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View article: Leveraging Generative Text Models and Natural Language Processing to Perform Traditional Thematic Data Analysis
Leveraging Generative Text Models and Natural Language Processing to Perform Traditional Thematic Data Analysis Open
We explore the possibility of using natural language processing (NLP) and generative artificial intelligence (GAI) to streamline the process of thematic analysis (TA) for qualitative research. We followed traditional TA phases to demonstra…
View article: Advancing Qualitative Analysis in Professional Disaster and Risk Communication: A Comparative Study of an Openai Chatgpt 3.5 Model-Enabled Method for Processing Complex Public Discourse
Advancing Qualitative Analysis in Professional Disaster and Risk Communication: A Comparative Study of an Openai Chatgpt 3.5 Model-Enabled Method for Processing Complex Public Discourse Open
View article: Engineering Faculty Members' Thinking on Reshaping Assessment in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence
Engineering Faculty Members' Thinking on Reshaping Assessment in the Age of Generative Artificial Intelligence Open
View article: Engineering students' interests in nonprofit and public policy careers: Applying a data‐driven approach to identifying contributing factors
Engineering students' interests in nonprofit and public policy careers: Applying a data‐driven approach to identifying contributing factors Open
Background Engineering students have an array of career opportunities they can pursue. Some of these opportunities will place them in different sectors of the economy. Whereas many may want to pursue careers in the private/corporate sector…
View article: Skill Development of Engineering and Physical Science Doctoral Students: Understanding the Role of Advisor, Faculty, and Peer Interactions
Skill Development of Engineering and Physical Science Doctoral Students: Understanding the Role of Advisor, Faculty, and Peer Interactions Open
Our research paper examines the role of climate (e.g., interactions with others) in the skill development of engineering and physical science doctoral students. Skill development in graduate school occurs related to students' primary fundi…
View article: Stumbling Our Way Through Finding a Better Prompt: Using GPT-4 to Analyze Engineering Faculty’s Mental Models of Assessment
Stumbling Our Way Through Finding a Better Prompt: Using GPT-4 to Analyze Engineering Faculty’s Mental Models of Assessment Open
In this full research paper, we discuss the benefits and challenges of using GPT-4 to perform qualitative analysis to identify faculty's mental models of assessment. Assessments play an important role in engineering education. They are use…
View article: Paradigm Shift? Preliminary Findings of Engineering Faculty Members’ Mental Models of Assessment in the Era of Generative AI
Paradigm Shift? Preliminary Findings of Engineering Faculty Members’ Mental Models of Assessment in the Era of Generative AI Open
The emergence of generative artificial intelligence (GAI) has started to introduce a fundamental reexamination of established teaching methods. These GAI systems offer a chance for both educators and students to reevaluate their academic e…
View article: From Manual Coding to Machine Understanding: Students' Feedback Analysis
From Manual Coding to Machine Understanding: Students' Feedback Analysis Open
In this study, we evaluate the use of generative AI (GAI) models for qualitative coding of open-ended student responses, compared to traditional natural language processing (NLP) methods. The main objective was to explore an in-house GAI m…
View article: Inspiring Sustainability in Undergraduate Engineering Programs
Inspiring Sustainability in Undergraduate Engineering Programs Open
The number of engineers who are transitioning into environmental sustainability careers is growing, though a gap still exists between the supply and demand. This presents an opportunity for undergraduate engineering students to fulfill the…
View article: Inspiring Sustainability in Undergraduate Engineering Programs
Inspiring Sustainability in Undergraduate Engineering Programs Open
The number of engineers who are transitioning into environmental sustainability careers is growing, though a gap still exists between supply and demand. This presents an opportunity for undergraduate engineering students to fulfill the dem…
View article: Where Political Affiliation and Sustainability Meet: A Study of Undergraduate Engineering Students' Career Choices
Where Political Affiliation and Sustainability Meet: A Study of Undergraduate Engineering Students' Career Choices Open
Sustainability is becoming increasingly important in various industries, and engineers have a crucial role to play in designing and implementing sustainable solutions. We explored in this study whether students' sustainability-related care…
View article: Using Generative Text Models to Create Qualitative Codebooks for Student Evaluations of Teaching
Using Generative Text Models to Create Qualitative Codebooks for Student Evaluations of Teaching Open
Feedback is a critical aspect of improvement. Unfortunately, when there is a lot of feedback from multiple sources, it can be difficult to distill the information into actionable insights. Consider student evaluations of teaching (SETs), w…
View article: Figurative Language in Computer Education: Evidence from YouTube Instructional Videos
Figurative Language in Computer Education: Evidence from YouTube Instructional Videos Open
Educators are utilizing both traditional and novel electronic methods in teaching, including web-based modalities. According to existing literature, Web 2.0 in general and YouTube videos specifically are increasingly utilized in education.…
View article: Using Natural Language Processing to Facilitate Student Feedback Analysis
Using Natural Language Processing to Facilitate Student Feedback Analysis Open
In engineering education ecosystems, community members produce text through myriad activities both inside and outside of the classroom in teaching and research settings. In many of these cases, there is an abundance of text available to ed…
View article: Factors Associated with Collaboration Networks in ASEE Conference Papers
Factors Associated with Collaboration Networks in ASEE Conference Papers Open
Research collaborations are essential to advance rigorous scholarship, perform transformative science, and accelerate engineering education innovation. With this in mind, the engineering education community should continue investigating an…
View article: Your Views Can Be My Views: Understanding Differences in Paradigms Held by Traditionally Marginalized Students in Engineering
