Work in progress - behavioral aspects of student engineering design experiences

Karanian, Barbara A.; Chedid, L.G.; Lande, Micah; Monaghan, Gloria

doi:10.1109/fie.2008.4720672

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“…In recent years, many engineering educators incorporated project-based learning (PBL) to stimulate the students' interest via real-world design practice and positive impact on student learning outcomes were reported [1,2].This educational practice also prompted researchers to investigate the effectiveness of PBL in engineering classrooms [3,4]. The studies reported in literatures provided valuable insight on how to design better PBL experience for engineering students [5].…”

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A Case Study: How Collaborative PBL Affects Learning of Minority Students in Engineering Courses at Senior Level

Dong¹,

Chen²

2014 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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This paper presents the current progress and preliminary findings of an NSF sponsored interdisciplinary research project that studies how collaborative PBL affects the self-efficacy of minority students in engineering. To achieve the project objectives, research activities are conducted collaboratively between an experienced engineering faculty and a learning scientist with substantial expertise on knowledge building communities and instructional system design. The first stage of the research is an empirical study performed in a pilot course (EE440) that employed CPBL to analyze its impact and develop a better understanding of the learning characteristic of minority students. This paper focuses on describing the research method and data analysis during the first stage. Preliminary findings identified critical factors in CPBL model that positively impacted the student learning process, and also indicated a few areas of improvement to enhance the effectiveness of the pedagogy. In the next research stage, the stage one study results will be applied to design a better instructional system based on the participatory design strategy.

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A Case Study: How Collaborative PBL Affects Learning of Minority Students in Engineering Courses at Senior Level

Dong¹,

Chen²

2014 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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“…Project-based Learning (PBL) pedagogy has been widely accepted by many educators in engineering fields [2][3][4][5][6]. However, the effectiveness of PBL is highly dependent on implementation.…”

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Improving Project-based Learning via Remote OPNET-based Lab Sequence in Undergraduate Computer Networking Curriculum

Dong

Guo

2012 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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is a professor in electrical and computer engineering at CSULA. Her area of expertise is video compression/communication, multimedia networks, QoS, etc. As the PI of the NSF CCLI Project entitled "Enhancing undergraduate computer networking curriculum using remote project-based learning," she works closely with colleagues from computer science to redesign the network curriculum to integrate project-based and inquiry-based learning.

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“…To help students develop such valuable skills, project-based learning (PBL) has been considered as a useful pedagogy by many engineering/CS educators. However, it is also recognized that PBL may not always function if not designed and integrated in the curriculum appropriately [1][2][3][4]. This challenge magnifies at commuter campuses where students having difficulty coming together to work on the projects.…”

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Effective Course Redesign Strategies to Integrate Collaborative PBL in Senior Computer Engineering/Computer Science Courses

Dong

Guo

2014 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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This paper presents the accomplishments and comprehensive findings of the NSF sponsored project, entitled "Enhance Computer Network Curriculum using Remote Collaborative Projectbased Learning". The focus of the project is to explore Collaborative Project-based Learning (CPBL) as a pedagogical approach to address the learning issues of under-prepared minority students, and seek effective implementation strategy to extend the pedagogy beyond the classroom through a remote learning structure. During the three-year project course, a new pedagogical model named as CPBL-beyond-Classroom was developed and its effectiveness has been thoroughly evaluated in iterative classroom implementation. In this paper, we will analyze this pedagogical model to illustrate how it can address the learning needs of minority students on a commuter campus, describe our course redesign process, and introduce effective implementation strategies to address practical challenges in the implementation process. Concrete examples of course redesign with weekly in-class and after-class instructional activities are provided in the paper and the redesign principles can be applied to other engineering/CS courses. In addition, the paper includes longitudinal study results based on 3-year assessment data to highlight the pedagogical impact on various student learning outcomes. In-depth analysis of qualitative responses also allowed us to develop a better understanding on how different pedagogical components in the CPBL-beyond-Classroom model affected the student learning process. These findings are helpful to other educators who are interested in adopting CPBLbeyond-Classroom to redesign their courses based on the learning needs of their own students.

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Work in progress - behavioral aspects of student engineering design experiences

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

A Case Study: How Collaborative PBL Affects Learning of Minority Students in Engineering Courses at Senior Level

A Case Study: How Collaborative PBL Affects Learning of Minority Students in Engineering Courses at Senior Level

Improving Project-based Learning via Remote OPNET-based Lab Sequence in Undergraduate Computer Networking Curriculum

Effective Course Redesign Strategies to Integrate Collaborative PBL in Senior Computer Engineering/Computer Science Courses

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