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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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Faculty Works, Department of Engineering Education [12]
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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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