Conference Session

FPD 2: Building Community

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Betsy F. Willis, Southern Methodist University; David A. Willis, Southern Methodist University; Mark Fontenot, Southern Methodist University

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First-Year Programs

participation in a living-learningcommunity and persistence.2 Fundamentally, though, no negative effects to participation have Page 24.404.3been noted.Future employers of engineering and computer science undergraduates want more than just asolid technical education. A number of “soft skills” must be developed as well. Some of theseskills include work ethic, timeliness, attendance, and professionalism.6 The Center forProfessional Excellence indicates that 95% of human resources managers feel universities shouldinclude professionalism training as part of the curriculum.7 This professionalism training shouldinclude skills for interviewing, communication

Conference Session

Trends in Engineering Education 2

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Eden Fisher, Carnegie Mellon University; Indira Nair, Carnegie Mellon University; Mustafa A. Biviji, E2RG

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Educational Research and Methods

aversion were presented as Personal Attributesthat can inhibit innovation.Concerning important Skills for innovation, students cited a speaker who emphasized,“You should be cataloguing and capturing expertise and ensuring we have adequateexpertise in those fields where we have to make decisions”. Soft skills were alsohighlighted, including management and leadership skills, developing strategy, the abilityto make decisions with imperfect data, communication skills, and developing anunderstanding of the holistic approach.The Process for Innovation was highlighted in different ways. One team suggested‘understanding the customer through the creation of a story’. This was related to different

Conference Session

Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation Division New Ideas Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Christy L. Bozic, Purdue University; Nathan W. Hartman, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

better used towards a class discussion, where everyone’s engaged, and everyone’s discussing and bringing up different points and views on it.Because the learning is active, implementing case-based instruction as a pedagogical toolprovides the opportunity to shift the emphasis from a professor-centered to a student-centeredenvironment[5]. In support of active learning pedagogies, one student offered: I was very happy to interact and discuss the concept. I felt as if speaking about it was extremely helpful and the fact that it was interactive was even more beneficial.One participant in the interview discussed how case-based instruction challenges engineeringand technology students to develop the necessary “soft skills” of

Conference Session

Instrumentation Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zachary Cody Hazelwood; Saleh M. Sbenaty, Middle Tennessee State University

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Instrumentation

? Undergraduate students are encouraged to conduct research since this unique experience put them a cut above the rest when applying for jobs. This is true since undergraduate research helps students by: Integrating coursework through “hands-on” projects. Creating independence and autonomous researcher. Building Resume - writing a proposal, completing a research project, writing a final report, and orally present the results greatly enhance the student’s experience. Preparing for graduate school, where a main goal is a research project. Developing “soft skills” important for entering into and succeeding in the job market. URECA grants allow students to build skills in their chosen

Conference Session

Laboratory Experiences in Signal Processing and Controls

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bonnie H. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Aldo A. Ferri, Georgia Institute of Technology; Kenneth A Connor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

objectives vs others.The experiment gives students exposure to Instrumentation, Models, Experimentation, and DataAnalysis (objectives 1-4 of Feisel and Rosa8). The use of a guitar string as the vehicle forlearning allows the students to develop Psychomotor (the ability to actually touch andmanipulate the device) and Sensory Awareness (objectives 8 and 12, respectively.) The exercisealso helps reinforce “soft skills that are so important in professional practice: Safety,Communication, Teamwork, Ethics (objectives 9 – 12). Tuning, fret positioning, the tone controlcircuit relate to Design (objective 5). Finally, although not intentional, students will sometimesget exposure to objective 6: Learning from Failure. The portability and affordability

Conference Session

Early College Retention Programs

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Yvonne Ng

students practice them in a “semi- professional” setting. Written communication, project planning, ethical decision-making and collaborative problem-solving are the essential “soft skills” required for success in any professional engineer. The freshman program at Bucknell University, for example, has students create an ADA-compliant project proposal for the university. This experience impresses upon the Page 10.1194.2 students the importance of making sound technical suggestions and being able to present the required information to persuade (often non-technical) decision makers about ethically

Conference Session

First-Year Design Experiences

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

S. Scott Moor

. Page 10.540.1These projects are desirable for many reasons. They are more realistic to engineering practice Proceedings of the 2005 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright @2005, American Society for Engineering Educationthan simply assigning textbook analysis problems because they include many “soft skills” aswell as analytic skills. They are often more interesting to first-year students and can be helpfulwith retention issues. The active (hands-on) nature makes them better learning experiences thantraditional lecture content.However it is difficult to find projects which encompass the breadth of engineering skillsincluding engineering science, project management

