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Author:

Sallai, Gaby

Title:

Interpreting doctoral engineering attrition: Investigating doctoral stress and coping, costs of persistence, and underlying structural causes of attrition

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

graduate students
engineering
engineering education
qualitative methods
interviews
coping
stress
costs
attrition
persistence
policy
qualifying exams
graduate school milestones
departmental reform
doctoral engineering students
COPE inventory
expectancy-value theory
systems approach
systems theory
content analysis
thematic analysis
maximum variation sampling
premature departure
mastering out

File:

Download gsallai_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Jacqueline O'Connor, Major Field Member
Catherine Berdanier, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Jessica Menold, Major Field Member
Shelley Stoffels, Outside Unit & Field Member