Virguez, L., & Dickrell, P. L. (2019, June), Exploring Students’ Class Perceptions in the Development of a First-Year Engineering Design Course  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida. 10.18260/1-2--32810

\bibitem{asee_peer_32810}
  Virguez, L., \& Dickrell, P. L. (2019, June), \emph{Exploring Students’ Class Perceptions in the Development of a First-Year Engineering Design Course}
  Paper presented at 2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida.
  10.18260/1-2--32810

Lilianny Virguez and Pamela L. Dickrell.  "Exploring Students’ Class Perceptions in the Development of a First-Year Engineering Design Course".  2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2019.  https://peer.asee.org/32810 Internet.  21 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_32810}
  Lilianny Virguez and Pamela L. Dickrell.
  "Exploring Students’ Class Perceptions in the Development of a First-Year Engineering Design Course".
  \emph{2019 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition , Tampa, Florida, 2019, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2019.
  https://peer.asee.org/32810 Internet.  21 Dec, 2024

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AB  - Developing effective courses requires inputs from various stakeholders including students. In addition, students’ perceptions of courses and their associated activities have been related to students’ motivation to pursue and persist in an engineering major. Recognizing the importance of these views,  this research paper investigates first year-students’ perceptions of an Engineering Design class that is being developed emphasizing the Human-Centered design process. The course, Engineering Design & Society, is structed as a hands-on approach to human-centered first-year design, where students learn about the human-centered design process, learn maker skills including: solid modeling, 3D printing, microcontroller based sensors, actuators, & programming.  Multidisciplinary groups of students then use those maker skills and the human-centered design process to create a functional prototype to serve a societal based need.  
We used the MUSIC Model of Academic Motivation to explore the ways students perceived the pilot version of the class offered during a Summer term. Qualitative and quantitative data were collected by means of an online survey.  We take a mixed-method approach hoping to adequately represent students’ reasons behind their quantitative scores. We expect to identify aspects of the class that are both meeting the overall course goals and supporting students’ academic motivation as well as aspects of the class that might need improvement according to students’ observations. The results of this analysis will help in the ongoing development of the class and ultimately increase the quality of the new course to better support students’ academic motivation and success. 

AU  - Lilianny Virguez
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