Conference Session

EM Skills and Real World Concepts

Collection

2005 Annual Conference

Authors

Sam Geonetta

Management for Students of Technology: A Case Study in Information Technology Education Dr. Sam C. Geonetta University of Cincinnati, College of Applied Science 2220 Victory Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45245Introduction In her article on graduates of engineering and technology programs Kerry Hannonobserves that “. . .corporations want the whole ball of wax—soft skills, science skills, anddiversity.”1 Loria Yeadon, a patent attorney who holds a master’s degree in electricalengineering, emphasizes the need for technology professionals to be “business-minded”.2 InInternetWeek, Nick Evans states that “Most will agree that

Conference Session

New Electrical ET Course Development

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Biswajit Ray

soft skills including teamwork, open- instrumentation systems for industrial processes ended problem solving, formal report writing and using multiple sensors, interface electronics, data presentation acquisition card, and GPIB and serial instrumentsLaboratory setupEach station is equipped with a PC, and GPIB/RS-232 interfaced instruments such as digitalmultimeter, triple output laboratory power supply, arbitrary function generator, and color two-channel digital oscilloscope. The instrumentation and data acquisition specific software andhardware are briefly described below.Software: LabVIEW 6.0 from National Instruments7Data acquisition (DAQ) board: Model 6024E from National Instruments • 16 single-ended or 8

Conference Session

Global Engineering in an Interconnected World

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

Bethany Oberst; Russel Jones

, that’s a very different kind of trainingdebate than what we’ve typically talked about in these very walls at Brookings, which is let’s figure out how we cangive people coming off the welfare rolls the soft skills they need to make it into the labor market. And we’ve had apretty time, really pushing that agenda very far and have had some success but questionable. So you’re talkingabout a training agenda that is so far beyond anything we’ve contemplated.”23 Reich, Robert. “Jobless in America.” CIO Magazine. Fall/Winter 2003.http://www.cio.com/archive/092203/index.html24 “The Science and Engineering Workforce: Realizing America’s Potential,” National Science Board. NationalScience Foundation, August 14, 2003. Available at http://www.nsf.gov/nsb

Conference Session

ASEE Multimedia Session

Collection

2003 Annual Conference

Authors

Michael Deisenroth

• Teaming and Team Building • Engineering Ethics • Computer Application Skills • Economic Evaluation of Alternatives • Applied OptimizationThe first four threads are associated with the “soft skills” that are necessary to practiceengineering in today’s marketplace. Each of these might be addressed by adding a course to thecurriculum, by integrating it within a set of ISE courses, or by a combination of the twoalternatives. Since each of these threads represents ideas and concepts that are already coveredin various places within ISE courses and in courses taken from other departments, we have thebasis for beginning our thread development. Creating an Academic Thread associated with anyof these areas will serve to

Conference Session

The Best of Interdisciplinary Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

William Rossi; Herbert Ingley; Erik Sander; Dow Whitney; Marc Hoit; R. Keith Stanfill

Engineeringprovided funds for this company.ConclusionThe UF ITV program provides a unique experiential learning environment for engineering andbusiness students. Students learn firsthand how entrepreneurial ventures are formed and operate.Along their educational journey, they also learn many technical and soft skills necessary to beproductive professionals. Program success will be measured in terms of student learningobjectives and the spin-off of new ventures. We hope this success creates jobs for the local areaand a steady stream of trained technology entrepreneurs.AcknowledgementsThe following colleagues were key to getting the ITV program launched: E.J. Sander, W.J.Rossi, R.K. Stanfill, P. Davenport, A. Martin, C. Sapienza, H.A. Ingley, K. Hatfield

Conference Session

Multidisciplinary Engineering Programs

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

W. Wentzheimer; Jennifer VanAntwerp; Gayle Ermer; Steven VanderLeest

American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2004, American Society for Engineering EducationAnother helpful influence is for students to be exposed as much as possible to engineeringpractitioners. These engineers almost unanimously emphasize the importance of “soft skills”and a broad context for success. This means encouraging faculty to maintain ties with industry,bringing in engineers from industry for seminars and guest lectures, and providing mentoringopportunities for our students in local businesses. A particularly effective experience this yearwas a panel of members from our industrial advisory council talking about what it takes to be asuccessful engineer in a number of

