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Engineering is inherently an innovative profession with design at the center of its core practices. Over the last decade, its importance for engineering students has heightened with the emergence of policy efforts and the rise of collegiate programs developed to support student innovation. Yet, research on how engineering students approach and experience innovation has been limited. During this special...
As the worldwide demand for cybersecurity-trained professionals continues to grow, the need to understand and define what cybersecurity education really means at the college or university level. Given the relative infancy of these efforts to define undergraduate cybersecurity programs, the panelists will present different perspectives on how such programs can be structured. They will then engage with...
This special session/workshop seeks to encourage Zui Quan pedagogy and risk taking in everyday classroom practice. The term “Zui Quan” refers to a style of Chinese martial arts that is loosely translated as “drunken fist” or “drunken boxing.” To the untrained eye, the practitioner appears uncoordinated, untrained, intoxicated, and vulnerable. However, those trained in Zui Quan are capable of powerful...
The Multiple Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development (MIDFIELD) is expanding from 14 to about 100 institutions across the USA. This special session aims to introduce participants to MIDFIELD, explore how to conduct research with such a resource, and explain how participants can access MIDFIELD.
One of the first artifacts produced by a massive multi-year education transformation effort has been the launching of a one-of-a-kind program focused on transdisciplinary studies that goes well beyond conventional notions of disciplines. One of the main thrusts of the transformation was to intentionally and repeatedly integrate STEM and Humanities learning and outcome assessment of skills and abilities...
Preliminary findings from the Professional Engineering Pathways Study, a study of career placement processes of undergraduate engineering majors at six diverse US institutions will be presented, and small group discussions guiding the application of the findings to the institutions represented by the audience will be led.
The FIE conference has throughout its history emphasized work at the frontiers of education. This pre-conference workshop reflects a policy shift at the National Science Foundation, Department of Education, and Department of Defense, and others who have adopted the I-Corps™ model to extend the longevity and the value of initially funded projects. This cutting-edge workshop introduces the core features...
Engineering education researchers focus on research, putting research into practice, and creating innovative practice. These foci require meaningful communication that elicits a desired response (e.g. adoption of innovation). Innovation advocates and change agents know that communication is critical to a project's success. Without expertise in rhetoric, communications present significant challenges,...
The purpose of this paper is to describe a special session intended to help instructors better understand the difference between fixed versus growth mindset and how instructional approaches can implicitly or explicitly promote one or the other. Originating with Carol Dweck, individuals with a fixed mindset believe that a specific ability or intelligence is innate and fixed. In contrast, individuals...
According to change literature, the multiplicity of levels and structures that exist within an organization makes organizational change a difficult process. Similarly, many challenges face any attempt to foster change in engineering education, due to the various layers that make up the field. Looking at the evolution of engineering education research (EER) as a field and the individual pathways of...
Data literacy education provides an opportunity for libraries and departments to collaborate to meet the rapidly changing needs of students, faculty, and researcher. Expertise is required and expected in so many areas that navigating the changing climate can be overwhelming. However, a large midwestern university has developed a library-facilitated initiative that delivers instructional content to...
We describe a sophomore level course that is foremost a comprehensive treatment of logic design, a mandatory topic in many electrical and computer engineering curriculums, but almost equally important, because of the open ended design content, this course serves as the dress rehearsal for what students will encounter in their required senior capstone project. Course outcomes and goals include the...
The dominant mode for teaching engineers about design thinking is project-based learning. We give students things to design — individually or in teams, and then evaluate the products they produce. But another way to learn about engineering design is to study real-world examples. Case studies provide one way to do so. Cases have been used in schools of business for many years; the case study method...
An educational incubator in Purdue University's Polytechnic Institute has been experimenting with highly integrated methods to facilitate, assess, and evaluate student learning. Comprised of transdisciplinary faculty and students, one of the basic covenants is to intentionally and repeatedly balance Humanities and STEM concepts by way of open-ended problems affecting humanity and the planet. The learning...
At FIE 2002, 13 engineering educators assembled to address a variety of topics and predict the “Future of Engineering Education.” Larry Shuman organized and moderated the session [1]. Topics included the changing demographics and economics of the country, technological advances, the engineering pipeline, the state of the University and forces driving change, engineering as a liberal art, the accreditation...
This paper proposed a workshop to introduce the use of computational tools and methods to analyze educational data. The workshop will demonstrate three different contexts in which these tools can be used to visualize and characterize patterns within educational data, and validate them using statistical techniques. Participants in this workshop will have the opportunity to learn how to implement these...
This WIP focusses on one component of our updated first year engineering program (FYEP), a student-owned laptop requirement. Requiring students to bring laptops will enable all students to practice the skills learned during their first-year engineering classes. Other engineering instructors will also be able to require students to bring and use laptops in their courses. Infusing the use of laptops...
Phenomenography has been increasingly used to explore important questions and complex phenomena in engineering education. However, as a relatively new research method (it was introduced in 1981) with unique and nuanced methodological underpinnings, it is not always well understood. In this special session, we will provide an overview of phenomenography methodology. In addition, participants will gain...
This work-in-progress paper describes an exploratory investigation of the relationship between Grit and retention of engineering students. Grit is a noncognitive trait that psychologists have used to predict success more accurately than cognitive traits like intelligence. We administered the Grit Scale in a first-year engineering design project course (n = 465). Using binary logistic regression, we...
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