Wagner, L. T., & Milburn, T., & Kecskemety, K. M., & Rhoads, B. (2023, June), Comparing Complexities of the Understanding of the Engineering Mindset
between First-Year and Capstone Students  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43264

\bibitem{asee_peer_43264}
  Wagner, L. T., \& Milburn, T., \& Kecskemety, K. M., \& Rhoads, B. (2023, June), \emph{Comparing Complexities of the Understanding of the Engineering Mindset
between First-Year and Capstone Students}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--43264

Lauren Taylor Wagner, Tyler Milburn, Krista M. Kecskemety, and Bob Rhoads.  "Comparing Complexities of the Understanding of the Engineering Mindset
between First-Year and Capstone Students".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/43264 Internet.  15 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_43264}
  Lauren Taylor Wagner, Tyler Milburn, Krista M. Kecskemety, and Bob Rhoads.
  "Comparing Complexities of the Understanding of the Engineering Mindset
between First-Year and Capstone Students".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/43264 Internet.  15 May, 2024

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AB  - The Engineering Mindset (EM) refers to the values, attitudes, and thinking skills associated with engineering. It is especially important for undergraduate engineering students to understand the Engineering Mindset as it can help those students tackle the challenges they will meet in their professional lives. To examine how well students have been able to understand the Engineering Mindset, students in a first-year engineering course and a multidisciplinary engineering capstone course were asked to make a concept map about the Engineering Mindset. The prompt asked students to complete a concept mapping exercise to benchmark their knowledge about Engineering Mindset that is required in the Engineering Design or Product Development Process. The students were asked to implement a visual representation of ideas for the Engineering Mindset using concept maps, and then the concept maps were scored on the complexity of the students’ understanding of the topic using the traditional concept map scoring method. This method scores concept maps using the number of concepts, the highest hierarchy of the map, and the number of connected concepts between concept branches. The traditional scoring method was completed manually and through an automated tool to compare the scores between the two methods. The purpose of this paper is to examine the difference in understanding of the Engineering Mindset between first-year students and capstone students and understand complexity differences amongst themselves. This paper also includes an examination of how well an automatic scoring program can score concept maps and its potential uses in scoring maps from a large number of students.
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