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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 [26]
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Research Methods for the Capstone to Work (C2W) Project
(2021-02-24)This report details the research methods (sites, sample, data collection instruments, data analysis, codebook, data profiles) for the NSF funded project "From School to Work: Understanding the Transition from Capstone ... -
Success Strategies: Words of Advice from New Engineers
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Person or thing oriented: A comparative study of individual differences of first-year engineering students and practitioners
(2020-02-07)Background: Engineering practice is meant to advance the human condition, yet curricula do not appear to fully promote the human-centered philosophy of engineering in implementation. The educational system may inadvertently ... -
Illuminating inequality in access: Variation in enrollment in undergraduate engineering programs across Virginia's high schools
(2020-10-06)Background Determining the root causes of persistent underrepresentation of different subpopulations in engineering remains a continued challenge. Because place-based variation of resource distribution is not random and ... -
The correlation between undergraduate student diversity and the representation of women of color faculty in engineering
(2020-10-21)Background Despite the critical role of faculty diversity in the persistence and academic experiences of undergraduate students as well as in the development of engineering innovations, women of color (WoC) faculty are ... -
Illuminating systematic differences in no job offers for STEM doctoral recipients
(2020-04-29)This study examines differences across demographic subgroups in the phenomenon of recent doctoral recipients seeking work but having no job offers for employment. Gender and race/ethnicity have been identified as two ... -
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)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 critical ... -
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 ...
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