Conference Session

Entrepreneurism in BME

Collection

2004 Annual Conference

Authors

David Smith; John Troy; Penny Hirsch

another and (b) situating learning within real-world (“authentic”) challenges • Assessment-centered: (a) providing frequent opportunities for students to make their thinking visible, so their misunderstandings can be corrected, and (b) revising teaching and learning activities after measuring student learningIn addition, modules reflect two other key VaNTH activities: a taxonomy of core concepts andskills in biomedical engineering, which is intended to become a central document for curricularplanning, and a taxonomy of related core competencies in areas such as communication, ethics,and teamwork. This latter taxonomy resembles other taxonomies of “soft skills” that are underdevelopment, such as the CDIO taxonomy in the

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Spencer Brinkerhoff; III, Walter Hopkins; David Hartman

integrates content from many of the previous engineering courses into ateam-oriented, senior-level design experience. After several years of successful capstone courses,the faculty determined that the senior course could be much more effective if students learned touse some of the so-called “soft” skills earlier in their educational experiences. Subsequently a Page 6.511.1sophomore-level course, Engineering Design: The Process, was developed and offered, followed Proceedings of the 2001 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition Copyright © 2001, American Society for Engineering

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Zbigniew Prusak

decade 1, 2, 3, 4 shed lighton the growing emphasis put by the industry on development of so called ’soft skills’ as a necessarycomponent of skills possessed by successful engineers and technologists. Many examples ofapproaches that evaluate creativity, efficiency and overall output of engineering work are availablefrom academic and business point of view 5, 6, 7, 8 . Newest ABET accreditation standards alsorequire goal-oriented education that strives to define educational objectives for a program, andimplement and evaluate instruments for conveying necessary knowledge. Experimentation andhands-on projects are believed to be one of the best avenues to teach the concepts of the abovementioned core knowledge and skills of present day engineers 9

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William David Schlecht, Washington State University; Bernard J. Van Wie, Washington State University; Paul B. Golter, Washington State University; Robert F. Richards, Washington State University; Jennifer C. Adam, Washington State University; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Marc Compere, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach; Edwin Maurer P.E., Santa Clara University; Denny C. Davis, Washington State University; Olusola O. Adesope, Washington State University, Pullman; Joseph D. Law, University of Idaho, Moscow; Gary Robert Brown, AAC&U; Prashanta Dutta, Washington State University; David B. Thiessen, Washington State University; Baba Abdul, Washington State University

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NSF Grantees

additional benefit of improving soft skills such as communication and teamwork. Asurvey of alums from WSU shows that the project centered class work and assessment rubric arein good alignment with industrial expectations and that the work produced by students inCHAPL based courses is in good alignment with what industry would expect of entry levelemployees.AcknowledgementsThe authors wish to acknowledge the US National Science Foundation CCLI Grants DUE-0618872 and 1023121) for support of the work to build, test and more importantly implement theDLMs and associated CHAPL pedagogy. We are grateful to the College of Engineering &Architecture important design contributions to and manufacturing of the DLM from Mr. GaryHeld, Machinist in the WSU

Conference Session

Social Media and In-class Technology: Creating Active Learning Environments

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gonca Altuger-Genc, University of Massachusetts, Lowell; Yegin Genc, Stevens Institute of Technology

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Computers in Education

’ technical knowledge where as the method of implementationwas selected to improve students’ soft skills. The methodology consisted of 5 majorsteps: Step 1: In – class presentation on lifelong learning and self-directed learning Step 2: Survey (Pre-implementation survey) to measure students’ comfort level and overall understanding of the concept of lifelong learning Step 3: Selection of the implementation platform Step 4: Implementation of the self-directed learning modules Step 5: Survey (Post-implementation survey) to measure students’ responses to the experience, and also to collect feedbackStep 1: In-class presentation on lifelong learning and self-directed learningIn the beginning of the semester

Conference Session

Pedagogical Approaches for Software Engineering

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Colin J. Neill, Pennsylvania State University; Joanna F. DeFranco, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley; Raghvinder S. Sangwan, Pennsylvania State University, Great Valley

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Software Engineering Constituent Committee

object-oriented analysis and design.Using pre- and post-testing, we studied course outcomes of software engineering graduatestudents learning software systems design that have also utilized the CCM in a systems designproject and contrasted these results with a control group.BackgroundAnecdotally we frequently hear from employers that it is “soft skills” that they most desire intheir engineering and technical staff. While this is likely only true when those employees areproficient engineers, it is clear that engineering is a team activity11 and the ability of an engineerto work effectively in a team is a keenly sought after skill12.Beyond the external need for team-oriented engineers, there is evidence that collaborativelearning methods are more

