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Outcomes Of A Longitudinal Administration Of The Persistence In Engineering Survey, Ozgur Eris, Debbie Chachra, Helen Chen, Sheri Sheppard, Larry Ludlow, Camelia Rosca, Tori Bailey, George Toye
Outcomes Of A Longitudinal Administration Of The Persistence In Engineering Survey, Ozgur Eris, Debbie Chachra, Helen Chen, Sheri Sheppard, Larry Ludlow, Camelia Rosca, Tori Bailey, George Toye
Ozgur Eris
BACKGROUND Understanding more about student decisions to leave engineering may leadto higher retention. This study builds on the literature and focuses on theexperiences of a cohort of students who aimed to complete their undergraduatework in 2007. PURPOSE (HYPOTHESIS) This paper presents the outcomes of the longitudinal administration of thePersistence in Engineering survey. The goal was to identify correlates of persistencein undergraduate engineering education and professional engineeringpractice. DESIGN/METHOD The survey was administered seven times over four years to a cohort of studentswho had expressed interest in studying engineering. At the end of thestudy, the participants were categorized as persisters or non-persisters.Repeated …
Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, And Learning, Clive Dym, Alice Agogino, Ozgur Eris, Daniel Frey, Larry Leifer
Engineering Design Thinking, Teaching, And Learning, Clive Dym, Alice Agogino, Ozgur Eris, Daniel Frey, Larry Leifer
Ozgur Eris
engineering education is to graduate engineers who can design,and that design thinking is complex. The paper begins by brieflyreviewing the history and role of design in the engineeringcurriculum. Several dimensions of design thinking are thendetailed, explaining why design is hard to learn and harder still toteach, and outlining the research available on how well designthinking skills are learned. The currently most-favoredpedagogical model for teaching design, project-based learning(PBL), is explored next, along with available assessment data onits success. Two contexts for PBL are emphasized: first-yearcornerstone courses and globally dispersed PBL courses. Finally,the paper lists some of the open research questions that …
Enhancing Design Learning Using Groupware, Andrew Wodehouse, Ozgur Eris, Hillary Grierson, Ade Mabogunje
Enhancing Design Learning Using Groupware, Andrew Wodehouse, Ozgur Eris, Hillary Grierson, Ade Mabogunje
Ozgur Eris
Project work is increasingly used to help engineering students integrate, apply and expand on knowledge gained from theoretical classes in their curriculum and expose students to `real world' tasks. To help facilitate this process, the department of Design, Manufacture and Engineering Management at the University of Strathclyde has developed a web-based groupware product called LauLima to help students store, share, structure and apply information when they are working in design teams. This paper describes a distributed design project class in which LauLima has been deployed in accordance with a Design Knowledge Framework that describes how design knowledge is generated and …
Insisting On Truth At The Expense Of Conceptualization: Can Engineering Portfolios Help?, Ozgur Eris
Insisting On Truth At The Expense Of Conceptualization: Can Engineering Portfolios Help?, Ozgur Eris
Ozgur Eris
Teaching and promoting conceptual thinking in engineering education is challenging. Two recently introduced design thinking models are compared in order to explore the reasons behind this challenge. The comparison results in key distinctions between divergent and convergent thinking, and between concept and knowledge domains. The differentiating principle is shown to be a common principle of the two models, truth-value, or logical status, of the propositions that engineers make. Building on this insight, divergent thinking by inquiry is identified as a mechanism for promoting conceptual thinking, and a specific implementation of engineering portfolios is proposed as a pedagogical tool.