Roth, M., & Miskioglu, E., & Carberry, A. R., & Martin, K. M. (2023, June), Characterizing Perceptions of Engineering Intuition Based on Experience and Gender  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43183

\bibitem{asee_peer_43183}
  Roth, M., \& Miskioglu, E., \& Carberry, A. R., \& Martin, K. M. (2023, June), \emph{Characterizing Perceptions of Engineering Intuition Based on Experience and Gender}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--43183

Madeline Roth, Elif Miskioglu, Adam R. Carberry, and Kaela M. Martin.  "Characterizing Perceptions of Engineering Intuition Based on Experience and Gender".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/43183 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_43183}
  Madeline Roth, Elif Miskioglu, Adam R. Carberry, and Kaela M. Martin.
  "Characterizing Perceptions of Engineering Intuition Based on Experience and Gender".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/43183 Internet.  15 Dec, 2024

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title = "Characterizing Perceptions of Engineering Intuition Based on Experience and Gender"
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AB  - This full paper explores perceptions of intuition among engineering practitioners. Intuition is a characteristic of an expert that plays a role in many professional fields, including engineering. Interviews were conducted with 27 engineering practitioners with up to 26+ years of experience to better understand perceptions and development of intuition in an engineering context. The interviews had three areas of focus: expertise, decision-making, and intuition. This paper considers the area of intuition by addressing the following research questions: ‘How would you define engineering intuition?’ and ‘How does engineering intuition develop?’ Previous work has suggested gendered patterns of how practitioners discuss their expertise and the importance of experience in the development of intuition. These findings informed our specific interest in how level of experience or gender may affect participant responses regarding intuition. Qualitative coding of participant interviews showed that level of experience had no influence on how individuals defined engineering intuition. Gender comparisons revealed men to more often define intuition on the basis of innate ability or gut feeling whereas women more often defined the concept on the basis of past experiences. All participants highlighted the importance of experience in the development of intuition and provided multiple examples of helpful experiences they had, or wished they had experienced, which further underscores the importance of experience. The universal emphasis on experience’s role in intuition development coupled with emergent gender difference in perception of intuition may point to the fact that experiences are not equally available to, or experienced in the same way, for all engineers. This suggests that providing equitable and diverse experiences in engineering education may be critical to foster intuition development.
AU  - Madeline Roth
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TI  - Characterizing Perceptions of Engineering Intuition Based on Experience and Gender
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