@TechReport{	  it:2007-018,
  author	= {Robin Adams and Sally Fincher and Arnold Pears and Jonas
		  Boustedt and J{\"u}rgen B{\"o}rstler and Peter Dalenius and
		  Gunilla Eken and Tim Heyer and Andreas Jakobsson and Vanja
		  Lindberg and Bengt Molin and Jan Erik Mostr{\"o}m and
		  Mattias Wiggberg},
  title		= {What is the Word for ``Engineering'' in {S}wedish: Swedish
		  Students~ Conceptions of their Discipline},
  institution	= {Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University},
  year		= {2007},
  number	= {2007-018},
  month		= jun,
  abstract	= {Engineering education in Sweden ~ as in the rest of the
		  world ~ is experiencing a decline in student interest.
		  There are concerns about the ways in which students think
		  about engineering education, why they join an academic
		  programme in engineering, and why they persist in their
		  studies. In this context the aims of the Nationellt
		  {\"a}mnesdidaktiskt Centrum f{\"o}r Teknikutbildning i
		  Studenternas Sammanhang project (CeTUSS) is to investigate
		  the student experience and to identify and support a
		  continuing network of interested researchers, as well as in
		  building capacity for disciplinary pedagogic investigation.
		  
		  The Stepping Stones project brings together these interests
		  in a multi-researcher, multi-institutional study that
		  investigates how students and academic staff perceive
		  engineering in Sweden and in Swedish education. The first
		  results of that project are reported here. As this study is
		  situated uniquely in Swedish education, it allows for
		  exploration of ~a Swedish perspective~ on conceptions of
		  engineering. The Stepping Stones project was based on a
		  model of research capacity-building previously instantiated
		  in the USA and Australia (Fincher & Tenenberg, 2006). }
}