In this study, we explored engineering doctoral students' motivations for selecting their
research topic. The extent to whichindividuals are intrinsically or extrinsically motivated and …

Those graduate students known as returners, who have a gap of at least five years between
their undergraduate degree conferral and their return to school for a graduate degree, have …

In recent years, a number of researchers have studied returners in engineering graduate
programs; these are students who, after graduating with a bachelor's degree in engineering …

Confidence is a critical factor in the success of graduate students; those who are not
confident of their ability to succeed will have greater difficulties in persisting and graduating …

Understanding the decision-making process when students are considering graduate
school in engineering is important to institutions and to individual faculty who advise …