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Poster Session

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Maria Dawn Blevins, University of Utah; Steven J. Burian, University of Utah

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Civil Engineering

students sometimes feel thatworking on soft skills such as communication, writing, and sustainability are not directlyimportant to the tasks of their future4. However, the Accrediting Board for Engineering andTechnology (ABET)5, the organization that develops standards for college programs to meet,requires that sustainability is addressed in engineering curriculum. Hence it is necessary foraccredited university programs to incorporate the issue of sustainability in its curriculum.The first step to this is to define sustainable design. Pappas & Olga note 6 that sustainable designpractices in engineering have their roots in two engineering fields, green engineering whichfocuses on designing to be more in tune with the earth and environmental

Conference Session

Faculty Development

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela M. Shartrand, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Ricardo Leon Gomez, National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance (NCIIA); Phil Weilerstein, National Collegiate Inventors & Innovators Alliance (NCIIA)

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Entrepreneurship & Engineering Innovation

. 393, Oct. 2002.[16] L. D. Fink and S. Ambrose, “Becoming a Professional Engineering Educator: A New Role for a New Era,” Journal of Engineering Education, vol. 94, no. 1, pp. 185–194, 2005.[17] A. F. McKenna and B. Yalvac, “Characterizing engineering faculty’s teaching approaches,” Teaching in Higher Education, vol. 12, no. 3, pp. 405–418, Jun. 2007.[18] C. D. Vitto, “Cross-Cultural ‘Soft Skills’ and the Global Engineer: Corporate Best Practices and Trainer Methodologies,” Online Journal for Global Engineering Education, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1–9, 2008.[19] M. Borrego, T. S. Hall, and J. E. Froyd, “Diffusion of Engineering Education Innovations: A Survey of Awareness and Adoption Rates in U.S. Engineering Departments

Conference Session

Design Tools and Methodology II

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Steven Joseph Kirstukas, Central Connecticut State University; Nidal Al-Masoud, Central Connecticut State University

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Design in Engineering Education

. Baumann: 'Assessment of soft-skills for student outcomes using engineering courses', 118th ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 26, 2011 - June 29, 2011, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2011, American Society for Engineering Education. Page 25.222.125. P. Baumann and N. Al-Masoud: 'Design of experiment and Project Management methodologies support a senior project research course and its assessment', 2010 ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, June 20, 2010 - June 23, 2010, Louisville, KY, United states, 2010, American Society for Engineering Education.6. N. Al-Masoud, V. Naoumov, and Z. Prusak: 'NASA

Conference Session

FPD V: Increasing Engagement and Motivation of First-year Students

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Carrie Robinson, Arizona State University; James Collofello, Arizona State University

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First-Year Programs

Program.All UGTAs are also enrolled in a one-credit FSE 294 course called “Engineering UndergraduateLearning Assistant.” The class is facilitated online by the executive coordinator and is offeredfor credit without a grade. From a logistical standpoint, enrolling all UGTAs in one courseimproves communication between the UGTAs and the Engineering Office of Academic andStudent Affairs, provides a communication forum in which all UGTAs can contribute andinteract with each other, and increases accountability of the UGTAs through the semester.Course assignments help to develop the students’ soft skills, promote reflection on their growththrough the semester, and provide a setting in which they are asked to articulate the real-worldexperiences in which

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Geoffrey Bland; Abhijit Nagchaudhuri

formaleducation efforts that goes on in classroom environment. The format allows students to conductactive research, cultivate leadership and learn cooperatively. It allows integration of "soft skills"as well as "technical skills" to provide a holistic learning environment. The learning outcomesfor the project can be summarized as: • Ability to apply knowledge of mathematics, science and engineering; • Ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams; • Ability to integrate knowledge from many different fields; • Ability to design a system, component or process to meet desired needs. • Improved skills of utilizing internet technology for information gathering as well as information dissemination. • Exposure to

Collection

2001 Annual Conference

Authors

Otto Loewer; Ken Vickers; John Ahlen; Greg Salamo

; (iii) increase inthe number of start-ups in Genesis; (iv) number of new innovative products reaching the marketdue to I2 partnership; (v) establishment of an “innovation” culture with students and faculty; (vi)identification of problems suitable for student research theses; (vii) improvement in studentcreativity and related soft-skills, and (viii) demonstrations of the difference the universityenterprise can have on the state economic well being.Assessment of the program effectiveness will focus on these eight features and will be based onquantitative objective measures and by perceptional assessments by students, faculty, smallbusinesses, and student employers. Some quantitative objective measures are easily assessed. For

