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Eccles et al.'s ‘Expectancy-Value Model of Achievement Motivation’ (2000) states that ‘an individual's choice, persistence, and performance can be explained by their beliefs about how well they will do on the activity and the extent to which they value the activity’ [1]. This paper employs Eccles et al.'s theoretical framework to identify performance barriers and facilitators for Scottish college...
The primary goals of this special session are to assist participants with developing strategies for incorporating an engineering design environment into regular pre-college (K-12 in the US) classroom routines, and to develop an engineering design approach to structuring learning activities. Our core philosophy is that the practice of engineering design reinforces and provides a method for integrating...
This special session presents applications of the philosophy of engineering to the understandings of engineering design. The philosophical basis of engineering provides particular insight into framing and interpreting design experiences. This interactive sessions/workshop aims to discuss and analyze engineering design and its place in engineering education. This includes examining perspectives from...
New information and communication technologies (ICTs) are offering unprecedented opportunities and challenges for innovating in a collaborative way at the academic and research realm. With the purpose of taking advantage of these opportunities, a project called "Parallel Virtual Workshop (PVW)" has been set in a Master's Program to pursue academic internationalization, to provide professional...
This paper describes work in progress to develop and evaluate a three-week program focusing on academic language and culture for international students beginning a two-year program of study in the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. We provide a rationale and theoretical background for the program, describe the curriculum, and summarize...
A capacity for self-directed learning (SDL) and lifelong learning is widely recognized as an important outcome for today's engineering graduates. Key to SDL is the development of self-reflection abilities, which enable students to critically evaluate learning tasks and contexts, to adjust and adapt their self-regulatory processes to new environments, and to maintain motivation and persistence in the...
This work-in-progress paper utilizes a graphic narrative format to depict findings from the first year of a multi-year project on conceptual change in faculty development. Faculty development workshops are often designed to share best practices that participants can implement at their home institutions. However, the influence of these workshops on participants is rarely studied beyond the use of short...
This paper introduces two new categories of players, an equalization player, with the goal to minimize the score gap between the opponents, and a variation enhancement player, with the goal to maximize the same. In addition, a complementary player type is added to the classic max-player game, called the min-player, along with a mathematical formalization of basic strategies, yielding a new algorithm...
A comparative case study examined two teams for instances of Productive Disciplinary Engagement (PDE) as they completed a complex, virtual process development project. Discourse from team meetings was analyzed to interpret how engagement unfolds, specifically classifying engagement in two dimensions: School vs. Engineering World, and task co-production vs. knowledge co-construction. Teams were found...
Many engineering programs have recently seen a significant increase in enrollment and educators have turned to alternative teaching strategies to help cope with this increase. One such approach is to incorporate Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA) led studios to complement lectures. We studied a chemical engineering department that has implemented a studio approach that provides students an interactive...
Currently, there is a movement in precollege education to include engineering in the science curriculum. In the classroom, one manner of adding engineering to the precollege curricula is through STEM integration in science classrooms. This research project builds on the STEM integration research paradigm through a careful merging of the disciplines of STEM. There are two main types of STEM integration:...
Providing feedback on design projects to other students (peer feedback) helps students develop a better understanding of design and helps students practice providing feedback, which is an engineering professional skill. In this study, we analyzed first-year engineering students' feedback on sample student design work in order to understand the characteristics of the feedback students provide and highlight...
This paper presents the design, implementation, and reflections of students and faculty of an innovative integrated course (taught in Spring 2012) that combined seemingly disparate topics from engineering and the humanities. The primary goal of the course was to promote the growth of intrinsically motivated students who internalize the value of their technical work, connect their technical work to...
Engineering is becoming an increasingly global profession, requiring interaction with diverse sets of people from different countries, cultures, and traditions. This diversity introduces more social and ethical complexity to the profession and highlights the importance of enabling engineers to work collaboratively and develop strong ethical decision-making skills. This study examines the relationship...
Over the past two decades, one of the key changes in Engineering curricula has been in the emphasis placed on the development of personal transferable skills. Employers also profess to seek these competencies when making recruiting decisions. Such skills include the ability to learn through collaboration and through meaningful critical reflection on one's own performance, both as an individual and...
Learning of threshold concepts in courses such as statics has traditionally been a difficult and critical juncture for students in engineering. Research and other systematic efforts to improve the teaching of statics in recent years range widely, from development of courseware and assessment tools to experiential and other "hands-on" learning techniques. This paper reports a portion of the...
Higher education institutions often describe goals for the student experience as a whole as well as define and guide the academic requirements to earn a degree. This paper seeks to ignite discussions on how lean engineering principles can improve the collegiate student's academic or educational experience. We explain how the principles that drive lean engineering can be operationalized in the context...
Success in doctoral education has been studied from many theoretical and practical perspectives, but very few studies focus specifically on student motivation. In practice, graduate schools usually try to evaluate applicants' motivation in the admission process, assuming they are able to identify the initial motivation that would predict a successful doctoral path. The aim of this study is to bring...
Part of a large-scale study on Hispanic engineering students at a university on the U.S./Mexico border, this paper focuses on participants' reported use of language in learning activities in engineering. Specifically, we call attention to the meaning-making resources that engineering undergraduates brought to learning activities. Semiotic (or meaning-making) resources include oral and written language...
The U.S. recently adopted a post-grant opposition procedure to encourage third parties to challenge the validity of newly granted patents by providing relevant prior patents that are missed during patent examination (i.e., missing citations). In this paper, we propose a recommendation system for missing citations for newly granted patents. The recommendation system, based on the patent citation network...
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