Students’ Engagement and Perseverance in Three Innovative Undergraduate Programs in Engineering and Medicine
This article presents the initial results of an exploratory research whose general objective is to validate the predictors of engagement and perseverance, identified by a literature review, for students and professors in innovative programs in first cycle at the Université de Sherbrooke. More precisely, it is question of exploring quantitatively and qualitatively the characteristics of engagement and perseverance of the main actors of the program. Three innovative undergraduate programs at the University of Sherbrooke are examined : the baccalaureate in electrical engineering, the baccalaureate in computer engineering and the pre-doctorate in medicine. This article presents data from students’ questionnaires.