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Fatma Demir; Ellen Roels; Seppe Terryn; Bram Vanderborght – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
Contribution: This article presents an engineering outreach activity that aims to teach K-12 students how to develop a tendon-based soft robotic finger. The primary objectives of this STEM activity are to introduce students to the fundamentals of soft robotics, its interdisciplinary nature, and to offer them a hands-on and engaging learning…
Descriptors: Outreach Programs, Engineering, STEM Education, Elementary Secondary Education
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Baiyun Chen; Ronald F. DeMara – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2024
The COVID-19 pandemic has introduced challenges to delivering laboratory-based STEM curricula. This study evaluates students' learning experience in a synchronous team design activity within the laboratory component of an undergraduate Computer Engineering course during the pandemic. Using the EduPad digital platform, students collaborated in…
Descriptors: Synchronous Communication, Distance Education, Engineering, STEM Education
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Santos, Pedro Augusto C.; Vitor, Giovani Bernardes; Braga, Rodrigo Aparecido da S.; Santos, Ana Carolina O. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
This article proposes a method/framework to model and quantify engineer competencies from the point of view of students, teachers, and the market. Design/Methodology/Approach: As this work has a practical nature to solve a real problem related to engineering course design, the applied methodology was design science research (DSR). Limitations of…
Descriptors: Engineering, Professional Personnel, Employment Qualifications, Engineering Education
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Dominguez-Reyes, R.; Moreno, L.; Munoz-Sanchez, A.; Ruiz Mezcua, B.; Savoini, B. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: This article presents the design, creation, testing, and results after the use of a 3-D-printed educational tool that helped a blind student learning electric circuits theory in higher education. Background: Educational tools oriented to visually impaired and blind students in higher education are limited or even nonexistent in the…
Descriptors: Computer Peripherals, Printing, Technology Uses in Education, Blindness
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Chen, Juebei; Hasan, Mahmood Ahmed; Du, Xiangyun; Kolmos, Anette – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2023
Contribution: This article illustrates a theoretical model and an analytical tool for understanding the influence of diverse elements of the project-based learning (PBL) environment on engineering identity development in students. Supportive elements in three dimensions that contribute to students' identities as future engineers are identified to…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Active Learning, Student Projects, Influences
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Asfaw, Abraham; Blais, Alexandre; Brown, Kenneth R.; Candelaria, Jonathan; Cantwell, Christopher; Carr, Lincoln D.; Combes, Joshua; Debroy, Dripto M.; Donohue, John M.; Economou, Sophia E.; Edwards, Emily; Fox, Michael F. J.; Girvin, Steven M.; Ho, Alan; Hurst, Hilary M.; Jacob, Zubin; Johnson, Blake R.; Johnston-Halperin, Ezekiel; Joynt, Robert; Kapit, Eliot; Klein-Seetharaman, Judith; Laforest, Martin; Lewandowski, H. J.; Lynn, Theresa W.; McRae, Corey Rae H.; Merzbacher, Celia; Michalakis, Spyridon; Narang, Prineha; Oliver, William D.; Palsberg, Jens; Pappas, David P.; Raymer, Michael G.; Reilly, David J.; Saffman, Mark; Searles, Thomas A.; Shapiro, Jeffrey H.; Singh, Chandralekha – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: A roadmap is provided for building a quantum engineering education program to satisfy U.S. national and international workforce needs. Background: The rapidly growing quantum information science and engineering (QISE) industry will require both quantum-aware and quantum-proficient engineers at the bachelor's level. Research Question:…
Descriptors: Program Development, Engineering Education, Labor Needs, Quantum Mechanics
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Wolfand, Jordyn M.; Bieryla, Kathleen A.; Ivler, Christina M.; Symons, Jennifer E. – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: This article measures the impact of a service-learning project in a first-year introduction to computing course on students' understanding of engineers' roles and responsibilities and their attitudes toward plastic pollution. Background: Service learning has been integrated into classrooms for many years, but its utilization in…
Descriptors: Service Learning, Engineering Education, Student Attitudes, Pollution
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Cipparrone, Flavio A. M.; Consonni, Denise – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2022
Contribution: Two general rules for calculating, in the time domain, step discontinuities of voltages and currents in electric circuits, combining physical principles and basic mathematical treatment. The two general rules, resulting from a formal method of analysis, provide a straightforward way to update the states of a circuit, immediately…
Descriptors: Computation, Electronic Equipment, Time, Simulation
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Call, Tristan; Fox, Erik; Sprint, Gina – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2021
Contribution: Research has shown that computer science (CS) students who start programming assignments (PAs) early generally receive higher grades. This article presents and evaluates a gamification approach that utilizes software engineering tools to motivate CS students to start and finish PAs earlier. Background: CS can be difficult to learn…
Descriptors: Game Based Learning, Computer Software, Engineering, Computer Science Education
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Fukumoto, Hisao; Yamaguchi, Takashi; Ishibashi, Makoto; Furukawa, Tatsuya – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2021
Contribution: This article proposes a low-cost and mobile device-based learning support system for the stepper motor, which provides Web-based remote laboratory. This system allows young engineers to learn about rotational principles, control methods, and programming in stepper motors. Background: Familiarity with electrical machinery, such as…
Descriptors: Laboratory Training, Science Laboratories, Handheld Devices, Laboratory Equipment
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Fitzmorris, Cliff; Shehab, Randa; Trytten, Deborah – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2020
Contribution: This article explores issues of respect and inclusion among full-time non-tenure-track (NTT) electrical engineering faculty. Background: NTT faculty members are an important and growing part of electrical engineering programs in the USA. This article complements prior research on NTT faculty member career satisfaction and…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Nontenured Faculty, Inclusion, Engineering
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Jaime, Arturo; Olarte, Juan J.; Garcia-Izquierdo, Francisco J.; Dominguez, Cesar – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2020
Contribution: Internships designed to provide training and an initial period of contact with industry, prior to a computer science engineering capstone project, have a very positive impact on both industry and academic capstone projects. Background: Internships and capstone projects are widely used to integrate work-related learning in computer…
Descriptors: Internship Programs, Computer Science Education, Engineering, Capstone Experiences
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Cipparrone, Flavio A. M.; Beccaro, Wesley; Kaiser, Walter – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2020
Contribution: A didactic methodology, based on analytical expressions and experimental validation, to describe the process of abrupt current interruption in a series RL circuit, that considers real passive components and uses a toggle switch as disconnecting device. Background: In undergraduate courses, circuits adopted in transient analysis…
Descriptors: Undergraduate Study, Electronics, Equipment, Models
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Zhu, Jiabin; Liu, Rongrong; Liu, Qunqun; Zheng, Tianyi; Zhang, Zhinan – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019
Contribution: This paper qualitative research delineates the thinking and behavioral patterns that reflect students' advanced level of epistemological thinking in project-based learning (PBL) activities and the associated impact factors. Background: PBL has been widely adopted in engineering education for its effectiveness in improving students'…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Epistemology, Models, Active Learning
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Rohde, Jacqueline; Musselman, Lisa; Benedict, Brianna; Verdin, Dina; Godwin, Allison; Kirn, Adam; Benson, Lisa; Potvin, Geoff – IEEE Transactions on Education, 2019
Contribution: This paper found that design experiences can foster engineering identity and belongingness for early career electrical and computer engineering students. Students had different interpretations of what it meant to be an engineer (identity) and their belongingness in engineering. This paper provides novel insights into how students may…
Descriptors: Design, Engineering Education, Self Concept, Engineering
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