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Dixon, Raymond A.; Johnson, Scott D. – Journal of Technology Education, 2011
This study investigated the mental representations of student and professional engineers while they solved an engineering design problem. The intent was to gain a deeper insight into the differences that exist in the cognitive processes of engineering students and professional engineers as they use mental representations (i.e., propositions,…
Descriptors: Expertise, Novices, Engineering, Professional Personnel
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Austin, Katherine A.; Gorsuch, Greta J.; Lawson, William D.; Newberry, Byron P. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2011
The present project embarked on an educational intervention, consisting of a series of online ethics learning modules, to aid international graduate students in overcoming the acculturation barriers to understanding and inculcating normative ethical obligations associated with engineering practice and research in the United States. A fundamental…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Intervention, Protocol Analysis, Task Analysis