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Engineering and Technology (E&T) are considered as future job fields, especially in Europe, where human resources and innovative research are regarded as key factors of economical success (European Commission 2008). However, only a minority of young people plans a career in E&T (Becker 2009). For instance, Germany currently lacks 36,000 engineers (Koppel 2011).
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Thaler, A. (2012). Interdisciplinarities – Students’ Perception of Interdisciplinary Engineering Education in Europe. In: Béraud, A., Godfroy, AS., Michel, J. (eds) GIEE 2011: Gender and Interdisciplinary Education for Engineers. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-982-4_16
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