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DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2019 Best PIC, Zone, and Diversity Papers Live Q&A

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Alexander John De Rosa, Stevens Institute of Technology; Maxine Fontaine, Stevens Institute of Technology

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2019 Best Zone & PIC Papers

dramatically by the end of the semester, closing the gap in spatialability initially observed between women and men at the start of the semester.Students who did not attend the workshop also showed significant increases in their test scoreshowever. This result indicates that completing the graphics course yielded similar improvementsin spatial skills as completing the workshop. The question then arises, what advantage does theworkshop provide over the engineering graphics course? If significant improvements in spatialability can be made after a 4-week workshop session, in comparison to a 14-week graphics course,that could have a positive outcome in student self-efficacy and potentially stronger learningoutcomes in the graphics course overall. This

Conference Session

DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: 2019 Best PIC, Zone, and Diversity Papers Live Q&A

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder; David Zhao; Alexandra Kulich; Madeline Polmear, University of Florida; Nathan E. Canney; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado Boulder

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2019 Best Zone & PIC Papers

theLikert-type response items, two weak correlations were found: student ratings of importance ofethical issues to engineering (Spearman’s rho 0.184, two-tailed sig. 0.002) and average self-efficacy (preparation/ confidence across 4 items; Spearman’s rho 0.140, two-tailed sig. 0.017).However, there were not correlations with students’ rating of the importance of the considerationof societal issues to engineering (Spearman’s rho .083, sig. .156) or the level they felt prepared toface ethical issues in their future work (Spearman’s rho 0.90, two-tailed sig. 0.125). It wasexpected that if students’ believed ethics was important they would have developed moreknowledge of ethics and therefore greater feelings of preparation, as well as being able to