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Board 224: Characterizing Design Activity Engagement: A Summary of Insights from Year Two

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Conference

2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Portland, Oregon

Publication Date

June 23, 2024

Start Date

June 23, 2024

End Date

June 26, 2024

Conference Session

NSF Grantees Poster Session

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NSF Grantees Poster Session

Page Count

5

DOI

10.18260/1-2--46793

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https://peer.asee.org/46793

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53

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Elliott Clement Oregon State University

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Elliott Clement is a doctoral student at Oregon State University. His current research is using grounded theory to understand identity and motivation within the context of capstone design courses. He is also part of a research team investigating context-specific affordances and barriers faculty face when adopting evidence-based instructional practices in their engineering courses.

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James L. Huff University of Georgia Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0002-6693-5808

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Dr. James Huff is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education and Honors College Faculty Fellow at Harding University. He conducts transdisciplinary research on identity that lies at the nexus of applied psychology and engineering education. A recipient of the NSF CAREER grant (No. 2045392) and the director of the Beyond Professional Identity (BPI) lab, Dr. Huff has mentored numerous undergraduate students, doctoral students, and academic professionals from more than 10 academic disciplines in using interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) as a qualitative research method to examine identity and shame in a variety of contexts. Dr. Huff serves as Associate Editor for Studies in Engineering Education, Journal of Engineering Education, and is on the Editorial Board of Personality and Social Psychology Review. He has a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Harding University, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Education from Purdue University.

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Shane A. Brown P.E. Oregon State University Orcid 16x16 orcid.org/0000-0003-3669-8407

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Shane Brown is an associate professor and Associate School Head 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

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Abstract

In this paper, we aim to summarize our efforts to understand how the identities of civil and mechanical engineering students engaged in capstone projects relate to their engagement in design activity. Building upon our previous introductory study, we share insights from the content analysis of interviews with civil and mechanical engineering students engaged in capstone design courses and report initial findings related to how students’ self-perception as engineers impacts their role within the capstone team.

Clement, E., & Huff, J. L., & Brown, S. A. (2024, June), Board 224: Characterizing Design Activity Engagement: A Summary of Insights from Year Two Paper presented at 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Portland, Oregon. 10.18260/1-2--46793

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