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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Muhammad Khan; Nansong Wu

2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference On Measuring Personal Perception of Self-Efficacy of Students in Engineering Modeling and Design Courses Muhammad Khan and Nansong Wu Department of Electrical Engineering, Arkansas Tech UniversityAbstractOne of the primary objectives of engineering education is to develop skills and competencies inengineering students to enable them to design, construct and maintain objects and systems asfuture engineers. The engineers are expected to undertake design process within the constraintsimposed by safety, practicality, and cost criterions. Engineering education needs to maintain itsfocus on principles of

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2017 ASEE Midwest Section Conference

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Nicole Colston; Tyler Ley P.E.; Julie Thomas

careers. Pilot testing of the E2 curriculum in area schools demonstrated significantgains in 5th grade students’ understanding about the (a) work of an engineer, (b) the human-designed world, and (c) overall engineering career attitudes (Colston et al., 2017). Additionally,E2 training workshops had positive effects on preservice elementary teachers teachingengineering self-efficacy and understanding of the work of an engineer (Ivey, Thomas, Colston,Ley, & Utley, 2014). This companion article synthesizes the findings from a formativeevaluation of the E2 curriculum following implementation in 5th grade classrooms. Participantteachers attended a training workshop, implemented the curriculum, and then reported about thelesson implementation