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student, for example, about program philosophy—engineering up front,
availability of team design activities, etc., and about student outcomes
in terms of retention, years to degree completion and securing jobs at
graduation.

14. NSF should collect and/or fund collection, perhaps through
ASEE or the Engineering Workforce Commission, of comprehen-
sive data by engineering department/school on program philoso-
phy and student outcomes such as, but not exclusively, student re-
tention rates by gender and ethnicity, common reasons why students
leave, where they go, percent of entering freshman that graduate,
time to degree, and information on jobs and admission to graduate
school.

REFERENCE

Busch-Vishniac, I., and J. Jarosz. 2004. Can diversity in the undergraduate engineering
population be enhanced through curricular change? Journal of Women in Science and
Technology 10(3).

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