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A Study To Determine The Cultural Awareness Of Engineering Students, Gordon P. Foreman
A Study To Determine The Cultural Awareness Of Engineering Students, Gordon P. Foreman
Undergraduate Honors Capstone Projects
Origins of the Study
As an engineering student in the Honors Program, I am continually faced with the stereotype of engineering students as people with no interest in social or cultural affairs and no consideration of things which cannot be tied down and measured. I decided to test this conception as best I could, even to comparing engineering students quantitatively to natural resources, history, and business majors. I attempted to get number comparisons for the index of relative awarenesses of culture. I suppose that only an engineering student would have the temerity to try to attach numerical values to something …