Oplinger, J. L., & Heiman, A. M., & Dickens, M., & Foster, C. H., & Jordan, S. S., & Lande, M. (2014, June), Making and Engineering: Understanding Similarities and Differences  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana. 10.18260/1-2--22814

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  Oplinger, J. L., \& Heiman, A. M., \& Dickens, M., \& Foster, C. H., \& Jordan, S. S., \& Lande, M. (2014, June), \emph{Making and Engineering: Understanding Similarities and Differences}
  Paper presented at 2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana.
  10.18260/1-2--22814

James Logan Oplinger, Andrew Michael Heiman, Matthew Dickens, Chrissy Hobson Foster, Shawn S. Jordan, and Micah Lande.  "Making and Engineering: Understanding Similarities and Differences".  2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2014.  https://216.185.13.187/22814 Internet.  25 Jun, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_22814}
  James Logan Oplinger, Andrew Michael Heiman, Matthew Dickens, Chrissy Hobson Foster, Shawn S. Jordan, and Micah Lande.
  "Making and Engineering: Understanding Similarities and Differences".
  \emph{2014 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Indianapolis, Indiana, 2014, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2014.
  https://216.185.13.187/22814 Internet.  25 Jun, 2024

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AB  -                         What is Making? What is Engineering?        Makers are an emerging community of self-described DIY-enthusiasts, tinkerersand hobbyists. Popularized by the quarterly magazine MAKE and annual Maker Faireevents, this work seeks to examine and better understand the context of their activities,particularly in informal engineering education and tinkering activities. Makers emboldencharacteristics from the Engineer of 2020, and in particular practical ingenuity, creativity,and propensity toward lifelong learning; making is of particular interest to the field ofengineering and to engineering educators.        We explore what it means to make. A review of definitions was undertaken viatwo methods. The first was convergent, relying on a literature review spanning severalacademic disciplines. The second means was divergent, collecting definitions via an ad-hoc, grounded, in-situ approach at two recent Maker Faire events. Respondents wereprovided with post-it notes, posed with the questions “What is Making?”, “What isengineering?”, and “Why are you attracted to making?”, and asked to contribute to ashared, public wall of multiple definitions. Both approaches yield information that can beused to characterize perceptions of making and contribute to its definition. This analysisrepresents a second iteration and builds from a collection of post-its asking respondentsto answer the question, “How do you define Making?”.       Preliminary findings have shown several common terms and perceptions that canbe used to define making. Words such as maker, hacker and hobbyist appear in severalvarying contexts, from education to history, and in the context of the maker movement.The open-ended question activity also had interesting trends. Many responses describedbuilding or making of something from a creative viewpoint.         This work is a first step. These methods helped to characterize making in amanner that can be useful to a larger study investigating the educational pathways ofMakers. Using qualitative research methods of critical incident, artifact, and contextelicitation interviews, we are developing a theory describing Makers and theirengineering education pathways. Our primary research questions are: What knowledge,skills, and attitudes do Makers possess that could be related to engineering? and How dopathways of Makers intersect with engineering? The study will advance the currentlylimited knowledge of the Maker community by developing theory characterizing Makersand their pathways through the lens of formal engineering education. The aim is toestablish evidence as to how Makers embody specific attributes of the Engineer of 2020and discover additional attributes of Makers that could define the engineer of the future.
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