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The Impact of Students’ Grit & Project Ownership on Students’ Learning Outcomes in Maker-based Cornerstone Engineering Design Courses

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Conference

2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Location

Minneapolis, MN

Publication Date

August 23, 2022

Start Date

June 26, 2022

End Date

June 29, 2022

Conference Session

ERM: Design!

Page Count

20

DOI

10.18260/1-2--41083

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https://peer.asee.org/41083

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352

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Mohamed Jalal University of Ottawa

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Mohamed Jalal is a recent PhD graduate from the University of Ottawa in Ontario. His primary research was focused on engineering design education, makerspaces and innovation. He is a licensed professional engineer in Ontario, Canada with a background in mechanical engineering. He earned a B.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Khartoum, Sudan, a Masters of Engineering Management from and a Ph.D. in Digital Transformation and Innovation from the the University of Ottawa, Ontario.

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Hanan Anis University of Ottawa

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Abstract

The increasing presence of makerspaces in university campuses is encouraging engineering educators to incorporate making activities and projects to their curriculum. Making activities and project allow engineering educators to offer students authentic, experiential learning opportunities that foster collaboration, creativity and innovation and can help students develop critical skills such as teamwork, problem solving, research, and entrepreneurial, leadership and management skills. This current study explores the impact of students’ grit and project ownership on their learning outcomes over and beyond students’ Big-Five personality traits in a cornerstone engineering design course that is based on making projects. The results indicate that grit as a higher-order construct is not associated with students’ academic success or level of contribution in their team’s projects in a collaborative, authentic learning environment. Also, the results indicate that the personality traits of agreeableness, extraversion along with students’ adaptability to changes in life circumstances is associated with their development of intellectual and emotional ownership of their making projects. However, project ownership was not associated with students’ academic success or level of contribution to their team’s projects.

Jalal, M., & Anis, H. (2022, August), The Impact of Students’ Grit & Project Ownership on Students’ Learning Outcomes in Maker-based Cornerstone Engineering Design Courses Paper presented at 2022 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Minneapolis, MN. 10.18260/1-2--41083

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