These future engineers would need an appreciation of society's environmental concerns, a commitment to the solution of environmental problems and the interpersonal skills to work effectively in groups towards their solution. It would therefore be of serious concern if the Canadian engineering schools were unable to attract, or maybe retain, those students whose personality preferences would dispose them to be good communicators, outgoing, creative and naturally attuned to consider the human aspects of any situation. This paper summarises the first year results for the full seven-year cohort and presents choice of discipline and graduation results for the first five years of the total cohort. The final part of the project is a survey of the job satisfaction of the graduated professional engineers which will begin next year. Thus the MBTI describes sixteen possible types such as INTJ, ENFP, etc. which result from the dynamic interplay of these four preferences.
All types are good, all types are normal, and none is superior to the others.
However, the preferences of one type may match the demands of particular situations better than the preferences of other types. Lastly, some people gather only enough information to make a decision, then stay on a direct path towards that goal whereas others are more open to changing situations and new developments which might require changing strategies or setting new goals. The sixteen MBTI types for a group of respondents are usually displayed as a 4X4 arrangement known as a type table. A typical SRTT output is shown at Table 2. The SRTT computer software uses 2X2 chi square tests to check for significant differences between the two distributions.