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Careers in the U.S. that require STEM knowledge have grown rapidly, reinforcing the need to develop a future workforce that is prepared to meet growing business needs and solve global challenges. Considering that there is a low number of students pursuing STEM degrees and the low percentages of minority students in the STEM pipeline, STEM education has been a focus of local and national education...
Construction projects approach design in different ways. While many consider design as the final built elements, the building process itself is often neglected. Construction projects contain intermittent operations that should be designed as well. This design is considerably different from conventional product design since the operation, without construction, is not tangible for students. Construction...
Engineers must be able to transfer knowledge from previous experiences in order to solve complex engineering tasks. Transfer of knowledge is described as “the learning process involved when a person learns to use previously acquired knowledge, skills, competence, or expertise in a new situation” Therefore, we sought to explore how previous engineering, design, and mathematics experiences impact the...
Women, people with disabilities, Blacks, Latinas and American Indians are considered underrepresented in engineering fields because they constitute a small portion of engineering students and the population of professional engineers in the United States. In order to increase underrepresented engineering degree recipients, it is necessary to provide opportunities for underrepresented students to develop...
What are the lived experiences of Black children that foster Engineer of 2020 attributes? Using a framework, which includes Community Cultural Wealth theory and the Engineer of 2020 attributes, the lived experiences of 8 middle school children were explored. In effort to identify these experiences, we build precious work and explore the ways that Black children describe their informal engineering...
How do transitioning underrepresented minority (URM) students evaluate their engineering ability? To investigate this question seven students in a summer pre-college program provided insight on their confidence in their abilities and were asked to recollect the experiences which helped them make sense of these developing identities. As part of a larger study to investigate the impact of a Midwestern...
This paper describes the design of an international symposium whereby design researchers and design educators from diverse disciplines form a learning partnership to advance design thinking. Concepts from three theoretical frameworks, the scholarship of integration, learning partnerships and complexity theory, were used to design interactions before, during, and after the symposium. This transformative...
Designing for others is a paramount focus of teaching user-centered engineering design. This paper presents a novel engineering design brief presented to undergraduate engineering students to design for extra-terrestrials scheduled to visit their collegiate campus. Through this alien-centered design approach, students are pushed to develop empathy for a group of users quite different from themselves...
Professional associations of engineering have recommended Service Learning environments to cultivate professional engineering skills. However, a report from ASEE published in 2012 showed that faculty did not consider these learning environments to be important. This study aims to understand the motivation of instructors of Service-Learning programs in engineering. The results can be used to propose...
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