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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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Departmental Publications, Engineering Education [3]
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Scholarly Works, Engineering Education [69]
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Advancing Sustainable Development: Emerging Factors and Futures for the Engineering Field
(MDPI, 2023-05-11)This study set out to identify emerging trends in advancing engineering for sustainable development, supporting the engineering workforce to address wicked problems, and strengthening pathways between engineering education, ... -
Project-Based Learning Promotes Students' Perceived Relevance in an Engineering Statistics Course: A Comparison of Learning in Synchronous and Online Learning Environments
(Routledge, 2022-11)Understanding statistics is essential for engineers. However, statistics courses remain challenging for many students, as they find them rigid, abstract, and demanding. Prior research has indicated that using project-based ... -
Undergraduate students' knowledge outcomes and how these relate to their educational experiences: a longitudinal study of chemistry in two countries
(Springer, 2022-11)Are the ways of engaging with the world that students develop through higher education particular to bodies of knowledge they study? In this article, we examine how students' accounts of the discipline of chemistry in ... -
Investigating student approaches to scenario-based assessments of systems thinking
(Frontiers, 2022-12)The development of systems thinking is considered a critical skill set for addressing interdisciplinary problems. This skill set is particularly important in the field of engineering, where engineers are often tasked with ... -
Using eye gaze to reveal cognitive processes and strategies of engineering students when solving spatial rotation and mental cutting tasks
(American Society for Engineering Education, 2023-01)Background: Spatial problem-solving is an essential skill for success in many engineering disciplines; thus, understanding the cognitive processes involved could help inform the design of training interventions for students ... -
Perspectives on Moral Agency in Human-Robot Interaction
(ACM, 2023-03-13)Establishing when, how, and why robots should be considered moral agents is key for advancing human-robot interaction. For instance, whether a robot is considered a moral agent has significant implications for how researchers, ... -
2020 Engineering Education Annual Report
(Virginia Tech, 2020)This inaugural report documents the achievements of the Engineering Education Department in 2020. -
2021 Virginia Tech Engineering Education Annual Report
(Virginia Tech, 2021)This report documents the achievements of the Engineering Education Department in 2021. -
Engineering Education Funded Research Portfolio 2022-2023
(Virginia Tech, 2023)Whether developing a center for equity in graduate education; discovering natural language processing; or even developing a compassionate community of scholar practictioners, our faculty have received funding for a wide ... -
Student Outcomes from the Collective Design and Delivery of Culturally Relevant Engineering Outreach Curricula in Rural and Appalachian Middle Schools
(SAGE Publications, 2021)Middle school is a pivotal time for career choice, and research is rich with studies on how students perceive engineering, as well as corresponding intervention strategies to introduce younger students to engineering and ... -
The fallacy of “there are no candidates”: Institutional pathways of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino doctorate earners
(Wiley, 2023-01)Background: Despite many initiatives to improve graduate student and faculty diversity in engineering, there has been little or no change in the percentage of people from racially minoritized backgrounds in either of these ... -
Doctoral advisor selection processes in science, math, and engineering programs in the United States
(2023-01-24)Although advising relationships are key for doctoral student success, little research has addressed how they form. Understanding the formation of advising relationships can help contextualize their later development and ... -
Community-engaged heat resilience planning: Lessons from a youth smart city STEM program
(Elsevier, 2022-10-01)While recognition of the dangers of extreme heat in cities continues to grow, heat resilience remains a relatively new area of urban planning. One barrier to the creation and successful implementation of neighborhood-scale ... -
Engineering Deans’ Perspectives on the Current State of Faculty Development Programs in Engineering Education
(Tempus Publications, 2023-08-01)There is little literature exploring the needs of engineering faculty and the resources available at engineering colleges to support faculty development. Engineering deans are key stakeholders within institutions well-positioned ... -
Houselessness: Myth vs. Data
(The Arctic Institute, 2022-06-07)This brief draws on an ongoing remote ethnographic study examining how varying modes of housing insecurity are experienced by Alaskans. This includes: • an introduction to the term “houselessness,” which describes ... -
Building a Sustainable University-Wide Interdisciplinary Graduate Program to Address Disasters
(2022-08-23)Disasters continue to devastate communities across the globe, and recovery efforts require the cooperation and collaboration of experts and community members across disciplines [1-3]. The Disaster Resilience and Risk ... -
SAT patterns and engineering and computer science college majors: an intersectional, state-level study
(2022-11-05)Background Numerous efforts worldwide have been made to increase diversity in engineering and computer science (ECS), fields that pay well and promote upward mobility. However, in the United States (U.S.), females and ... -
Researching inequality in higher education: tracing changing conceptions and approaches over fifty years
(Springer, 2022-09)Fifty years ago, higher education globally had started to change radically in terms of the proportion of young people enrolled in the system as well as society's expectations for what this would deliver. From the outset, ... -
Promoting Equity by Scaling Up Summer Engineering Experiences: A Retrospective Reflection on Tensions and Tradeoffs
(Purdue University, 2021)A central challenge in engineering education is providing experiences that are appropriate for and accessible to underserved communities. However, to provide such experiences, we must better understand the process of ...
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