An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States

Engineering

Author: Coggeshall, Porter E.; Lindzey, Gardner; Jones, Lyle V.
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 9780309033367
eISBN Pdf: 9780309569521
Place of publication: United States
Year of digital publication: 1982
Month: January
Pages: 206
DDC: 378
Language: English

An Assessment of Research-Doctorate Programs in the United States: Engineering
Copyright
Acknowledgments
Preface
Contents
I Origins of Study and Selection of Programs
- PRIOR ATTEMPTS TO ASSESS QUALITY IN GRADUATE EDUCATION
- DEVELOPMENT OF STUDY PLANS
- SELECTION OF DISCIPLINES AND PROGRAMS TO BE EVALUATED
II Methodology
- PROGRAM SIZE
- CHARACTERISTICS OF GRADUATES
- REPUTATIONAL SURVEY RESULTS
- UNIVERSITY LIBRARY SIZE
- RESEARCH SUPPORT
- PUBLICATION RECORDS
- ANALYSIS AND PRESENTATION OF THE DATA
III Chemical Engineering Programs
IV Civil Engineering Programs
V Electrical Engineering Programs
VI Mechanical Engineering Programs
VII Summary and Discussion
- SUMMARY OF THE RESULTS
- CORRELATIONS AMONG MEASURES
- ANALYSIS OF THE SURVEY RESPONSE
- INTERPRETATION OF REPUTATIONAL SURVEY RATINGS
- COMPARISON WITH RESULTS OF THE ROOSE-ANDERSEN STUDY
- FUTURE STUDIES
Minority Statement
Appendixes
- APPENDIX A LETTER TO INSTITUTIONAL COORDINATORS
  - INSTRUCTIONS
- APPENDIX B SURVEY OF EARNED DOCTORATES
- APPENDIX C LETTER TO EVALUATORS
  - INSTRUCTIONS
- APPENDIX D THE ARL LIBRARY INDEX
- APPENDIX E FACULTY RESEARCH SUPPORT
  - R&D EXPENDITURES
- APPENDIX F DATA ON PUBLICATION RECORDS
  - VI. OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS
    - VII. THE INFLUENCE METHODOLOGY
- APPENDIX G CONFERENCE ON THE ASSESSMENT OF QUALITY OF GRADUATE EDUCATION PROGRAMS
  - SUMMARY
- APPENDIX H PLANNING COMMITTEE FOR THE STUDY OF THE QUALITY OF RESEARCH-DOCTORATE PROGRAMS
- APPENDIX I REGION AND STATE CODES FOR THE UNITED STATES AND POSSESSIONS (and U.S. Government)