Conference Session

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies: Bring-Your-Own-Experiments 2

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jun Nogami, University of Toronto; Scott Ramsay, University of Toronto; Scott D Ramsay, University of Toronto

Tagged Divisions

Division Experimentation & Lab-Oriented Studies

students, set up a number of experiment stations, and supervise an activity with a lab reporttemplate that could be completed within a 50 minute class period. For this particular lab, eachsection would have three complete sets of the four stations, and students in groups of three orfour would rotate among the stations, spending 5 to10 minutes with each activity. There weremany challenges with the scale of this project as there were typically six parallel sessions run inthis way during a typical fall or winter term. The first year of implementation, there were alsoequipment failures with the suitcases, which were standard oversized luggage. This wasexacerbated by the fact that all of the “atoms” were also steel balls, which were very heavy in

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Mechanical Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

onlyinterest in the topic (and a passionate one), but an education in the humanities” (Kynell, p. 96).Harbarger played several leadership roles in the English Division of the Society for thePromotion of Engineering Education (SPEE) and published widely on the subject of technicalcommunication instruction for engineers. In an article titled “The Qualifications of a Teacher ofEnglish for Engineering Students” (1920) and summarized in a June 1929 report, Harbargerdelineated what might be described as a pyramid of qualifications for success as teacher ofEnglish to engineering students: 1. the personality of the teacher, which obviously affects, 2. the presentation of the material, or the project, and 3. the cooperation of the instructors of the

Conference Session

Design and Assessment of Graduate Curriculum

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Homero Gregorio Murzi, Virginia Tech; Prateek Shekhar, University of Texas, Austin; Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech

Tagged Divisions

Graduate Studies

India.Dr. Lisa D. McNair, Virginia Tech Lisa D. McNair is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she also serves as co-Director of the VT Engineering Communication Center (VTECC). Her research interests include interdisciplinary collaboration, design education, communication studies, identity theory and re- flective practice. Projects supported by the National Science Foundation include exploring disciplines as cultures, interdisciplinary pedagogy for pervasive computing design; writing across the curriculum in Statics courses; as well as a CAREER award to explore the use of e-portfolios to promote professional identity and reflective practice

Conference Session

New Teaching Pedagogies: Methods and Assessments

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James V. Canino, Trine University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Mechanical Engineering

problems on the final hadbeen on previous exams. The scores on the exams were the primary mechanism for evaluatingthe efficacy of the flipped classroom pedagogy over the Think-Pair-Share pedagogy.Moreover, neither the author nor the students knew which pedagogy would be used beforeregistering for the Fall 2013 classes. The author had previous experience with the flippedclassroom and believes that it is important to have students in a classroom where they can gatherin small groups around tables and collaborate.20 Trine University has a Project-Based Learning(PBL) classroom that has movable tables so that students can more easily collaborate. Thisclassroom is generally used by the School of Education, but can be used by other faculty subjectto

Conference Session

Civil Engineering Division Poster Session

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James L. Hanson, California Polytechnic State University; Amro El Badawy; Katherine C. Chen, California Polytechnic State University; Nazli Yesiller

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering

project weresignificant.-The multi-departmental exercise benefitted both courses.-The different levels of students participating in the exercise (graduate versus undergraduatestudents) did not adversely impact the quality of the interactions.-Expansion of engineering courses to include conflicting priorities for design is beneficial for preparing students for a multidisciplinary workforce.-Identifying challenges and formulating solutions are both beneficial for the engineering curriculum.-The methodology described is well suited to adaptation and/or adoption by other courses in the same disciplines as described herein as well as by other disciplines.-For future applications, including synchronous interaction for cross-departmental activities is

Conference Session

Continuing Professional Development Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mitchell L Springer PMP, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Mark T Schuver, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thomas J Brumm, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Continuing Professional Development

systems. He is internationally recognized, has contributed to scholarship more than 150 articles, presentations, books and reviews on software development methodologies, management, organizational change, and program management. Dr. Springer sits on many university and community boards and advisory committees. He received his Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University, his MBA and Doctorate in Adult and Community Education with a Cognate in Executive Development from Ball State University. Dr. Springer is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR & SHRM-SCP), in Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR), and, in civil and domestic mediation. He

