High-quality engineering design requires an understanding of how the resulting engineered artifact interacts with society, the natural environment, and other aspects of context. This study examines how first-year engi...
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High-quality engineering design requires an understanding of how the resulting engineered artifact interacts with society, the natural environment, and other aspects of context. This study examines how first-year engineering undergraduates approached two engineering design tasks. We focused on how much students considered contextual factors during problem-scoping, a critical part of the design process. As part of a larger, longitudinal study, we collected data from 160 students at four U.S. institutions. Students varied in their consideration of each design task's context, and women's responses were more likely to be context-oriented than men's. Overall, context-orientation was positively correlated between the two design tasks, despite differences in data collection and analysis. Having found that beginning engineering students, particularly women, are sensitive to important contextual factors, we suggest that efforts to broaden participation in engineering should consider legitimizing and fostering context-oriented approaches to engineering earlier in the curriculum.
This full research paper uses narrative inquiry to examine the emergent `teaching Toolbox' of a faculty member in an electrical and computer engineering department amid the backdrop of increasing class sizes. Four...
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This full research paper uses narrative inquiry to examine the emergent `teaching Toolbox' of a faculty member in an electrical and computer engineering department amid the backdrop of increasing class sizes. Four years ago, this ECE department received an NSF RED grant (Revolutionizing engineering Departments) to enact large-scale curricular and culture change in the department over five years. The work under the grant has uncovered faculty-driven pedagogies that had formerly been at the periphery of the values held by the department - but did not receive much attention prior to the award. We use narrative inquiry to investigate the experiences of one electrical and computer engineering professor through a single case study. Our case study comprises multiple reflexive interviews contextualized within the history of the department through institutional documents and department meeting notes. This work is focused on the emergent pedagogical innovations one professor has enacted to [at least] maintain, [at most] improve, class engagement and participation as class sizes have increased. These pedagogical innovations reveal the multiple ways in which a professor has adapted their teaching practice to the institutional and departmental changes brought on in the past decade.
Academic dishonesty is nothing new, yet it is particularly disturbing to find among engineering students, whose professional lives need to be guided by the highest ethical standards. Moral philosophy may illuminate so...
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This paper classifies SCORM model into individual modules and proposes the rule of object modeling to a UML class diagram. We verify the validity of the mapping technique proposed in this paper by analyzing and design...
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Presently there is a need to develop more effective ways to integrate experimental design into the engineering curriculum. To address this need, we are developing virtual laboratories that provide students a capstone ...
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A summer program, intended to tap the talent of high school students who have the capability to succeed in college, but are currently not on a college bound path, has been developed. The courses in the program consist...
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A summer program, intended to tap the talent of high school students who have the capability to succeed in college, but are currently not on a college bound path, has been developed. The courses in the program consist of a merging of arts and media with engineering. The courses rely on a combination of lecture, hands-on class work, and predominately a project which requires significant student effort and time. Both quantitative and qualitative assessment methods were used to evaluate the program on its stated goals and objectives. Quantitative methods included pre-and post course content testing and attitude surveys as well as a learning styles assessments.
engineering education research is a diverse, rapidly-evolving, international field in which scholars apply the methods of educational research to address a variety of issues pertaining to teaching and learning in engi...
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engineering education research is a diverse, rapidly-evolving, international field in which scholars apply the methods of educational research to address a variety of issues pertaining to teaching and learning in engineering. As the field has grown, so has the need for a standardized terminology and an updated taxonomy to map and communicate research initiatives. Refining a U.S-centric taxonomy is the focus of this workshop. Participants will engage in activities to reflect on a draft taxonomy and offer suggestions to refine it. Participants are encouraged to bring a computer, and interested participants at any experience level are encouraged to join this dialogue.
This research proposes a comprehensive model-based cyber-physical systems (CPS) design and development environment for undergraduate cyber engineering curriculum. CPSs are characterized by usability, dependability, an...
This research proposes a comprehensive model-based cyber-physical systems (CPS) design and development environment for undergraduate cyber engineering curriculum. CPSs are characterized by usability, dependability, and tight development time, and require addressing key questions related to security and performance. The traditional deterministic modeling approach becomes insufficient when multiple CPS models are combined, thus the proposed research aims to develop reliable fault-tolerant CPS models using various modeling techniques. The goal is to prepare cyber engineering courses for future generation CPS design, incorporating data-driven learning, and supporting evolving trends in model-based CPS design, while fostering collaboration with other institutions.
A critical skill in engineering education research is the ability to formulate "good" research questions. As David Hilbert states, "he who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind see...
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A critical skill in engineering education research is the ability to formulate "good" research questions. As David Hilbert states, "he who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks for the most part in vain". Issues researchers need to consider in formulating research questions include: what is the nature of the phenomenon, will this study have implications for theory or practice, and who is the audience for this research. A good research question will be timely, focused, generative, and align with disciplinary research design principles.
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