Research in Engineering Education Symposium 2011 Madrid, Spain 4-7 October 2011 ISBN: 978-1-62748-184-7
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Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Página 5 de 957 Index of contents INDEX OF CONTENTS... 5 WELCOME MESSAGE... 11 RESEARCH IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION SYMPOSIUM 2011... 11 CONFERENCE STRUCTURE... 13 PLANNING COMMITTEE MEMBERS... 13 LOCAL ORGANIZING MEMBERS... 13 INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMITTE... 14 CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT... 14 CONFERENCE PLANNING... 15 TUESDAY, 4 TH OCTOBER... 15 WEDNESDAY, 5TH OCTOBER... 15 THURSDAY, 6 TH OCTOBER... 16 FRIDAY, 7 TH OCTOBER... 17 CONFERENCE SCHEDULE... 19 CONFERENCE SESSION... 21 SESSION 1: WEDNESDAY MORNING... 21 SESSION 2: WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... 21 SESSION 3: WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... 22 SESSION 4: THURSDAY MORNING... 22 SESSION 5: THURSDAY AFTERNOON... 23 SESSION 6: FRIDAY MORNING... 23 SESSION 7: FRIDAY MORNING... 24 TABLE OF SESSIONS... 25 SESSION 1 WEDNESDAY MORNING... 25 Turn A: Threshold issues Chair: Maura Borrego... 25 Turn B: Teaching and Learning 1 Chair: Jennifer Turns... 25 Turn C: Tools 1 Chair: Barbara M. Olds... 26 Turn D: Learning Strategies 1 Chair: Bill Williams... 26 SESSION 2 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... 27 Turn A: Engineering Education Research Chair:Llewellyn Mann... 27 Turn B: Project-Based Learning Chair: Milo Koretsky... 27 Turn C: Technology in Learning Chair: Wendy Newstetter... 28 Turn D: Teaching practice Chair: Anne Gardner... 29 SESSION 3 WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... 30 Turn A: Learning strategies 2 Chair: Cynthia J. Atman... 30 Turn B: Engagement Chair: Roger Hadgraft... 30 Turn C: Teaching and learning Chair: Duncan Fraser... 31 Turn D: Knowledge and leadership Chair: Luis Manuel Cerda... 32 SESSION 4 THURSDAY MORNING... 33
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Página 6 de 957 Turn A: Curricula 1 Chair: Amparo Camacho... 33 Turn B: Assessment 1 Chair: Edith Gummer... 33 Turn C: Transition 1 Chair: Robin Clark... 34 Turn D: Teaching and learning 3 Chair: Michael Prince... 34 SESSION 5 THURSDAY MORNING... 35 Turn A: Curricula 2 Chair: Dawn Williams... 35 Turn B: Classroom experiences Chair: Lyn Brodie... 35 Turn C: Ethics & Values Chair: Cynthia Finelli... 36 Turn D: Transition 2 Chair: Johannes Strobel... 37 SESSION 6 FRIDAY MORNING... 38 Turn A: Assessment 2 Chair: Erik de Graff... 38 Turn B: Tools 2 Chair: James Pellegrino... 38 Turn C: Teaching and learning 4 Chair: Mario Letelier... 39 Turn D: Diversity Chair: Lorraine Fleming... 40 SESSION 7: FRIDAY MORNING... 41 Turn A: Educational Research Chair: Maizam Alias... 41 Turn B: Teaching and learning 5 Chair: Gregory Light... 41 Turn C: Tools 3 Chair: Jonte Bernhard... 42 Turn D: Miscellaneous Chair: James Trevelyan... 42 PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONFERENCE... 43 1º SESSION WEDNESDAY MORNING... 43 Topic: Threshold Issues Chair: Maura Borrego... 43 Investigating and addressing student difficulties in introductory electrical engineering... 43 Analytical tools in engineering education research: The learning a complex concept model, threshold concepts and key concepts in understanding and designing for student learning.... 51 Methodology for automated generation of multiple choice questions in self-assessment... 61 Topic: Teaching and learning 1 Chair: Jennifer Turns... 70 A qualitive inquiry into first year engineering student success... 70 Sharing the past, sharing the future, and sharing oneself in portfolio studios... 78 Engineering Student s Conceptions of Model Uses in Design... 87 Topic: Tools 1 Chair: Barbara M. Olds... 95 Instrumental development: Engineering-specific Epistemological/Ontological beliefs... 95 Virtual Instruments in dimensional metrology... 106 An expert study of transfer in an Authentic Project... 119 Topic: Learning strategies 1 Chair: Bill Williams... 127 Engineering learning to Engineering Innovation... 127 A model for evaluation of generic competences in engineering: Application to the problem-solving competence at UPM... 135 A freshman project based computing engineering course: team work and innovation as a focus... 144 SESSION 2 - WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... 155 Topic: EER Chair: Llewellyn Mann... 155 Strategic pathways to engineering education research: a top-down case study... 155 Hidden barriers to academic staff engaging in Engineering Education Research... 168 Analysis of Trends in United States National Science Foundation Funding for Engineering Education: 1990-2010... 175 A possible resistive electrical circuits learning pathway for engineering students... 184 Topic: PBL Chair: Milo Koretsky... 190 Evaluating tutor training for online PBL teamwork courses in first year engineering... 190 Measuring the influence of Cooperative Learning and Project Based Learning on problem solving skill... 199