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2015 ASEE Workshop on K-12 Engineering Education

Authors

Larry G. Richards, University of Virginia

development and skill levels forstudents in those grades. Teams will report out on their experiences at the end of the workshop.• Concluding activities and discussionsParticipants will reflect on how these activities and materials can be used in their classes. Wewill review "engineering habits of mind" and 21st Century skills; how the engineering designprocess can integrate topics from science, math, history, and communication arts, and engagestudents via project-based learning.StandardsApplicable national standards for the selected ETKs appear at the end of this application as percommunication with Ms. Hurd. Please note that all of the ETKs are grounded in Virginia'sStandards of Learning in math and science; many also match to standards in other

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Linda Laird; Ye Yang

. Speakers will be faculty, career centerstaff, and members of industry. The initial title of the series is “Surviving and Thriving in Tech.” Component 12: Leadership and Soft Skills: These students are expected to enter theprogram with good interpersonal and communications skills – skills that are highly needed andcan give them a competitive advantage in the high-tech workplace. Leadership skills willexplicitly be addressed as part of the architecture and requirements courses. Throughout thecourse work, and especially in the design/build courses, these skills will be practiced andreinforced through class work and team projects. Component 13: Technical Skills: These students will gain excellent technical skills fromtheir classes and work

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Thomas Ask

beingcreative and therefore the individuals within the group also consider themselves creative.The connection between collaboration and creativity appears to be an innate need. Thepsychologist Howard Gruber notes: “Creative people must use their skills to devise environmentsthat foster their work. They invent new peer groups appropriate to their projects.” 5 Theimportance of contemporaneous collaboration can be seen in art and science such as with Picassoand Braque in their artistic pursuits leading to Cubism and Einstein and Grossman in developingmathematical expressions suitable for describing relativity.Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova UniversityBounded RationalityCreative expression acts under the domain of the

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2015 Spring ASEE Middle Atlantic Section Conference

Authors

Anurag Purwar; Pranav Korrapati; Q. J. Ge; Xin Ge

Design Innovation class work has been supported by a SUNY IITG award.1 Spring 2015 Mid-Atlantic ASEE Conference, April 10-11, 2015 Villanova Universityenabled by the spreading of membership based DIYand/or DIWO (DoITWithOthers) hobby shops suchas MIT’s hobby shop4 and TechShop.5 Another is the availability of low-cost digital manufac-turing tools or 3D printers and online 3D print services such shapeways.com6 and open-sourceelectronics prototyping platforms, such as Arduino.7 And, a third one is the crowd-funding ofinnovative projects at kickstarter8 or indiegogo.9 Not only have these hobby shops, 3D printingoutfits, and non-traditional funding platforms become profitable businesses, they are also servingas casual

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Naser M. Alajmi; Khaled M. Elleithy

25 years of teaching experience. His teaching evaluations are distinguished inall the universities he joined. He supervised hundreds of senior projects, MS theses and Ph.D.dissertations. He supervised several Ph.D. students. He developed and introduced many newundergraduate/graduate courses. He also developed new teaching / research laboratories in his area ofexpertise.Dr. Elleithy is the editor or co-editor for 12 books by Springer. He is a member of technical programcommittees of many international conferences as recognition of his research qualifications. He served as aguest editor for several International Journals. He was the chairman for the International Conference onIndustrial Electronics, Technology & Automation, IETA 2001, 19

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2015 Northeast Section Meeting

Authors

Ramadhan J. Mstafa; Khaled M. Elleithy

communications, network security, quantumcomputing, and formal approaches for design and verification. He has published more than threehundred research papers in international journals and conferences in his areas of expertise. Dr.Elleithy has more than 25 years of teaching experience. His teaching evaluations aredistinguished in all the universities he joined. He supervised hundreds of senior projects, MStheses and Ph.D. dissertations. He supervised several Ph.D. students. He developed andintroduced many new undergraduate/graduate courses. He also developed new teaching /research laboratories in his area of expertise. Dr. Elleithy is the editor or co-editor for 12 booksby Springer. He is a member of technical program committees of many international

