to cultivate and evaluate supportive teaching and learning networks in engineering departments and colleges. He received his doctoral degree in Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where he was a recipient of the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. His dissertation studied the teaching practices of engineering instructors during game-based learning activities, and how these practices affected student motivation. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2025 WIP: Evaluating the impacts of an integrated, project-based approach to biomedical engineering laboratory teachingIntroductionEngineering laboratory courses serve as a vital component of the engineering
the classrooms[9], [10]. Other contexts and facets of student perceptions include biases [11], [12], teacherhumor and classroom climate [13], use of social media in teaching [14], and teachingeffectiveness, which large part of the research focuses on teaching evaluations [15], [16], [17].Although research on student perceptions of instructors’ or teachers’ behaviors is abundant andhas shown to be capable of shaping student outcomes, scholarship on student perceptions ofinstructors’ teaching beliefs or intentions is generally scarce in engineering education. From themotivation perspective, especially motivation to learn, understanding perceptions of beliefs orintentions can be important in shaping learning. In the Situated Expectancy Value