Your Views Can Be My Views: Understanding Differences in Paradigms Held by Traditionally Marginalized Students in Engineering Open
Many attempts have been made in recent decades to make higher education and engineering more inclusive, however, representation of traditionally marginalized populations in engineering is still lacking.Part of the problem is that the cultu…
View article: Engineering Ethics in Engineering Design Courses: A Preliminary Investigation
Engineering Ethics in Engineering Design Courses: A Preliminary Investigation Open
Engineering design entails countless decisions. A subset of those decisions involves ethical dimensions. While the answers to those decisions may not be self-evident, practice and education can help improve decision quality of engineers du…
View article: What engineering employers want: An analysis of technical and professional skills in engineering job advertisements
What engineering employers want: An analysis of technical and professional skills in engineering job advertisements Open
Background Engineering curricula are built around faculty and accreditors' perceptions of what knowledge, skills, and abilities graduates will need in engineering careers. However, the people making these decisions may not be fully aware o…
View article: Using Chatbots as Smart Teaching Assistants for First-Year Engineering Students
Using Chatbots as Smart Teaching Assistants for First-Year Engineering Students Open
As the artificial intelligence (AI) field advances, more research areas within AI are emerging including machine learning, neural networks, fuzzy systems, and much more. In the last decade, chatbot technology has emerged as a new area of A…
View article: Promoting Research Quality to Study Mental Models of Ethics and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Engineering
Promoting Research Quality to Study Mental Models of Ethics and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in Engineering Open
This paper seeks to identify and share research quality considerations associated with studying engineering faculty members' and engineering practitioners' mental models of ethics and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in engineering. …
View article: WIP: Faculty Use of Metaphors When Discussing Assessment
WIP: Faculty Use of Metaphors When Discussing Assessment Open
This Work-in-Progress paper studies the mental models of engineering faculty regarding assessment, focusing on their use of metaphors. Assessments are crucial components in courses as they serve various purposes in the learning and teachin…
View article: Pushing Ethics Assessment Forward in Engineering: NLP-Assisted Qualitative Coding of Student Responses
Pushing Ethics Assessment Forward in Engineering: NLP-Assisted Qualitative Coding of Student Responses Open
Recent headlines have featured large language models (LLMs), like ChatGPT, for their potential impacts throughout society. These headlines often focus on educational impacts and policies. We posit that LLMs have the potential to improve in…
View article: Board 65: Work in Progress: Using Natural Language Processing to Facilitate Scoring of Scenario-Based Assessments
Board 65: Work in Progress: Using Natural Language Processing to Facilitate Scoring of Scenario-Based Assessments Open
In engineering education contexts, assessing socio-technical skills, such as systems thinking or risk assessment, is a complicated and difficult task. In many cases self-report scales are the most common, and sometimes only, existing avail…
View article: Using Natural Language Processing to Explore Undergraduate Students’ Perspectives of Social Class, Gender, and Race
Using Natural Language Processing to Explore Undergraduate Students’ Perspectives of Social Class, Gender, and Race Open
Groups within the engineering education community are enabling an environment for generating transformative scholarship and pedagogical practices to challenge existing systematic educational barriers for traditionally marginalized ethnic a…
View article: Using Sentiment Analysis to Evaluate First-year Engineering Students Teamwork Textual Feedback
Using Sentiment Analysis to Evaluate First-year Engineering Students Teamwork Textual Feedback Open
Abstract Sentiment analysis (SA) is used in multiple disciplines to evaluate textual data and has become a popular topic in educational research, with a growing body of published work. SA has been employed in educational research to invest…
View article: Collateral Damage: Investigating the Impacts of COVID on STEM Professionals with Caregiving Responsibilities
Collateral Damage: Investigating the Impacts of COVID on STEM Professionals with Caregiving Responsibilities Open
Numerous reports have showcased the negative impacts of the pandemic on women in the workforce—especially those in STEM and with caregiving responsibilities—and the ways in which COVID-19 has further compounded the challenges they face. We…
View article: An Empirical Study of Programming Languages Specified in Engineering Job Postings
An Empirical Study of Programming Languages Specified in Engineering Job Postings Open
Advancements in information technology have driven a demand for computer literacy and a growing need for engineers to develop computer programming skills. Given the shift in demand for these skills in engineering, educators must assess the…
View article: Augmented Reality for Sustainable Collaborative Design
Augmented Reality for Sustainable Collaborative Design Open
In this paper, we propose a conceptual framework to explore the affordances of augmented reality (AR) in supporting collaborative learning within the context of sustainability and engineering education. Our framework is informed by prior l…
View article: Using Generative Text Models to Create Qualitative Codebooks for Student Evaluations of Teaching
Using Generative Text Models to Create Qualitative Codebooks for Student Evaluations of Teaching Open
Feedback is a critical aspect of improvement. Unfortunately, when there is a lot of feedback from multiple sources, it can be difficult to distill the information into actionable insights. Consider student evaluations of teaching (SETs), w…
View article: How do ethics and diversity, equity, and inclusion relate in engineering? A systematic review
How do ethics and diversity, equity, and inclusion relate in engineering? A systematic review Open
Background This paper begins with the premise that ethics and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) overlap in engineering. Yet, the topics of ethics and DEI often inhabit different scholarly spaces in engineering education, thus creating…