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

M. Mohammad Ali; Hassan Badkoobehi

35.0 100.0 n0 32.4 35.0 45.0 2 s0 102.0 30.0 148.0 w0 0.002 25.0 0.0025 e0 0.042 30 0.053The range, a, of the variogram can be interpreted as the diameter of the zone of influence whichrepresents the average maximum distance over which a soil property is spatially related. In ourstudy this distance was found to be 5.5 to 8 miles which is large relative to the distance over whichsoils are usually sampled for laboratory tests for a particular project, This suggest that

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Cory Mettler; Nathan Ziegler

means that fewerstudents dropped or transferred out of the program due to poor grades, boredom, or frustration.Overall, this study has been a definitive success. Every outcome in both parts of the study eitherwere successfully implemented or, at least, appear to be so according to the data collected thusfar. With no increased workload or loss of material coverage, and with such positive results, thisinstructor will continue to implement active teaching methods whenever possible.References1. J. Amador, L. Miles and C. Peters, "The practice of Problem Based Learning: A Guide to implementing PBL in the College Classroom," San Francisco: Jossey-Bass., 2007.2. J. Thomas, "A review of research on project-based learning," San Rafael, CA

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Norman D. Dennis; Edgar C. Clausen

”, as presented ion Figure 3, was purported to be the underpinnings of the teaching strategies needed to be an effective teacher. While the Model Instructional Strategies is “what the students need,” the ExCEEd Teaching Model is “what the teacher needs to do to effectively execute the strategy.” The remainder of the seminars were all linked to elements of the Instructional Strategy and the Teaching Model.3. Speaking. Relating to the element of engagement in the ExCEEd Teaching Model, the minimum essential qualities of verbal communication (projection, articulation and variation in volume, speed, and pitch) were demonstrated and practiced by the participants through several exercises. Several mechanisms for stimulating positive

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Goutham Chinni; Israel Belachew; Ramazan Asmatulu

., accessed in July 9, 2015.20) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Rataguera/draft, accessed in July 14, 2015.Biographical InformationGoutham ChinniMr. Goutham is a MS student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Wichita StateUniversity (WSU), and has been working on the biodiesel related projects. He will graduate inMay 2016.Israel Belachew © American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 2015 ASEE Zone III Conference (Gulf Southwest – Midwest – North Midwest Sections)Mr. Israel is a BS student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at WSU, and has astrong interests in the renewable energy systems. He will graduate in May 2015, and will join

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Francisco Lourenco; Nian Zhang; Sasan Haghani

regularly review and assess local trends and projections of how hydrologicconditions might change in the coming decades. Under the set of cooperative agreements whichgovern water supply planning and management in the Washington Metropolitan Area, the area’sthree main water suppliers are committed to conducting regular forecasts of future demands andresources.Climate change will likely add additional stress to a system facing the challenge of futurepopulation growth. The region’s suppliers are also committed by cooperative agreements toincrease water availability if assessments determine a need to do so. This could be done byfunding structural solutions and/or other means of ensuring a reliable supply. To this end, studieson alternatives to increase

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Sara E. Wilson

understanding of the literature and their own research findings. Such acandidate may have started under the direct guidance of the advisor, but has moved tothe role of independent researcher. This can be evidenced by a dissertation that is asignificant departure from the advisor’s writings, grants, and other work. It may also beevidenced by a dissertation defense discussion where the candidate is able to explain howthey moved the research in new and original directions. An acceptable dissertation levelcandidate will have developed some original ideas and contributions within adissertation project. However, their research is mostly based in the advisor’s researchdirection and proposals. An inadequate candidate has little understanding of theresearch

