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View article: Technical Skill Development in Vertically-Integrated, Team-Based Engineering Courses: Promoting Equity Across Genders
Technical Skill Development in Vertically-Integrated, Team-Based Engineering Courses: Promoting Equity Across Genders Open
The ability to work on teams is one of the outcomes that is sought by ABET and a wide range of industries. The help cultivate those abilities, many programs work in teams especially design teams within engineering. While there are many ben…
View article: WIP Elevating the Unsung Heroes: Assessing Graduate Teaching Assistants' Experiences in Service-Learning Programs
WIP Elevating the Unsung Heroes: Assessing Graduate Teaching Assistants' Experiences in Service-Learning Programs Open
Service-learning programs emphasizing engineering design are frequently recognized for their potential to enhance the professional development of students. Such programs, when viewed from a systems perspective, consist of intricate network…
View article: Board 360: Reflections from Graduates on the Impact of Engineers Without Borders USA Experiences on Professional Preparation
Board 360: Reflections from Graduates on the Impact of Engineers Without Borders USA Experiences on Professional Preparation Open
As engineering education seeks to integrate more experiential learning into the undergraduate portfolio, experiences within and outside of the traditional curriculum are being explored. To this end, community engagement is a particularly p…
View article: Alum Perspective Changes on Engineering Community-Engagement Experiences in EWB-USA
Alum Perspective Changes on Engineering Community-Engagement Experiences in EWB-USA Open
Community-engaged learning has grown rapidly in the past decades within the engineering disciplines as a promising approach to prepare students more wholistically to address wicked socio-technical problems as well as positively contribute …
View article: Engagement in Practice: Project-Based Community Engagement Model Preliminary Case Studies
Engagement in Practice: Project-Based Community Engagement Model Preliminary Case Studies Open
Existing community engagement and service-learning models intrinsically focus on placement-based experiences. This matches much of the early work in service-learning and fits those contexts well. However, engineering community engagement i…
View article: Visions of Engineers for the Future: A Comparison of American and Chinese Policy Discourses on Engineering Education Innovation
Visions of Engineers for the Future: A Comparison of American and Chinese Policy Discourses on Engineering Education Innovation Open
The US National Academy of Engineering reports The Engineer of 2020 and Educating the Engineer of 2020 marked an important shift in policy thinking regarding engineering education: the emphasis of engineering education leaders thence shift…
View article: Role of Reflection in Service Learning-based Engineering Programs: A Cross-cultural Exploratory and Comparative Case Study in India and the USA
Role of Reflection in Service Learning-based Engineering Programs: A Cross-cultural Exploratory and Comparative Case Study in India and the USA Open
Reflection is one of the pedagogical components which differentiates service-learning from community service and makes student learning authentic. Reflections have been studied widely within the U.S.; however, it is relatively new in India…
View article: Engagement in Practice: Lessons From a Large Engagement Program During a Pandemic
Engagement in Practice: Lessons From a Large Engagement Program During a Pandemic Open
2020 has been a challenging year for many across the globe. Universities and colleges were disrupted in the spring, as students were sent home and classes moved online. While this was taxing for all educators and students, community-engage…
View article: Community-Engaged Learning in First-Year Engineering
Community-Engaged Learning in First-Year Engineering Open
Community-engaged learning or service learning has grown pedagogy in higher education and within engineering and related fields. The pedagogy integrates academic learning with service activities and partnerships with local or global commun…
View article: Community-Engaged First Year Learning Community
Community-Engaged First Year Learning Community Open
Community Engaged Learning is a pedagogy that integrates academic learning with service activities and partnerships with local or global communities. The approach has shown many benefits to learning and student motivation. Within engineeri…
View article: A Project-Based Approach to Integrated Business and Engineering Curriculum
A Project-Based Approach to Integrated Business and Engineering Curriculum Open
Among over two million baccalaureate degrees conferred annually in the United States, business remain the most popular field of studies with over 19% of all graduates, followed by health professions and social sciences . Whereas only about…
View article: Active Participation of Industry in a Community-Engaged Design Program
Active Participation of Industry in a Community-Engaged Design Program Open
A community-engaged design program at a large public university partners teams of undergraduate students with local or global community organizations to design, build, and deliver real solutions to the community. The program creates three-…
View article: Engagement in Practice: Exploring Student and Instructor Perspectives in a Global Service Learning Experience towards a More Reciprocal and Decolonialized Partnership
Engagement in Practice: Exploring Student and Instructor Perspectives in a Global Service Learning Experience towards a More Reciprocal and Decolonialized Partnership Open
