Zajdel, T. J., & Connell Pensky, A. E. (2023, June), Board 88: Work in Progress: Impact of Electronics Design Experience on Non-majors’ Self-efficacy and Identity  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43243

\bibitem{asee_peer_43243}
  Zajdel, T. J., \& Connell Pensky, A. E. (2023, June), \emph{Board 88: Work in Progress: Impact of Electronics Design Experience on Non-majors’ Self-efficacy and Identity}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--43243

Tom J. Zajdel and Allison E. Connell Pensky.  "Board 88: Work in Progress: Impact of Electronics Design Experience on Non-majors’ Self-efficacy and Identity".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/43243 Internet.  10 Oct, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_43243}
  Tom J. Zajdel and Allison E. Connell Pensky.
  "Board 88: Work in Progress: Impact of Electronics Design Experience on Non-majors’ Self-efficacy and Identity".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/43243 Internet.  10 Oct, 2024

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AB  - Before the advent of the internet, electronics hobbyists embarked on lifelong learning journeys with instructional books such as Forrest Mims III’s Getting Started in Electronics. Prototyping circuits with physical components provided mastery experiences that built a sense of personal self-efficacy and identity as an engineer, launching many engineering careers. We advocate for providing these mastery experiences to non-electrical engineering majors to develop technical literacy. To this end, we developed an electronics course aimed at a broad, interdisciplinary audience which guided students through a series of projects teaching the fundamentals of soldering, circuits, and microcontrollers, then a guided, open-ended circuit design project. We measured self-efficacy and sense of identity before and after participating in the design project. We found a 13% increase in self-efficacy for engineering skills, but no significant change in identity as a "maker" or an engineer. These results are interpreted in light of the strengths and limits of this teaching-as-educational-research project. We propose modifications for an ongoing research study to further contextualize and develop these findings.
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