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2015 ASEE Zone 3 Conference

Authors

Steve E. Watkins

Member Conduct Committee, “ IEEE Student Ethics Competition,” (Accessed 2015). Available: http://www.ieee.org/about/ethics/competition.html.8. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), “Center for Engineering Ethics and Society,” (Accessed 2015). Available: http://www.nae.edu/Projects/CEES.aspx.9. National Academy of Engineering (NAE), “Online Ethics Center for Engineering and Science,” (Accessed 2015). Available: http://www.onlineethics.org.10. Cindy Williams, Intel’s Pentium Chip Crisis: An Ethical Analysis,” IEEE Trans. Of Professional Communication, 40(1), pp. 13-19, 1997.Biographical InformationDR. STEVE E. WATKINS is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at MissouriUniversity of Science and

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Devin D. Cook

layouts and shapes varies between solutions, but, overall the notation is compatible.Unfortunately, these solutions do not sufficiently address the issues regarding semantics nor dothey provide a learning path for students.Future WorkCurrently the software is only available on Microsoft Windows. Since the source was written inMicrosoft C#, efforts will be made to cross-compile it to both Macintosh and Linux. Also, futureversions will feature multi-lingual support. The project website, www.flowgorithm.org, willcontinue to be enhanced with examples, documentation, and relevant information.Additional programming languages will be supported, as needed, by the Source Code Viewer.These include Perl, Objective-C, and Ada. The language itself can also be

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2015 Pacific Southwest Section Meeting

Authors

Eric J. White; George Jing; Sandrine Fischer

. To illustrate this, we consider the TIPP classification mentioned inthe Introduction. TIPP classifies exercises by knowledge type (information and mentalprocedures), which are further divided into six increasingly reflective processes. Homeworkexercises were selected from one chapter of an introductory physics textbook5 used at a largepolytechnic state university. Exercises were classified by two students and one instructoraffiliated with the phiMap project. Figure 6 displays the frequency of exercises per TIPPcategory for this chapter. For this sample audit, we consider only the first three cognitiveprocesses, which in the figure correspond to retrieval (1a–b), comprehension (2a–b), and analysis(3a–e). Note that higher levels (knowledge

Conference Session

The Human Element of Librarianship

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bertha P. Chang, North Carolina State University; Honora N. Eskridge, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Libraries

display. They were alsoexplicit in their needs for projection in meeting spaces. High resolution and accurate colorrepresentation were of critical importance to allow them to discuss and analyze their research.The ability to display a variety of media and to run audio and video files was also a priority.Collections and ServicesFaculty and students also shared many comments about collections and services in the variousstudies. A major change with Hunt Library was the use of the bookBot, an automated retrievalsystem (ARS) to store the majority of the engineering collection. Of approximately 400,000volumes, only about 30,000 are available on open shelving; these are newer books published inengineering and textiles subjects, as well as some

Conference Session

ETAC/ABET Related Issues

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark A. Laingen, Illinois State University; Steven A. Freeman, Iowa State University; Thomas J Brumm, Iowa State University; Mack Shelley, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Technology

ofimportant program learning outcomes, while over 67% identify internships and community-based projects as useful in “evaluating the graduates’ potential for success” [2, p. 18], and half ofthe employers target them as the place where institutions should devote the most resources forassessment [2]. Experiential learning environments provide places where “knowledge is created throughthe transformation of experience” [14, p. 41], while enhancing their learning experience [13]. Itis an authentic assessment environment that more closely simulates later types of learningsituations, and is “one of the truest forms of active learning” [16, p. 80] where students candemonstrate their knowledge and skills, and receive valuable feedback from the

Conference Session

Circuits and Systems Education 1

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Nicole P Pitterson, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Ruth A. Streveler, Purdue University, West Lafayette

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Electrical and Computer

standardized performance on the tests. Students alsoEnabled active John Sciences, of the TEAL project on tests, multiple reported an appreciation for thelearning affect 2009 students' cognitive and choice and learning experience and that theirundergraduate affective outcomes. Students' open ended understanding was significantlystudents' conceptual understanding items impacted by the innovative approachunderstanding of

Conference Session

Survey and Assessment Development

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David L. Little II, Oregon State University; Kathleen Quardokus Fisher, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University; Milo Koretsky, Oregon State University; Jana Bouwma-Gearhart, Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

