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Article: Conceptualizing Engagement: Contributions of Faculty to Student Engagement in Engineering
- Article from:
- Journal of Engineering Education
- Article date:
- July 1, 2008
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CopyrightCopyright AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR ENGINEERING EDUCATION Jul 2008. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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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 engage
ment. Drawing from examples and data from the Engineering Change study (which evaluated the impact of the new EC2000 accreditation standards on engineering programs and student learning), the Academic Pathways Study of the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education, and studies underway at the United States Air Force Academy, we explore the role of faculty, as the institutional agents who are most ...