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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
Nelsen, Bonalyn J.; Barley, Stephen R. – 1994
In a continuation of research on the technical labor force that was initiated in 1990 at a large northeastern university, professionalism among technical workers was examined from an emic perspective. (Emics are conceptual strategies that explain phenomena in terms meaningful to the people being studied, whereas etics explain phenomena in terms…
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Comparative Analysis, Competence, Ethnography