Investigating the Transferability of the Productive Beginnings of Engineering Judgment Framework from Statics to Dynamics
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Minneapolis, MN
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August 23, 2022
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June 26, 2022
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June 29, 2022
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18
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10.18260/1-2--41140
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https://peer.asee.org/41140
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265
Paper Authors
Jessica Swenson University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Jessica Swenson is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo. She was awarded her doctorate and masters from Tufts University in mechanical engineering and STEM education respectively, and completed postdoctoral work at the University of Michigan Her current research involves examining different types of homework problems in undergraduate engineering science courses, flexible classroom spaces, active learning, responsive teaching, and elementary school engineering teachers.
Aaron Johnson University of Michigan
Aaron W. Johnson is an Assistant Professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department and a Core Faculty member of the Engineering Education Research Program at the University of Michigan. He believes in a strong connection between engineering education research and practice, and his research leverages his experience teaching engineering science courses to bridge the gap between theoretical, well-defined coursework and ill-defined, sociotechnical engineering practice. Aaron holds a B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Michigan, and a Ph.D. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Prior to re-joining Michigan, he was an instructor in Aerospace Engineering Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder. Aaron enjoys reading, collecting LEGO NASA sets, biking, camping, and playing disc golf.
Max Magee
Max Magee is an undergraduate research assistant in the Department of Engineering Education at the University at Buffalo. He is majoring in Aerospace Engineering and minoring in Law and Mathematics and set to graduate in May 2023. After graduation, Max plans on seeking employment in the Aerospace field, preferably working with space craft.
Melissa Caserto University at Buffalo, The State University of New York
Abstract
This research paper examines students’ productive beginnings of engineering judgement while solving open-ended problems in a second-year dynamics course. Undergraduate students are typically assigned well-structured textbook problems for homework, in which the systems have already been simplified and there are few, if any, open-ended decisions to be made. Therefore, students have few opportunities in class to practice their engineering judgment until capstone design courses. We have developed a framework of the productive beginnings of engineering judgment with data from open-ended modeling problems in statics courses. In this paper we investigate how the framework transfers to open-ended modeling problems in dynamics courses. This analysis suggests our framework is transferable to dynamics courses, with all fourteen types of judgement found in the dynamics data set and no additional ways of engaging in judgement were found.
Keywords: Dynamics, modeling, problem solving, engineering judgement
Swenson, J., & Johnson, A., & Magee, M., & Caserto, M. (2022, August), Investigating the Transferability of the Productive Beginnings of Engineering Judgment Framework from Statics to Dynamics Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41140
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