Abstract
The first author investigated student motivation for an engineering design project by questionnaire survey at Anan National College of Technology (Anan Kosen) and Illinois University at Urbana-Champaign in 2006. The senior student motivation for the senior design project at Illinois University was higher than the third year student motivation for line trace car design project at Anan Kosen. The difference in student motivation between Illinois University and Anan Kosen was caused by career consciousness after graduation. In addition, Illinois University student more often discussed solution to engineering problems of special subjects, as compared with Anan Kosen students, Illinois University students usually make a concentrated effort to acquire useful practical expertise and skill in occupation after graduation. Thus cooperative education should be introduced so as to improve career consciousness by incorporating career education at an early stage such that freshman visit working alumni at manufacturing companies.
