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View article: Correlations between Motives to Enter Engineering Studies and Engineering Self-Identity from a Pan-Canadian Undergraduate
Correlations between Motives to Enter Engineering Studies and Engineering Self-Identity from a Pan-Canadian Undergraduate Open
Understanding why students enter engineering has the potential to help formulate retention strategies and refine our understanding of engineering self-identity. This study explores the self-reported motives for entering engineering and eng…
View article: Preliminary Employment Trajectory Findings from a Pan-Canadian Survey on Career Motivations and Aspirations of Undergraduate Engineering Students
Preliminary Employment Trajectory Findings from a Pan-Canadian Survey on Career Motivations and Aspirations of Undergraduate Engineering Students Open
Engineering students have varied vocational motivations and aspirations. Clarity regarding these factors, how they can be nurtured, and how they can impact attrition from the profession can help foster retention and diversification. A surv…
View article: Student Involvement in Choice of Work in Progress: Course Activities and the Impact on Student Experience
Student Involvement in Choice of Work in Progress: Course Activities and the Impact on Student Experience Open
Student involvement literature suggests that offering students choices in course activities can improve their experience for several reasons: 1. Students take ownership and bring their individual learning styles to their courses, 2. The de…
View article: Joining students on their SLICCs journey
Joining students on their SLICCs journey Open
At Waterloo Engineering, we have great student leaders who go far beyond the average of 120 hours needed for a course credit in leadership roles, but currently receive no academic credit for this work. The SLICC (Student-Led, Individually-…
View article: DESIGN DAYS (RE)BOOT CAMP: INTEGRATING FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING DESIGN REMOTELY
DESIGN DAYS (RE)BOOT CAMP: INTEGRATING FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING DESIGN REMOTELY Open
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, course activities pivoted to online learning in 2020. This necessitated a redesign of Systems Design Engineering’s Design Days from a two-day in-person event at the start of term to three shorter online sessio…
View article: Assessing Life Long Learning Utilizing Coop Work Term Report
Assessing Life Long Learning Utilizing Coop Work Term Report Open
CEAB introduced graduate attributes (GA) as a tool to measure the performance of an engineering institute in delivering its engineering programs. The 12th attribute is Life Long Learning (LL), which is defined as the student’s ability to i…
View article: USING ACCOUNTABILITY LOGS TO ASSESS INDIVIDUAL STUDENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO CAPSTONE PROJECTS: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ONE STUDENT ON A TEAM FAILS?
USING ACCOUNTABILITY LOGS TO ASSESS INDIVIDUAL STUDENT CONTRIBUTIONS TO CAPSTONE PROJECTS: WHAT HAPPENS WHEN ONE STUDENT ON A TEAM FAILS? Open
– To discourage social loafing, the need for fair differential grading among team members led to the development and use of Accountability Logs(ALs) and associated evidence-based rubrics as tools to help Capstone Coordinators identify indi…