Streveler, R. A., & Montfort, D., & Herman, G. L., & Brown, S. A., & Matusovich, H. M. (2014, June), Conceptual Change across Engineering Disciplines  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--20200

\bibitem{asee_peer_20200}
  Streveler, R. A., \& Montfort, D., \& Herman, G. L., \& Brown, S. A., \& Matusovich, H. M. (2014, June), \emph{Conceptual Change across Engineering Disciplines}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--20200

Ruth A. Streveler, Devlin Montfort, Geoffrey L. Herman, Shane A. Brown P.E., and Holly M. Matusovich.  "Conceptual Change across Engineering Disciplines".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://peer.asee.org/20200 Internet.  23 Apr, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_20200}
  Ruth A. Streveler, Devlin Montfort, Geoffrey L. Herman, Shane A. Brown P.E., and Holly M. Matusovich.
  "Conceptual Change across Engineering Disciplines".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://peer.asee.org/20200 Internet.  23 Apr, 2024

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AB  -                 Conceptual Change Across Engineering DisciplinesExisting research on conceptual change (i.e. the effortful process of revising or changing one’sfundamental understanding of something) has drawn from various disciplines including physics,biology, mathematics and history. Little research has been done, however, investigating howdifferences in content may affect conceptual change in the various disciplines. The researchdescribed here investigates this question by analyzing data on student understanding ofengineering concepts from multiple content areas within the broad discipline of engineering:geometric design of highways, medium-scale integrated circuits, mechanics of materials, fluidmechanics, thermodynamics, signalized intersections and Boolean logic. In total this workincludes more than 200 interviews, of which a sub-set have been analyzed. These interviewswere originally conducted with the intent of characterizing student understanding of the varioustopics, and all use a semi-structured, clinical interview format. The purpose of the analysesreported here are to identify commonalities and differences in student understanding of thesecore “engineering” concepts in order to illuminate a developing theory of engineering-specificconceptual change. Intriguing commonalities in students’ conceptual understanding of diverseengineering sub-topics have been identified, including the uses of terminology, the applicationand quality of previous interaction with content (e.g. driving on a highway may be a more directinteraction with the engineering content of highway design than the use of a computer is directcontact with digital logic), the scales of phenomena and their analysis (e.g. the stresses andstrains in materials caused by loading are microscopic phenomena but are often analyzedmacroscopically), and the motivations of students to develop deeper understanding. Theseappear to be unique features of engineering content that will affect the conceptual change andunderstanding of engineering students differently. These findings can help refine the applicationof existing research on learning and conceptual change to engineering specifically, and will helpidentify gaps in our existing understanding that would be fruitful for future research.
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