Recently added articles from Journal of Engineering Education:
On Becoming a 21st Century Engineer
Jul 01, 2008; Sheppard, Sheri D; Pellegrino, James W; Olds, Barbara M ... EVERYTHING CHANGES, EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED The world is dynamic. A multitude of challenges and opportunities are accelerating changes in how we view our planet and interact with one another as countries, states, communities, and neighbors. In his book The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman ...
A Rising Global Discipline
Jul 01, 2008; Lohmann, Jack R ... TIME FLIES, THINGS CHANGE-RAPIDLY It has been just over five years since fas, Journal of Engineering Education announced its more focused mission "to serve as an archival record of scholarly research in engineering education," and became the first journal dedicated solely to publication ...
Context and Challenge for Twenty-First Century Engineering Education
Jul 01, 2008; Vest, Charles M ... The engineering workforce of tomorrow, and indeed that of today, will face profound new challenges. Every day the men and women of this workforce will face the stress of competing in the fast-paced world of change we call the knowledge-based global economy of the twenty-first century. They will ...
Reframing Professional Development: A Systems Approach to Preparing Engineering Educators to Educate Tomorrow's Engineers
Jul 01, 2008; Adams, Robin S; Felder, Richard M ... The articles in this special issue present research on who engineering students are, how they learn, and what they need to know. The challenge to engineering education is that the answers to those issues are different now than they were just a few years ago, and they will inevitably continue to ...
The Human Face of Engineering
Jul 01, 2008; Malcom, Shirley M ... Engineers. . .a sea of white faces, all male, all in white shirts with dark ties. This was both the image and the reality of mission control at NASA in the 1960s. We were reminded of that history in October 2007 during events and reporting surrounding the 50th anniversary of Sputnik Perhaps it ...
Perspectives from Industry
Jul 01, 2008; Fouger, Xavier; Almgren, Ray; Gopalakrishnan, Kris; Mailhot, Paul ... The Journal of Engineering Education gratefully acknowledges our corporate partners for their support of this special issue. Their generosity made it possible to distribute complimentary copies of this issue to U.S. engineering faculty members and to many other stakeholders worldwide. Their ...
Learning Conceptual Knowledge in the Engineering Sciences: Overview and Future Research Directions
Jul 01, 2008; Streveler, Ruth A; Litzinger, Thomas A; Miller, Ronald L; Steif, Paul S ... ABSTRACT Learning conceptual knowledge in engineering science is a critical element in the development of competence and expertise in engineering. To date, however, research on conceptual learning in engineering science has been limited. Therefore, this article draws heavily on ...
Persistence, Engagement, and Migration in Engineering Programs
Jul 01, 2008; Ohland, Matthew W; Sheppard, Sheri D; Lichtenstein, Gary; Eris, Ozgur; Chachra, Debbie; Layton, Richard A ... ABSTRACT Records from the Multiple-Institution Database for Investigating Engineering Longitudinal Development indicate that engineering students are typical of students in other majors with respect to: persistence in major; persistence by gender and ethnicity, racial/ethnic ...
Looking Beyond Content: Skill Development for Engineers
Jul 01, 2008; Redish, Edward F; Smith, Karl A ... ABSTRACT Current concerns over reforming engineering education have focused attention on helping students develop skills and an adaptive expertise. Phenomenological guidelines for instruction along these lines can be understood as arising out of an emerging theory of thinking and ...
Ethics Teaching in Undergraduate Engineering Education
Jul 01, 2008; Colby, Anne; Sullivan, William M ... ABSTRACT This paper asks how undergraduate engineering education supports students' ethical development, broadly defined, in a diverse sample of U.S. engineering schools and offers an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of those efforts. The paper draws on observational case studies ...
Characterizing Design Learning: A Mixed-Methods Study of Engineering Designers' Use of Language
Jul 01, 2008; Atman, Cynthia J; Kilgore, Deborah; McKenna, Ann ... ABSTRACT Using multiple quantitative and qualitative methods to examine engineering design learning, we found that students taking a course in engineering design and/or studying engineering for four years acquired engineering design language that is common to a larger community of ...
Conceptualizing Engagement: Contributions of Faculty to Student Engagement in Engineering
Jul 01, 2008; Chen, Helen L; Lattuca, Lisa R; Hamilton, Eric R ... ABSTRACT The concept of student engagement, now prominent in the engineering education and higher education communities, has a long intellectual history. Yet only recently has attention focused on the role that faculty play as designers of educational environments to support student ...
Becoming an Engineer: Toward a Three Dimensional View of Engineering Learning
Jul 01, 2008; Stevens, Reed; O'Connor, Kevin; Garrison, Lari; Jocuns, Andrew; Amos, Daniel M ... ABSTRACT In this paper we develop an analytical framework we refer to as "Becoming an Engineer" that focuses upon changes occurring over time as students traverse their undergraduate educations in engineering. This analytical framework involves three related dimensions that we track over ...
Advancing Engineering Education in P-12 Classrooms
Jul 01, 2008; Brophy, Sean; Klein, Stacy; Portsmore, Merredith; Rogers, Chris ... ABSTRACT Engineering as a profession faces the challenge of making the use of technology ubiquitous and transparent in society while at the same time raising young learners' interest and understanding of how technology works. Educational efforts in science, technology, engineering, and ...
Engineering Identity
Jul 01, 2008; Rover, Diane T ... Engineering Identity Engineeringfora Changing World: A Roadmap to the Future of Engineering Practice, Research, and Education By James J. Duderstadt The Millennium Project, The University of Michigan, 2008, 131 pages, http://milproj.dc.umich.edu/publications/EngFlex_report/ On ...
Educating Generation Net-Can U.S. Engineering Woo and Win the Competition for Talent?
Jul 01, 2008; Chubin, Daryl; Donaldson, Krista; Olds, Barbara; Fleming, Lorraine ... ABSTRACT U.S. engineering education needs to evolve if the country is to maintain its preeminence in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields. This paper, building on both national engineering student data and findings from the Academic Pathways Study, conjectures and ...