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Página 7 de 957 Reports from teaching practice: experiences and management of tensions encountered with PBL implementations in the early years of undergraduate engineering education... 208 Project based learning activities as a means of adapting conventional curricula to the demands of the 21 st century aeronautical engineer: The design and building of the EYEFLY 1.... 217 Topic: Technology in Learning Chair: Wendy Newstetter... 226 Materials Engineering Degree in the Technical University of Madrid (UPM): The challenges of a new technology... 226 A new teaching tool on the European space for higher education: Fusion of laboratory and research results 235 Computer Adaptive Testing and the Networked Model of Curriculum in an Engineering Education Learning System (MAPI-CAT): The Case of Fourier Analysis in Mexico... 244 Virtual 3D Support Contents Oriented to Interactive Self-Learning... 252 Topic: Teaching Practice Chair: Anne Gardner... 259 Want to Change Learning Culture: Provide the Opportunity.... 259 Are we accidentally misleading students about engineering practice?... 268 Teaching practices of engineering faculty: Perceptions and actual behavior... 279 Assessment of transferable competences in computing... 290 SESSION 3: WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON... 299 Topic: Learning strategies 2 Chair: Cynthia J. Atman... 299 A Variation Theory Approach to Develop Learning Progressions for Engineering Concepts... 299 First steps in the discovery of patterns in the academic results of telecommunication engineering students in the subjects Analysis of Circuits and Mathematics... 308 The Influence of Engineering Education on Optics Education... 317 Development of new teaching activities for learning Robot Mechanics... 323 Topic: Engagement Chair: Roger Hadgraft... 332 Investigating the characteristics of successful collaborative learning activities... 332 Task and networking balance as key to satisfaction with team performance... 340 Towards technology stewardship: tools for encouraging student engagement... 350 Topic: Teaching & Learning Chair: Duncan Fraser... 359 Design-based research as a methodology for investigating learning in the engineering education... 359 Investigating the nature of thing orientation... 368 Using Inquiry-Based Activities to Repair Student Misconceptions Related to Heat, Energy and Temperature 375 Using complexity theory to develop a new model of student retention... 384 Topic: Knowledge & Leadership Chair: Luis Manuel Cerda... 394 Building leadership capacity of engineering academics in a leadership vacuum constructed within a participatory group to engage a professional body... 394 Knowledge Management and Leadership in the Higher Education: A First Approach... 406 Teaching contextual knowledge in engineering education-theory of Engineering Science and the Core Curriculum at the Technical University of Denmark... 415 SESSION 4: THURSDAY MORNING... 425 Topic: Curricula 1 Chair: Amparo Camacho... 425 Assessment as a tool for improving the education of engineers: experiences of international accreditation of the Universidad del Norte.... 425 Quality assurance in engineering education in Russia... 433 Informing engineering education for sustainable development using ad deliberative dynamic model for curriculum renewal... 441 Topic: Assessment 1 Chair: Edith Gummer... 451 Tool for automatic production and management of written and web test exams... 451 Does continuous evaluation drive us to mediocrity?... 459 An improvement of academic results by a self-study methodology in Transportation Engineering subject... 466 Topic: Transition 1 Chair: Robin Clark... 474 Engineering in an Elementary Setting: An Analysis of Context Maps... 474 Conceptual Change in Precollege Engineering... 487
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Página 8 de 957 Forging Futures? Engineering in the Primary School Curriculum... 499 Topic: Teaching & Learning 3 Chair: Michael Prince... 507 New methodology on Applied Geology and Geology for Engineers education by using practical trip... 507 Competence Monitoring in Project Teams by using Web based portfolio management systems.... 516 Toward Lifelong Learning: Self-Regulation in Undergraduate Engineering Courses... 525 SESSION 5: THRUSDAY AFTERNOON... 535 Topic: Curricula 2 Chair: Dawn Williams... 535 Studying Interdisciplinarity in Engineering Degree Courses: Conceptual and Methodological Issues... 535 Facilitating intellectual and personal skills development in engineering programmes... 543 A systematic consultation process to define graduate outcomes for engineering disciplines... 552 The Development of Assessment Tools Using Phenomenography... 562 Topic: Classroom experiments Chair: Lyn Brodie... 