“…Declining graduation numbers and poor academic achievement of engineering students has become a major concern in universities (López et al, 2020;Jove et al, 2018). Existing research conducted on students at higher education institutions (universities) have indicated that there is a link between student attitudes and academic achievement, primarily in the education domains of business, finance, accounting, arithmetic, linguistics, English, and communication (Ali et al, 2009;Bhowmik and Banerjee, 2012;Boyd et al, 2000;Brasfield et al, 1992;Caballero et al, 2007;Cheung and Kan, 2002;Christensen et al, 2012;Didia and Hasnat, 1998;Fakeye, 2010;López et al, 2020;Jove et al, 2018). Little is known about the relationship between attitudes of engineering students and its effect on academic performance, which could possibly be the cause of declining academic performance and huge gender gaps in the field of engineering.…”