Findings on Motivation and the Environmental Awareness and Practice of Future Engineers in Zagreb

Damir Milos and Filip Cicek ()
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Damir Milos: Catholic University of Croatia
Filip Cicek: Center for Education and Social Research

Interdisciplinary Description of Complex Systems - scientific journal, 2014, vol. 12, issue 2, 119-136

Abstract: This article is the result of a survey conducted on first year students of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture in Zagreb. Heavy particles in the focus of this article are intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of students and their ecological awareness and practice. Accordingly, we wanted to examine which form of motivation was prevalent in students when choosing a career in engineering and the degree of environmental awareness and practice of those students. The results show that extrinsic elements of motivation were more important to students in terms of their future career. When it comes to environmental awareness and practices, results show a higher level of environmental awareness and practices among students. Conclusively, it can be noted that the dominance of extrinsic motivation for a career does not compromise the interest in environmental issues or environmental practices.

Keywords: extrinsic and intrinsic motivation; ecological awareness and practice; mechanical engineering students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I21 I23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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