571 Classroom experiments in the new degree of Materials Engineering at UPM... 571 An architecture for virtual and remote laboratories to support distance learning... 579 Improving the Learning Process in Statistical Decision-Making Laboratory... 588 Low cost 3D Gesture based interface use for engineering lecturing... 595 Topic: Ethics & Values Chair: Cynthia Finelli... 604 Assessing the ethical development of engineering undergraduates in the United States... 604 Engineering Ethics: An Exploration of the State of the Art... 612 Engineering as a Caring and Empathetic Discipline: Conceptualizations and Comparisons... 622 Topic: Transition 2- Chair: Johannes Strobel... 636 Development of learning environments to increase the understanding and interest in engineering and technology amongst Australian primary school students... 636 Starting young: Learning outcomes of a developmentally appropriate PreK engineering curriculum... 644 Measuring Pupils Perceptions of Engineers: Validation of the Draw-an-Engineer (DAET) Coding System with Interview Triangulation... 652 Engineering, Learners, and Contexts (ELC): The Development of Pedagogical Engineering Knowledge by Elementary Teachers through Perceived Learning Difficulties and Contextual Constraints... 661 SESSION 6: FRIDAY MORNING... 671 Topic: Assessment 2 Chair: Erik de Graff... 671 (Re )Building an Assessment Paradigm: Individual Student Learning in Team Based Subjects... 671 Considerations on the success rate in aeronautical engineering studies in Spain... 678 Assessing individual performance within group design and group problem-solving learning environments... 686 Understanding Feedback in an Authentic, Ill-Structured Project through Discourse Analysis: Interaction between Student and Instructor Objectives... 700 Topic: Tools 2 Chair: James Pellegrino... 710 Quality of experience of online learning tools... 710 Concept inventories as aids for instruction: a validity framework with examples of application... 719 Laboratory experiments: Case study of a virtual approach... 728 An interactive platform for IA Games... 736 Topic: Teaching and Learning Chair: Mario Letelier... 745 Learning speed evaluation of first year engineering students... 745 Negotiation Games: Acquiring Skills by Playing... 754 Shifting conceptions of engineering design: Longitudinal and cross-sectional studies of undergraduate engineering majors... 763 Microgenres: Critical markers that can facilitate teaching and assessing writing within and across schools and colleges of engineering... 772 Topic: Diversity Chair: Lorraine Fleming... 782 Observational research methods to explore intercultural competence in engineering... 782 Does social capital matter? Impacts of social capital on African American male achievement... 790 Understanding engineering self-efficacy of students involved with a professional minority engineering society... 798
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) Página 9 de 957 Defining Diversity: Impacts on Students' Engineering Identity... 806 SESSION 7: FRIDAY MORNING... 815 Topic: Educational Research Chair: Maizam Alias... 815 The bigger picture - capturing value creation for an engineering school as it initiates engineering education research... 815 An Examination of Learning Strategy, Interest, Intention and Academic Performance: Case Studies of Australia and Malaysia... 824 Conference, reviews and conservations about improving engineering education... 834 Topic: Teaching & Learning 5 Chair: Gregory Light... 841 The answer to an exercise, the answer to a project: The teaching of creativity and project decision taking in the field of structures... 841 Dealing With Ambiguity in Open-Ended Engineering Problems... 850 Using case-based learning in undergraduate engineering courses... 859 Topic: Tools 3 Chair: Jonte Bernhard... 865 Disassemble/Analyse/Assemble (DAA) activities: Learning Engineering through Artefact Interactions... 865 The transferability of the PSVT:R and the MCT for Measuring and Predicting Student 3D CAD Modelling Abilities... 874 Novel Hybrid Training Tool Based on Experimental Projects in Electronic Engineering Education.... 883 Topic: Miscellaneous Chair: James Trevelyan... 890 Balancing the Budget: Aspects of Economics in Engineering Education... 890 Bringing Engineering Education to Life An Empirical Approach... 900 Threshold capabilities: an emerging methodology to locate curricula thresholds... 907 PAPERS WHICH ARE NOT PRESENTED IN REES 2011... 916 Adapting Engineering Education for a Mindmap-Based Digital Textbook: To reduce the skill gap between what the industry demands and what academia delivers... 916 Student behavior trends in an engineering program... 925 Design of Competences-based Educational Programs for engineering education understanding curriculum as a process... 935 Educational Experience of Adaptation of a degree in Electronic Engineering from the ECTS standpoint within the European Higher Education Area Framework... 944 LIST OF REVIEWERS... 952 ABSTRACT REVIEWERS... 952 PAPER REVIEWERS... 955