Predicting Engineering Students' Desire to Address Climate Change in Their Careers: An Exploratory Study Using Responses from a U.S. National Survey

Autor/inn/en	Shealy, Tripp; Katz, Andrew; Godwin, Allison
Titel	Predicting Engineering Students' Desire to Address Climate Change in Their Careers: An Exploratory Study Using Responses from a U.S. National Survey
Quelle	In: Environmental Education Research, 27 (2021) 7, S.1054-1079 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1350-4622
DOI	10.1080/13504622.2021.1921112
Schlagwörter	Engineering Education; Undergraduate Students; Student Attitudes; Climate; Predictor Variables; Social Responsibility; Student Characteristics; Majors (Students); Careers; Beliefs; Student Interests; Ecology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ingenieurausbildung; Schülerverhalten; Klima; Prädiktor; Soziale Verantwortung; Career; Karriere; Belief; Glaube; Studieninteresse; Ökologie
Abstract	More engineering students are needed to address climate change in their careers. These students are necessary because engineering includes designing and building machines, structures, and components that contribute large portions of society's carbon emissions. We surveyed a national sample of undergraduate engineering students (n = 4605) in their last semester of college about their desire to address climate change in their careers and the factors that predicted these responses. Possible variables for wanting to address climate change in their career included course topics, co-curricular experiences, climate knowledge, political affiliation, religion, and other demographics. The strongest factors that predicted engineering students' desire to address climate change in their career were related to a feeling of personal responsibility to deal with environmental problems, recognizing climate change as a technical (not social) issue, believing climate change is caused by burning fossil fuels and livestock production, and their engineering discipline. Students majoring in environmental and architectural engineering were more likely to want to address climate change in their careers than others. Previous known factors to increase motivation for climate action like course topics, political affiliation, student organization participation, undergraduate research experience, and environmental volunteering were not strong predictors among engineering undergraduate students. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01