Human-centered design in service-learning paves the way for systematic community engagement; however, there can be room for interpretation in utilizing the strengths of international peers when focusing on local student development. This p…
View article: Engagement in Practice: Model for Project-Based Community Engagement [Central American NGO] Case Study
Engagement in Practice: Model for Project-Based Community Engagement [Central American NGO] Case Study Open
The landscape of community-engaged engineering and design is evolving as many global communities have experienced infrastructure development in recent decades, climate change and local crises impact peoples' environments, and calls grow fo…
View article: Assessing Multidisciplinary, Long-Term Design Experiences
Assessing Multidisciplinary, Long-Term Design Experiences Open
Assessing student learning through design experiences can be challenging and time consuming. . Approaches that that heavily weight project milestones and completion can be effective within a single-term or single-year experience where the …
View article: Helping First Year Students Make Critical Career Decisions
Helping First Year Students Make Critical Career Decisions Open
NOTE: The first page of text has been automatically extracted and included below in lieu of an abstract Session 3453 Helping First Year Students Make Critical Career Decisions William K. LeBold, Heidi Diefes, William C. Oakes Purdue Univer…
View article: Transitioning from Engineering Practice to Engineering Education Research: Lessons Learned from Four Researchers
Transitioning from Engineering Practice to Engineering Education Research: Lessons Learned from Four Researchers Open
ContextThe field of engineering education research is still emerging and draws people from many career paths and backgrounds.This paper focuses on the stories of four researchers who came from engineering practice. Purpose or GoalThis pape…
View article: Scope of Service-Learning in Accomplishing Objectives of National Education Policy 2020, India - A Conceptual Analysis
Scope of Service-Learning in Accomplishing Objectives of National Education Policy 2020, India - A Conceptual Analysis Open
National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 is the latest evolution of the Indian Education System built on the foundational pillars of Access, Equity, Quality, Affordability and Accountability. The NEP focuses on providing quality education to a…
View article: Capstone Design in Engineering Community Engagement Course
Capstone Design in Engineering Community Engagement Course Open
Community engagement is a growing area of attention within civil engineering education due to student interest and evidence of its benefits in supporting learning outcomes, among other factors. At Purdue University, a large curricular comm…
View article: Model for Project-Based Community Engagement
Model for Project-Based Community Engagement Open
Community engagement experiences in STEM fields are typically project-based, which introduces components and considerations not explicitly addressed by models commonly used in community-engaged learning more broadly. This paper is a narrat…
View article: Research Experiences Instrument Scoring Guide
Research Experiences Instrument Scoring Guide Open
This document is a scoring guide to assist higher-education administrators, faculty, and researchers who wish to use the Research Experiences Instrument (REI). There are five aspects, or factors, that the REI is intended to measure relativ…
View article: Evaluating the Impacts of Community Service on Student Learning Outcomes
Evaluating the Impacts of Community Service on Student Learning Outcomes Open
Service learning is an innovative approach to education that is being increasingly adopted by many engineering programs. Yet while service learning itself is becoming more prevalent, the body of research behind service learning is lacking …
View article: Assessing Engineering Ph.D. Students’ Research Experiences: What is Important to Assess?
Assessing Engineering Ph.D. Students’ Research Experiences: What is Important to Assess? Open
This paper presents the theoretical support and background literature for developing an assessment to understand how the research experiences of engineering Ph.D. students shape them as future professionals. Many concerns, both in the U.S.…
View article: Blended Phenomenography: An Alternative to Investigate Learning
Blended Phenomenography: An Alternative to Investigate Learning Open
Phenomenography is a research approach that has been widely used in Engineering Education to study student’s experiences with various phenomena such as Human-Centered Design, interdisciplinary learning, multiple solutions, conditional and …
View article: An Assessment Approach to Project-Based Service Learning
An Assessment Approach to Project-Based Service Learning Open
A Research-Informed Assessment Approach to Project-Based Service LearningAssessment is important to engineering educators and researchers to evaluate the effectivenessand quality of student learning in courses and experiences. Assessment c…
View article: Immersive Experience Impact on Students' Understanding of Design
Immersive Experience Impact on Students' Understanding of Design Open
Immersive Experience Impact on Understanding of Design Design is a central and distinguishing activity of engineering and one of the core criteriafor evaluating and accrediting engineering programs. In today’s globally competitive economy,…
View article: Integration of a First-Year Learning Community with a Vertically Integrated Design Program
Integration of a First-Year Learning Community with a Vertically Integrated Design Program Open
Integration of a First-Year Learning Community with a Vertically-Integrated Design ProgramHow do we allow first-year students to experience the excitement of engineering? Often first-yearclasses incorporate design project and other activit…