We examine the impact of tuition fees for long term students at the University of Konstanz. Applying duration analysis to examine how tuition fees influence when and how students finish their studies in six different majors, we find significant effects with respect to the hazard rates of the various ways of terminating one’s studies. Furthermore, we analyze how the probability of terminating on...

As the next generation of engineers, engineering students at the local level have specific views on what key issues should be addressed in the coming decades. Results of a University of Kansas survey completed by over 220 engineering students from sophomores to graduate students in seven engineering majors from five departments are reported, analyzed, and compared with the 14 Grand Challenges f...

Each year colleges, universities, corporations, and private organizations award scholarships recognizing students who demonstrate outstanding academic achievement, leadership ability, a commitment of service to others, exceptional talents, and involvement in extracurricular activities. Some scholarships provide important incentives for young people to pursue their careers and interests while ot...

Using data from roughly 27,800 undergraduate STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) majors in the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS), this research examines the relationship between race/ethnicity, gender and non-traditional student characteristics and online course enrollment. Hispanic and Black STEM majors were significantly less likely, and female STEM majors s...

The ambiguity in the title is intentional; the phrase ‘software driven’ refers both to the curriculum of the course and the students taking it. For the past three I years I have taught a sophomore level course at the University of Rochester on the mathematics of fractal images. The classroom I use is equipped with 25 50MHz 486 IBM compatible PCs, and an 8 foot overhead projector. Students takin...

With the implementation of national strategy “transportation power”, transportation major is facing transformation new engineering majors. Practical education an important link in training majors application-oriented universities and plays a vital role quality talent training. The upgrading traditional has promoted school-enterprise cooperation to integration industry education. Under backgroun...

We conducted a survey of high-ability college students and elicited beliefs about how their choice major, whether to complete degree, would affect an array future events: earnings, employment, marriage prospects, potential spousal characteristics, fertility. find that perceive large “returns” human capital not only in own earnings but also other dimensions (e.g., spouse’s fertility). evidence s...

Abstract. Solution of some boundary value problems and initial problems in unique ball leads to the convergence and sumability problems of Fourier series of given function by eigenfunctions of Laplace operator on a sphere spherical harmonics. Such a series are called as Fourier-Laplace series on sphere. There are a number of works devoted investigation of these expansions in different topologie...