Dr. Kathleen Quardokus Fisher is a post doctoral scholar at Oregon State University. She is currently participating in a project that supports the use of evidence-based instructional practices in undergraduate STEM courses through developing communities of practice. Her research interests focus on understanding how organizational change occurs in higher education with respect to teaching and learning in STEM courses.Dr. Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University Shane Brown is an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Oregon State University. His research interests include conceptual change and situated cognition. He received the NSF CAREER award in 2010 and is working on a

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions I: Communication in Engineering Disciplines

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mike Ekoniak, Virginia Tech; Molly Scanlon, Virginia Tech; M. Jean Mohammadi-Aragh, Mississippi State University

Tagged Divisions

Civil Engineering, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society

in the eastern United States. Allfirst-year engineering students at the study site take a common course sequence preparing themto enter their chosen engineering discipline at the end of the freshman year, with studentsintending to major in electrical and computer engineering or computer science taking a second-semester course with an emphasis on computing and circuits. This course was the setting for thisstudy, with data collection occurring in the 2012-2013 academic year. Course content includedan introduction to ECE concepts including programming and analysis in MATLAB, and basiccircuits and sensors culminating in a half-semester team-based engineering design project andreport. In the first half of the semester, students engaged in a

Conference Session

Engineering Ethics Division Technical Session 4

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Edwin R. Schmeckpeper P.E., Norwich University; Ashley Ater Kranov, Washington State University; Steven W. Beyerlein, University of Idaho, Moscow; Patrick D. Pedrow P.E., Washington State University; Jay Patrick McCormack, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Engineering Ethics

class period to review and discuss the results. The detailed facilitation plan forimplementing the EPSA in a course is shown in Appendix E, table E-1.At Norwich University all assessment of the student discussions was conducted in real-time, Page 26.1689.4during the discussions. Instead of using electronic voice recorders as is typically done by theresearchers on the NSF sponsored project, all data was collected as the discussions took place,  with the assessors simply writing tally marks and notes directly on the relevant portion of theEPSA Rubric.The students in each class were divided into teams. Some members of the team were assignedthe role of

Conference Session

NSF Grantees’ Poster Session

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gisele Ragusa, University of Southern California

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

solving for students to persistin engineering majors.3 Accordingly, this engineering education seeks to examine a sample ofnon-traditional college students enrolled in science and engineering programs in four urbancommunity colleges to determine (a) the types and frequency of support practices they utilize,(b) how such practices influence their achievement, persistence and transfer status to four yearcolleges and universities, and (c) how in turn their propensity for innovation and creativeproblem solving affects such choices and persistence. This paper presents on the first year of athree-stage research project funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). The value of thestudy’s findings depends largely on an exploratory research design

Conference Session

Women in Engineering Division: Student Issues as Related to Culture

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Beth A. Powell, Tennessee Technological University; Joanna Wolfe, Carnegie Mellon University

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Women in Engineering

then it came time to start to talk about the project. In the morning, all of the questions were directed towards my [male] peers. (Female professional)Female students often provided specific examples in which women were either directly orindirectly discouraged from pursuing engineering: I did International Science Fairs, or I did a science fair, and I competed at the International Science Fair twice when I was in high school. One time, one of the judges was like, “I can't believe this—” He was talking in a group of other people, and he was like, “I can't believe that girl did that work.” I was, “Uh.” (Female student) I was in India two years ago, and we went to this woman’s college and on the way back

Conference Session

Concepts and Conceptual Knowledge

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lauren Suzanne Wallace; Floraliza Bornilla Bornasal, Oregon State University; Shane A. Brown P.E., Oregon State University

Tagged Divisions

Educational Research and Methods

cognitivelyinclined—a concept is a single thing that is non-negotiable and has a specified approach. In theworkplace, concepts may function differently as posed beyond these ideals. Concepts may besituated, distributed, and pragmatic, and may be negotiated according to the project at hand.This study initiates a series of studies proposing the malleability of concepts in the workplace Page 26.391.2that is not actively addressed in academia and engineering instruction. Studies regarding thevalidity of the utilization of resources in academia with concerns to preparedness for theworkplace is very sparse. This study attempts to provide insight into this gap in