Brent Lievers (@wblievers.bsky.social)

An analysis of doctoral prestige and faculty composition in Canadian mechanical engineering programs Faculty positions at institutions of higher education are limited resources for which there is a high level of competition. Previous studies have shown that a hierarchy of prestige exists within academia which leads to 80% of those positions being filled by the doctoral graduates from only 20% of institutions. The goal of the current study is to determine whether such a hierarchy also exists within Canadian mechanical engineering programs and to consider other demographic differences within their faculty complements. Information on over 1100 faculty members from the 38 accredited Canadian... https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0344491