Conference Session

Learning and Teaching Issues

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Gul Okudan Kremer

(physics class, chemistry,workshops, instruments, tools); what hobbies they have; why they are interested in engineering asa major and as a possible future career; and how committed they are to graduating as an engineer.Using these data, it was intended to ensure there is a good mixture of majors, prior skill sets, andhobbies represented on each team. In addition, an attempt was made not to isolate a single femaleon a team. An identical design experience and familiarity questionnaire was administered to bothsections right before the design project was introduced. This questionnaire included questionsrelevant to students’ self-assessment on their 1) familiarity with camping, 2) familiarity withfolding campers, 3) their like/dislike of

Conference Session

Engineering Education Research

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Jolly Lesley; David Radcliffe

society it desires to serve, then it must construct apluralistic identity that embraces more than one way of knowing and acting in the world. Whilethe pragmatic practice of engineering in industry is beginning to confront some of these issuesthrough environmental and societal dimensions of technology (e.g. the triple bottom line),academe, through scholarly endeavours, has a vital role to play in bring about a new engineering.A Pluralist Framework for Scholarship in Engineering EducationIf we are to encourage more faculty to engage in empirical research in engineering education andthus raise its profile as a legitimate field of research in engineering schools then we have toaddress the issues raised thus far. It seems clear that a pluralist

Conference Session

Technology, Communication, & Ethics

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Paulette Beatty; Jackie Revuelto; Dianne Kraft; Carolyn Clark

grade. Students are usually given sometraining in how to function as a team. Professors have devised multiple ways of formingteams. Some do random assignment, others try to create a balance between ability levels.Many make efforts, at least in the first semester, to avoid creating teams that have onlyone woman or minority student on them. In some cohorts, all the team members have thesame grade point average. Personality surveys, such as the Myers-Briggs, are sometimesused to create balanced teams. A few professors allow students to choose their ownteams, sometimes requiring that they have representatives from each engineeringdiscipline in their groups. Some faculty think that spending a lot of time forming the teamhelps to ensure successful