The primary objective of this report is to assess the role of work motivation on students' expectations. To be able to answer the research question two purposes are developed for this project. Firstly using the adapted attributes, to determine a collective ranking order of 20 motivational attributes and secondly, determine if there are any similarities or significant differences from the results of the survey and expectations. Further, the purpose of this study is to assess the rank of motivation attributes by the engineering students. This study is carried out among students of Maharaja Engineering College, Tamilnadu, India, who are assumed to be future Engineers. The survey is to get the response on what the students feel the best attributes that could motivate them among a list of twenty motivational attributes. By this method, the study sets to identify the most ranked attributes among the twenty motivational attributes.