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Our Mission: We advance the engineering profession by integrating research and teaching to impact learning and practice. Our Vision: We aspire to prepare students to be exceptional engineers and educators while serving as an international beacon for engineering and research.
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Scholarly Works, Department of Engineering Education [20]
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Outcome Expectations and Environmental Factors Associated with Engineering College-Going: A Case Study
(Purdue e-Pubs, 2020)Family, school, and community contexts each link to secondary school enrollment, yet these factors have been comparatively examined only in limited ways. A holistic examination of contextual factors will be particularly ... -
Development of the student course cognitive engagement instrument (SCCEI) for college engineering courses
(2020-05-19)Abstract Background Evidence shows that students who are actively engaged with learning materials demonstrate greater learning gains than those who are passively engaged. Indeed, cognitive engagement is often cited as a ... -
Evaluation of an Interview-Based Internship Class in the Construction Management Curriculum: A Case Study of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
(MDPI, 2020-04-16)Internships have been shown to be impactful tools to connect students’ learning in academia with real-world industrial needs. To help the students to get more out of their internship experience, some universities ... -
Predicting Spatial Visualization Problems’ Difficulty Level from Eye-Tracking Data
(MDPI, 2020-03-31)The difficulty level of learning tasks is a concern that often needs to be considered in the teaching process. Teachers usually dynamically adjust the difficulty of exercises according to the prior knowledge and abilities ... -
An Experiential Online Training Approach for Underrepresented Engineering and Technology Students
(MDPI, 2020-02-25)Workforce pipelines are essential to sustain a productive workforce in an increasingly competitive, high-tech environment. Advanced automation, sensors, materials and data analytics will increase the need for highly skilled ... -
Engineering Student's Ethical Awareness and Behavior: A New Motivational Model
(2017-08)Professional communities are experiencing scandals involving unethical and illegal practices daily. Yet it should not take a national major structure failure to highlight the importance of ethical awareness and behavior, ... -
Assessing systems thinking: A tool to measure complex reasoning through ill-structured problems
(2018-06)An increasingly important aim of higher education is to develop graduates capable of addressing complex, interdependent problems. Systems thinking is a critical interdisciplinary skill that describes the cognitive flexibility ... -
Characterizing capstone design teaching: A functional taxonomy
(2019-04)Background: Capstone design courses represent a critical juncture in students' development at the transition from school to work. However, few studies have systematically explored teaching in this context, leaving a ... -
The Effects Of Gender, Engineering Identification, And Engineering Program Expectancy On Engineering Career Intentions: Applying Hierarchical Linear Modeling (HLM) In Engineering Education Research
(Clute Institute, 2017-12)This study had three purposes and four hypotheses were tested. Three purposes: (1) To use hierarchical linear modeling (HLM) to investigate whether students’ perceptions of their engineering career intentions changed over ... -
Teaching Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Learning Barriers and Classroom Strategies
(ASEE, 2009)Educators have known for some time that simply putting students in teams is not sufficient to teach teamwork; instead, students need explicit instruction and guidance in teaming to work effectively. A similar principle ... -
MAKER: An Ethnography of Maker and Hacker Spaces Achieving Diverse Participation
(ASEE, 2017-06)Some have hailed the emergence of maker spaces as an opportunity to broaden participation of underrepresented groups in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) education, engaging participants in open, creative, ... -
Self-Organizing Units in an Interdisciplinary Course for Pervasive Computing Design
(ASEE, 2009-06)We conducted a case study of a design course that focused on bringing together students from engineering, industrial design, and marketing to use pervasive computing technologies to design, coordinate, and build a “smart” ... -
Development and Analysis of a Spiral Theory-based Cybersecurity Curriculum
(2017-01-09)Enhance cybersecurity learning experiences of students at Virginia Tech’s large engineering program -
Examining Students' Metacognitive Awareness Through Analysis of Student-generated Learning Responses
This work-in-progress provides a preliminary exploration of students’ metacognitive monitoring abilities by analyzing written self-evaluations of statics problems. Metacognitive approaches to learning encourage students ... -
A Longitudinal Study of the Dimensions of Disciplinary Culture to Enhance Innovation and Retention among Engineering Students
(2016-06)The U.S. engineering educational system has been generally slow in developing pedagogies that successfully promote innovative behaviors. Although numerous sources recognize the growing scope and complexity of challenges ... -
Disciplinary Influences on the Professional Identity of Civil Engineering Students: Starting the Conversation
(2016-06)As the discipline of civil engineering has evolved from an apprentice-based trade to a socially-engaged profession, the role of the civil engineer has responded to shifts within the ever-changing culture of society. These ... -
Student Persistence Through Uncertainty Toward Successful Creative Practice
(2016-06)To increase creative practice among students in engineering and other disciplines, an interdisciplinary instructor team developed a cross-college undergraduate course aimed at open ideation and creative inquiry. One skill ... -
Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in US Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line
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Definitions of Interdisciplinary Research: Toward Graduate-Level Interdisciplinary Learning Outcomes
(Johns Hopkins Univ Press, 2010)Combining the interdisciplinary studies (primarily humanities) literature with the content analysis of 129 successful National Science Foundation proposals written predominantly by science and engineering faculty members, ... -
Middle School Children's Thinking in Technology Education: A Review of Literature
(Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association; Virginia Tech. Digital Library and Archives, 2009)
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