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Hailes, Stephen; Jones, Liz; Micheletti, Martina; Mitchell, John E.; Nyamapfene, Abel; Roach, Kate; Tilley, Emanuela; Truscott, Fiona – Advances in Engineering Education, 2021
In 2014, the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences introduced the Integrated Engineering Programme -- a revision of eight existing degree programmes across a range of engineering disciplines. Centred on a thread of authentic project-based activities, the programme aimed to enhance the students' understanding of key theoretical concepts and heighten…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Authentic Learning, Student Projects, Active Learning
Kerr, Janel M. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore the role of mental models in Idaho's Engineering and Technology Education teachers' in decision making when faced with major curriculum changes. Senge (1990) defined mental models as, "deeply ingrained assumptions, generalizations, or even pictures or images that influence how we understand the world…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Program Implementation, Curriculum Implementation, Engineering Education
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Liu, Xiufeng; Ebenezer, Jazlin; Fraser, Duncan M. – Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 2002
Examines structural characteristics of university engineering students' conceptions of energy elicited through paragraph writing and their relations with categories of their conceptions specific to energy in solution processes identified through interviews. Reports that structures of students' conceptions are characterized primarily by…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Curriculum Development, Energy, Engineering Education
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Wicklein, Robert C. – Technology Teacher, 2006
In this article, the author seeks to identify and explain the primary rationale for having the field of technology education direct its focus on engineering design. The basis of this proposal stems from a combination of observations made over a 25-year career as a teacher/teacher educator of industrial arts/technology education and a broad-based…
Descriptors: Technology Education, Curriculum Development, Curriculum Design, Technological Literacy
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Renstrom, Roger – European Journal of Engineering Education, 2005
In this article it is described how the department has encouraged learning outcome discussions among the teachers and students. The typical development process of a new course is described. A two dimensional learning outcome model is also briefly introduced. This model is used to discuss what kinds of knowledge and skills are relevant in a…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Course Organization, Curriculum Development, Instructional Design
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Simonson, Michael, Ed.; Crawford, Margaret, Ed. – Association for Educational Communications and Technology, 2004
For the twenty-seventh year, the Research and Theory Division of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) is sponsoring the publication of these Proceedings. Papers published in this volume were presented at the National AECT Convention in Chicago, Illinois. The Proceedings of AECT's Convention are published in two…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Communications, Educational Technology, Mathematics Instruction