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1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Stephen R. Fleeman

questions to the AEA and EIA projects.The questions and the project responses are summarized in Table 1.The EIA skill standards are structured to permit their incorporation into EET curricula to developentry-level electronics technicians. The AEA standards were designed to define the standardsrequired for workers already in the workplace.The AEA approach does not lend itself to direct incorporation in a classical EET program. However, theEIA project offers more of a balance between the hard and soft skills. The project is geared towardincorporation of the recommended skill standards within academia. Its stated (and demonstrated) concerntoward evaluation and certification from the onset of the project ensures concrete evaluation methods canbe

Collection

1998 Annual Conference

Authors

Robert K. Tener; Vincent Drnevich

consistent withthat published by ASEE, NSPE, and ASCE. That is, industry is telling us locally as well asnationally that it needs well-rounded graduates who have a broad range of “soft skills” inaddition to the traditional set of engineering abilities. For some programs at least, the influenceof these local customers on educational objectives is significant.Clearly from the above, an engineering education must provide far more than facility withmathematics, science, engineering science, and discipline specific subject matter. Page 3.433.2Accreditation Criteria 4With the

Conference Session

Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED) - Assessment of Design Projects and Approaches to Capstone Courses

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Behzad Beigpourian, University of Tehran; Hannah Budinoff, The University of Arizona; Philipp Gutruf, The University of Arizona; K. Larry Head, The University of Arizona

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Design in Engineering Education Division (DEED)

: 10.1111/j.1949- 8594.1992.tb12159.x.[26] R. M. Felder and R. Brent, “Random thoughts: Hard assessment of soft skills,” Chem. Eng. Educ., vol. 44, no. 1, pp. 63–64, 2010.[27] T. Y. Pang, A. Kootsookos, K. Fox, and E. Pirogova, “Does an assessment rubric provide a better learning experience for undergraduates in developing transferable skills?,” J. Univ. Teach. Learn. Pract., vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 1–27, 2022.[28] D. D. Stevens and A. J. Levi, Introduction to rubrics: An assessment tool to save grading time, convey effective feedback, and promote student learning. Sterling, VA, USA.: Stylus Publishing, 2013.[29] R. Bailey, Z. Szabo, and D. Sabers, “Assessing student learning about engineering design in project-based courses

Conference Session

Biomedical Engineering Division (BED) Technical Session 2

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Adel Alhalawani, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology; Sophia Koop; Thomas Omwando, Simpson University; Lisa Bosman, Purdue University

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Diversity

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Biomedical Engineering Division (BED)

Engineering Students: A Two-StepFramework’, Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2023, 2023, pp. 81668254 Andrews, J., and Higson, H.: ‘Graduate Employability, ‘Soft Skills’ Versus ‘Hard’Business Knowledge: A European Study’, Higher Education in Europe, 2008, 33, (4), pp. 411-4225 Warsame, A.F.: ‘The Gap Between Engineering Education and PostgraduatePreparedness’. Ed.D., Walden University, 20176 Sheppard, S.D., Macatangay, K., Colby, A., and Sullivan, W.M.: ‘Educating Engineers:Designing for the Future of the Field. Book Highlights’, Carnegie Foundation for theAdvancement of Teaching, 20087 Burt, B.A., Carpenter, D.D., Holsapple, M.A., and Finelli, C.J.: ‘Out-of-classroomexperiences: Bridging the disconnect between the

Conference Session

Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM) Technical Session 8

Collection

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mohammad Shokrolah Shirazi, Marian University; Hung-fu Chang

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Diversity

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Educational Research and Methods Division (ERM)

Board forEngineering and Technology (ABET) stresses the significance of incorporating criticalthinking instruction, along with other general engineering expertise (e.g., soft skills) inengineering curriculum through their published student outcomes (Claris and Riley, Email: mshokrolahshirazi@marian.edu2012). Since the connection between CT and problem-solving in engineering is a recurringtheme in the literature, teaching and learning critical thinking should equip differentlevels of problems with varied features that involve appropriate hypotheses, methodsfor experiments, and structuring open design problems (Ahern, Dominguez, McNally,O’Sullivan, and Pedrosa, 2019). On the other hand, the challenging level of the problems is another key