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Tracey Ann Carbonetto – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The purpose of this qualitative, phenomenological study was to investigate the perceptions of early career engineers regarding leadership competency development within the undergraduate engineering curricula. Participants were selected using purposeful, convenience, and snowball sampling. Study participants represented the early career engineering…
Descriptors: Novices, Engineering, Attitudes, Competence
Merve Budun – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The development of students' engineering identity revolves around cultivating their technical skills (Chachra et al., 2008; Meyers et al., 2012), and they rely on feedback to provide competence information with respect to engineering work (Godwin, 2014). This study explores the relationship between achievement goal orientations and…
Descriptors: Engineering, College Students, Student Behavior, Feedback (Response)
Deidre Horne Mangin – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Given the worldwide shortfall of engineers that threatens innovation and global stewardship, educators and industry must find ways to engage and prepare the next generation of engineers. To attract and train candidates to fill global needs, researchers need to expand engineering career pathway perceptions for students of all ages. Engineering…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Career Pathways, Mentors, Peer Relationship
Kayla Renee Maxey – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The engineering education community in the United States has witnessed a tremendous increase in broadening participation initiatives as they wrestle with issues regarding inclusion. To date, these initiatives have targeted several goals, including access, belonging, and retention of students from underrepresented backgrounds. However, these…
Descriptors: Engineering, STEM Education, Teacher Influence, Culture
Karen B. Plaster – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Mathematics plays a crucial role in engineering education. Students who are good at math are often advised to consider engineering as a career. In this study, engineers, mathematics teachers, and engineering professors were asked about the type of mathematics representative of engineering, whether the engineering problems created by math…
Descriptors: High School Teachers, Mathematics Education, Engineering, Engineering Education
Kristin S. Sandberg – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The need for engineers in the workforce continues to grow. Filling this need requires recruiting future engineers to colleges and universities and retaining them through to degree completion. However, this is easier said than done. Universities are tasked with attempting to keep up with the demand for new engineers and companies are searching for…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, High School Students, Course Evaluation, Engineering
Jum'ah, Laith – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Epistemic beliefs, epistemic cognitions, and self-regulation processes have a significant role in students' learning. Through this study, I investigated the role of mechanical engineering students' epistemic beliefs and epistemic cognitions involved in self-regulation processes while working on tasks with different difficulty levels. In this…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Cognitive Processes, Beliefs, Difficulty Level
Nicholas D. Moses – ProQuest LLC, 2024
There is a growing interest in socially engaged engineering, which emphasizes the consideration of social, cultural, environmental, and economic factors to broadly benefit society. However, current workforce training and engineering education programs do not adequately support skill sets needed to link complex societal needs and contexts to design…
Descriptors: Stakeholders, Engineering, Design, Engineering Education
Richard A. Robles – ProQuest LLC, 2020
The purpose of this study was to determine the extent to which professional development experiences like cooperative education (co-op) may influence undergraduate students' sense of professional identity as engineers. Researchers surveyed 97 baccalaureate engineering students using a modified engineering identity survey first developed by Meyers…
Descriptors: Professional Identity, Cooperative Education, Undergraduate Students, Engineering
Gustavo Perez – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The following study was conducted as a qualitative narrative study of four Mexican American secondary engineering teachers, including my own auto-ethnography as a Mexican American engineer and educator, working in school districts populated by primarily Mexican American students. The study stemmed from a general lack of attention in the literature…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, High School Teachers, Mexican Americans, School Districts
Baher Amouzgar – ProQuest LLC, 2022
Organizations advance and grow by solving problems one at a time, and management graduates should possess critical thinking and problem-solving capacities to be effective business managers and creative engineers. The problem was that critical thinking and creative problem solving are operationally ill-defined in engineering and management…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Problem Solving, Business Administration Education, Engineering Education
Iraz Medhi – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to examine the lived experiences of women engineering students through socialization processes during their cooperative education, co-op, experience., in which students gain work experience in their chose industries. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with female engineering students who have completed at least…
Descriptors: Females, Engineering, Experience, Work Experience Programs
Daniel Mehrabi Moezabadi – ProQuest LLC, 2024
The accelerated pace of globalization necessitates that civil engineering graduates possess a broad spectrum of competencies to meet the evolving needs of a dynamic, interconnected professional environment. This necessity encompasses a blend of practical, personal, and intercultural skills in aspiring engineers, driven by employers' increasing…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Engineering Education, International Education, Educational Benefits
Hadi Ali – ProQuest LLC, 2021
Although knowledge about effective teaching and learning exists, and theories of change strategies are considered, the lack of the understanding of the behavior of engineering faculty during curricular change remains a major contributor against robust efforts for change. In this work, faculty adaptability is conceptualized as self-regulation…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Engineering, Engineering Education, Faculty
Call, Benjamin J. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
Spatial ability represents our ability to mentally arrange, rotate, and explore objects in multiple dimensions. This ability has been found to be important for engineers and engineering students. Past research has shown that many interventions can be created to boost an individual's spatial ability. In fact, past research has indicated that…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Undergraduate Students, Engineering, Technical Occupations
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