Strobel, J., & Radcliffe, D. F., & Yu, J. H., & Nawaz, S., & Luo, Y., & Choi, J. H. (2012, June), Is the Engineering Education Community Becoming More Interdisciplinary?   Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--21621

\bibitem{asee_peer_21621}
  Strobel, J., \& Radcliffe, D. F., \& Yu, J. H., \& Nawaz, S., \& Luo, Y., \& Choi, J. H. (2012, June), \emph{Is the Engineering Education Community Becoming More Interdisciplinary? }
  Paper presented at 2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas.
  10.18260/1-2--21621

Johannes Strobel, David F. Radcliffe, Ji Hyun Yu, Sadia Nawaz, Yi Luo, and Jea Hong Choi.  "Is the Engineering Education Community Becoming More Interdisciplinary? ".  2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2012.  https://peer.asee.org/21621 Internet.  24 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_21621}
  Johannes Strobel, David F. Radcliffe, Ji Hyun Yu, Sadia Nawaz, Yi Luo, and Jea Hong Choi.
  "Is the Engineering Education Community Becoming More Interdisciplinary? ".
  \emph{2012 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, San Antonio, Texas, 2012, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2012.
  https://peer.asee.org/21621 Internet.  24 Jan, 2025

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TY  - CPAPER
AB  - Is the Engineering Education Community Becoming More Interdisciplinary?The transformative potential of technology-enabled communication argues for creating andextending interdisciplinary collaboration among researchers in Engineering Education Research(EER). However, there is a need to establish a theoretical framework to understand and supportthe emergence and sustainability of virtual research collaboration, informally between networksof colleagues and formally within established teams and organizations in EER. A conceptualframework is presented addressing virtual collaboration effectiveness for interdisciplinarity ofEER.Building on prior theoretical and methodological insights from social studies of science andbibliometrics, we address the following research questions: What quantity and types ofengineering education research are currently being done across disciplines (fields)? If significantlocal variations are detected, how do we account for them? What collaborative trends are nowevident in engineering education research, including in terms of the size and interdisciplinarycomposition of research teams?To answer these questions, we have considered that measuring the intellectual diversity encodedin publication records as a proxy to the degree of interdisciplinarity has recently receivedconsiderable attention in the science mapping community. This approach successfully combinedqualitative and quantitative dimensions of diversity, as it consisted of (1) developing a sciencemap, (2) representing the publication record in terms of the map, and (3) subjecting the latterrepresentation to quantitative analysis that was, in turn, sensitive to structural features of themap.Aiming at developing the indicators of interdisciplinarity in the field of Engineering EER, theauthors developed a keyword-based scheme, as a parsimonious list of salient keywords in EER,by collecting bibliographic records from ISI Web of Science® that is a citation index providingaccess to the world’s leading citation databases and journals.Our findings are organized in three main parts. We used co-citation patterns across SubjectCategories (SCs), target subjects (i.e. K-12, higher education, life-long learners), and publicationsources (i.e. journals, proceedings). Based on these aspects, we built up the base map depictingthe current structure of interdisciplinarity, as a demonstration, that of a publication record of anorganization. First, we describe how SCs have been addressed amongst co-cited papers byreporting on the number and percent of co-cited papers appearing in each SC. This providesinsights about the research orientation of these SCs and recent trends in their respectiveorientations. Second, information about the different levels of target subjects amongst co-citedpapers are addressed. Some “enabling factors” are presented to explain particularly high portionsof target subject in certain co-cited author groups. Third and finally, information about thepublication sources allows us to categorize and count articles in a number of major collaborationplaces.This study may contribute to the current knowledge base on interdisciplinary research in EE: (1)engineering education research is operationalized as a sophisticated and systematically derivedset of keywords and (2) the method of the current study may serve as a significant step towardsquantitative analysis of new scientific field.
AU  - Johannes Strobel
AU  - David F. Radcliffe
AU  - Ji Hyun Yu
AU  - Sadia Nawaz
AU  - Yi Luo
AU  - Jea Hong Choi
CY  - San Antonio, Texas
DA  - 2012/06/10
PB  - ASEE Conferences
TI  - Is the Engineering Education Community Becoming More Interdisciplinary? 
UR  - https://peer.asee.org/21621
DO  - 10.18260/1-2--21621
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