- Title
- Time is on my side : How do engineering academics spend their days - an international study
- Creator
- Aarrevaara, Timo; Dobson, Ian
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/59489
- Identifier
- vital:4911
- Identifier
- http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-84874165357&partnerID=40&md5=273621b5f81ffbff08b625aa9b1992e0
- Identifier
- ISSN:1446-2257
- Abstract
- This article uses empirical data from the international Changing Academic Profession (CAP) survey to establish similarities and differences in work patterns among the world's academic engineers. Overall working hours and the distribution of work between teaching, research and other activities are examined. Summary results indicate that in periods when classes are in session, engineering academics from South Korea and Hong Kong reported a longer working week than equivalent staff from other countries. Engineering academics from Mexico and South Africa spent the highest proportion of their time on teaching, whereas those from Argentina, China and Italy spent the highest proportion on research. The most likely reason for international differences in the length of the working week is that national systems (such as higher education) have been constructed from the individual histories and cultures in each country. © 2012 WIETE.
- Relation
- World Transactions on Engineering and Technology Education Vol. 10, no. 3 (2012), p. 184-191
- Rights
- Copyright 2012 WIETE
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Argentina; Empirical data; Higher education; Hong Kong; International studies; Mexico; Most likely; South Africa; South Korea; Work patterns; Working hours; Education; Equivalence classes; Professional aspects; Engineering research; 09 Engineering; 10 Technology; 13 Education
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