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Gainsburg, Julie – Journal of Engineering Education, 2015
Background: This study was motivated by the ubiquity and apparent usefulness of general epistemological development schemes, notably that of William J. Perry, Jr., in engineering education, but also by limitations that derive from their generality. Purpose/Hypothesis: Empirical data were used to articulate engineering students' epistemological…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Epistemology, Student Attitudes, Mathematics
Gainsburg, Julie – 2003
The everyday mathematics processes of structural engineers were studied and analyzed in terms of abstraction. A main purpose of the study was to explore the degree to which the notion of a gap between school and everyday mathematics holds when the scope of practices considered "everyday" is extended. J. Lave (1988) promoted a methodology…
Descriptors: Civil Engineering, Engineers, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Skills