Jarvie-Eggart, M. E., & Singer, A. M., & Mathews, J. (2020, June), Parent and Family Influence on First-year Engineering Major Choice  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line . 10.18260/1-2--35035

\bibitem{asee_peer_35035}
  Jarvie-Eggart, M. E., \& Singer, A. M., \& Mathews, J. (2020, June), \emph{Parent and Family Influence on First-year Engineering Major Choice}
  Paper presented at 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line .
  10.18260/1-2--35035

Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, Amanda Marie Singer, and Jason Mathews.  "Parent and Family Influence on First-year Engineering Major Choice".  2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2020.  https://peer.asee.org/35035 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_35035}
  Michelle E. Jarvie-Eggart, Amanda Marie Singer, and Jason Mathews.
  "Parent and Family Influence on First-year Engineering Major Choice".
  \emph{2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual On line , 2020, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2020.
  https://peer.asee.org/35035 Internet.  14 Dec, 2024

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - AbstractThe choice of a career or profession is a developmental process [1] that is influenced by a diverse set of factors including familial influences [1-12]. Parental career path [5] and perception of other career fields [6] have been shown to influence student career choice. The research presented in this paper focuses on the links between parental and other family members’ engineering or STEM occupations and engineering major choice, as well as whether this effect has any differences by gender. 

In this study, 158 first year engineering students from a public midwestern technical university were surveyed to determine major, deciding factors in major selection, as well as if any family member or mentor had a career in an engineering discipline or STEM fields. This research determined that 63% of the students surveyed had at least one family member that had a career in engineering. Differences in the parental careers of male and female students will also be discussed in the paper.  

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TI  - Parent and Family Influence on First-year Engineering Major Choice
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