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University‐Based Engineering Research in the United States
Author(s) -
Kannankutty Nirmala,
Morgan Robert P.,
Strickland Donald E.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of engineering education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.896
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 2168-9830
pISSN - 1069-4730
DOI - 10.1002/j.2168-9830.1999.tb00437.x
Subject(s) - engineering research , perspective (graphical) , engineering education , survey research , engineering ethics , engineering , point (geometry) , engineering management , psychology , computer science , mathematics , applied psychology , telecommunications , geometry , artificial intelligence
This paper reports results from an NSF‐supported survey of a national probability sample of U.S. engineering faculty on the nature and organization of their research activities. We analyze how engineering faculty spend their time, the types of research faculty conduct, characteristics of that research, how that research has changed over time, and the involvement of students in engineering research, based upon the engineering discipline, institutional research intensiveness and age of the respondents. These data and results represent a perspective on university‐based engineering research activities from the point of view of active researchers across most of the engineering schools in the United States.