Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A Masi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

in which undergraduates can participate. The question is how might such initiativeshelp create an integrative learning experience for undergraduate education? What constitutes anintegrative learning experience? And how might impact on students be measured?BackgroundPerceived self-efficacy is defined as a person’s belief in his or her abilities to successfullycomplete a task or reach a goal. The choices that people make are directly governed by theirperception of their self-efficacy – people will gravitate towards activities and situations that theyare confident they will succeed in and avoid situations that require skills and abilities that theymight lack.According to Bandura, students who have the opportunity to successfully complete a real

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara A. Masi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Shanette A. Go; E. Hosoi, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

concreteengineering and cross-disciplinary tasks using a Bandura-style confidence scale. The surveyincluded self-efficacy questions that measured the ability of students to complete tasks that fallunder the following three ability areas: Engineering (use of math, science and engineering concepts, problem solving, experimentation, design) Cross-disciplinary (use of knowledge and perspectives from social science/humanities in problem solving, integration of engineering and social science/humanities knowledge and concepts in problem solving) Professional (teamwork, writing, oral communication).Disciplinary engineering skills are the skills that students are expected to develop through theircoursework in a single engineering discipline; cross

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, Ph.D., University of Southern California

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

communityconnectedness (β=0.146, p<0.05). Moreover, results indicated that dominant ethnic group(namely the reported Caucasian ethnic group) held lower levels of global centrism (β=-0.203,p=0.06). In terms of engineering efficacy, the results indicate a negative/inverse relationshipbetween engineering efficacy and being an international student (β=-0.215, p<0.05). This findingmay be attributed to fundamental difference in educational systems, structures and pedagogicalpractices between students’ home country and the United States university systems, which may,in turn, contribute to lower self-efficacy in engineering. Lastly, the regression analyses revealed that studying abroad in a culture different fromstudents’ culture of origin was

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Technical Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Scott P. Schaffer, Purdue University; Margaret Huyck, Illinois Institute of Technology; William C. Oakes, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Gandara, Illinois Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Multidisciplinary Engineering

work collaboratively. Reasons for this are that methods for assessing andproviding feedback to students relative to team learning are not well developed and are Page 22.241.2challenging to implement.In response to this opportunity, we have designed, developed, and evaluate targeted assessmentstrategies that specifically focus on improving team learning and performance practices. Fouruniversity programs are described with reference to the team assessment measures deemedappropriate within each context. Assessment measures developed include a cross-disciplinaryteam learning (CDTL) self-efficacy; a survey of cross-disciplinary functioning; and a