Work in progress - Assessing engineering service students' characteristics

Adam R. Carberry

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contribution

2 Scopus citations

Abstract

Engineering service opportunities are becoming more the norm than exceptions as today's engineering curricula evolve. Research is needed to explain why so many engineering students desire service opportunities as part of their engineering education. The goal of the following work in progress is to characterize the students who are currently participating in some form of engineering learning-through-service in order to identify underlying reasons for being drawn to service. Using an array of surveying instruments, a multi-institutional assessment of student perceptions of service as a learning source, engineering epistemological beliefs, personality traits, and self-concepts - self-efficacy, motivation, outcome expectancy, and anxiety-toward engineering design is currently underway. To date what has been learned is that most service students 1) perceive service as heavily impacting their learning of professional and technical skills, 2) have slightly sophisticated engineering epistemological beliefs, 3) are typically outgoing, agreeable, and open-minded, 4) have high self-efficacy, motivation, and expectancy for success toward engineering design, and 5) have relatively low anxiety toward engineering design.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication40th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference
Subtitle of host publicationCelebrating Forty Years of Innovation, FIE 2010 - Conference Program
PagesT2D1-T2D3
DOIs
StatePublished - Dec 1 2010
Externally publishedYes
Event40th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference: Celebrating Forty Years of Innovation, FIE 2010 - Arlington, VA, United States
Duration: Oct 27 2010Oct 30 2010

Publication series

NameProceedings - Frontiers in Education Conference, FIE
ISSN (Print)1539-4565

Other

Other40th Annual Frontiers in Education Conference: Celebrating Forty Years of Innovation, FIE 2010
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityArlington, VA
Period10/27/1010/30/10

Keywords

  • Engineering design
  • Engineering service
  • Epistemological beliefs
  • Learning outcomes
  • Self-concepts

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Software
  • Education
  • Computer Science Applications

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