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Gestson, Sean L.; Brown, Shane; Ahmed, Ananna; Hurwitz, David; Bornasal, Floraliza; Desing, Renee M. – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2024
Problem solving is a common activity for engineering students and practicing engineers as they learn and practice the use of engineering concepts. Understanding the approach to a problem provides a glimpse at unique problem-solving behaviors that can be used as a means to compare different problem solvers. Engineering education research has…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Problem Solving
Kelley E. Dugan; Erika A. Mosyjowski; Shanna R. Daly; Lisa R. Lattuca – Journal of Engineering Education, 2024
Background: To prepare engineers who can address complex sociotechnical problems, a deep understanding of engineers' complex problem-solving approaches is needed. Purpose/Hypothesis: This study operationalizes comprehensive systems thinking as an analysis framework that attends to aspects of engineering work and relationships among those aspects.…
Descriptors: Engineering, Engineering Education, Problem Solving, Knowledge Level
Tell Us What You Think: Exploring Environmental Ethical Considerations in the Problem-Solving Studio
Starke, Jeffrey A.; Butkus, Michael A. – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2024
Universities employ numerous approaches to integrate ethics into programs of study that can range from faculty-led case studies integrated into course curricula (distributed model) to standalone ethics courses (consolidated model). The approach described here enhanced a distributed model in which several courses are assigned responsibility to…
Descriptors: Ethics, Problem Solving, Case Studies, Role Playing
Barner, Matthew S.; Brown, Shane A.; Linton, David – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2021
Heuristics are approaches engineers use for solving problems and making decisions with quick, often approximate, calculations and/or judgement calls. Such approaches have become marginalized in structural engineering education to make room for more theoretical and precise approaches. As a result, engineering students are less confident with…
Descriptors: Heuristics, Engineering, Technical Occupations, Engineering Education
Akinci-Ceylan, Secil; Cetin, Kristen S.; Ahn, Benjamin; Surovek, Andrea; Cetin, Bora – Journal of Civil Engineering Education, 2022
Solving ill-structured problems is a complex task that is required of engineers who work in industry. To better prepare undergraduate engineering students for this complex task and their future professional careers, this paper provides an analysis of the results of research focusing on the study of problem-solving processes adopted by civil…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Students, College Faculty, Engineering Education, Engineering
Hira, Avneet; Hynes, Morgan – Information and Learning Sciences, 2021
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to understand how designers and engineers practice design while Making. Motivated by their roots in constructionist learning principles, Makerspaces are increasingly used as sites to learn design, especially in undergraduate engineering education programs. However, there has been little work on how trained…
Descriptors: Design, Shared Resources and Services, Engineering, Technical Occupations
Amanda Singer; Stacie Aguirre-Jaimes; Antonique White; Margot Vigeant; Michelle Jarvie-Eggart – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
Contribution: This article provides an examination of changes in first-year engineering students' perceptions of the role of an engineer after completing the Engineers Without Borders Challenge. Background: Essential pre- and post-comparisons missing in existing studies on the Challenge are provided, as well as comparison to other first-year…
Descriptors: College Freshmen, Student Attitudes, Engineering Education, Engineering
Wei Xu; Jia-Chen Chen; Ye-feng Lou; Hang Chen – International Journal of Technology and Design Education, 2024
Maker education can enhance learners' creativity. Design thinking can facilitate the innovative resolution of complex problems. The design thinking literature and most maker teaching modes are limited in their promotion of learning and ability development in various dimensions. Learners have stereotypes about some professions; interventions can…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cooperative Learning, Problem Based Learning, Student Projects
Francisco Cima; Pilar Pazos; Minjung Lee; Kristie Gutierrez; Jennifer Kidd; Orlando Ayala; Stacie Ringleb; Krishnanand Kaipa; Danielle Rhemer – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2025
This study contributes to team science and competency development by comparing demonstrated teamwork skills by engineering students participating in disciplinary and cross-disciplinary team projects. Teamwork skills are key competencies necessary to solve complex technical challenges in the workplace. Despite prior efforts to enhance these…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Teamwork, Undergraduate Students, Engineering Education
Bornasal, Floraliza; Brown, Shane; Perova-Mello, Natasha; Beddoes, Kacey – Journal of Engineering Education, 2018
Background:Concepts are defined generally as fundamental principles or global understandings specific to a field of expertise. Theories of situated cognition suggest that concepts may not have uniform meaning or representation in a particular social setting. Purpose/Hypothesis: The goal of this study was to investigate the process by which…
Descriptors: Engineering, Technical Occupations, Expertise, Problem Solving
Murray, Jaclyn K.; Studer, Jaryn A.; Daly, Shanna R.; McKilligan, Seda; Seifert, Colleen M. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2019
Background: Problem exploration includes identifying, framing, and defining design problems and bounding problem spaces. Intentional and unintentional changes in problem understanding naturally occur as designers explore design problems to create solutions. Through problem exploration, new perspectives on the problem can emerge along with new and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Perspective Taking, Design, Technical Occupations
Algravez, Ana Melissa; Shunk, Dan L.; Lopez, Jorge Sosa; Gaynor, Juan M. Terrazas; Silva, Juan R. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2021
The Centro de Enseñanza Técnica y Superior (CETYS University) is a private institution established in 1961 in Baja California, Mexico under the auspices of a group of visionary entrepreneurs committed to education. CETYS Engineering recognized in the spring of 2016 that it needed a formal organization to provide third-party, external feedback for…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Competency Based Education, College Graduates, Private Colleges
Cinar, Sinan – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2019
Young boys and girls make houses and beds from cloths and cartons for their dolls, erect shelters and fences for toy animals, build ramps and garages from blocks for toy cars, and lift objects using a rope and reel for having fun. Thanks to their experiences with such design-based games, children combine science with engineering and try to…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Engineering, Design, Curriculum Implementation
Ergün, Aysegül; Kiyici, Gülbin – Pegem Journal of Education and Instruction, 2019
The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Design Based Science Education (DBSE) applications on the perceptions of science teacher candidates about engineering education and engineers. In the quantitative part of the study in which the mixed method was involved, a semi-experimental design with single group pre-test post-test was…
Descriptors: Design, Preservice Teachers, Engineering Education, Technical Occupations
Passow, Honor J.; Passow, Christian H. – Journal of Engineering Education, 2017
Background: Under Washington Accord or ABET accreditation requirements, faculty must envision, collectively articulate, and prioritize the competencies that students should gain from their educational program to prepare for life and myriad career paths. Purpose: When faculty create specifications for designing a curriculum, they need to answer…
Descriptors: Competency Based Education, Engineering Education, Undergraduate Study, Teamwork