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Understanding the Similarities and Differences Between Academia and the Engineering Workplace through Barriers to Adoption, Epistemic Beliefs, and Problem-Solving Behavior

Creator:

Gestson, Sean Lyle

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Engineering education research has led to a greater understanding of the gap in preparedness of students for the engineering industry. Multiple studies comparing the workplace and academic contexts and the participants in those contexts (i.e., students, faculty, and engineering practitioners) have emphasized similarities and differences between the two contexts by...

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differences in problem-solving decisions (D. Jonassen, Strobel, and Lee 2006; Urlacher et al. 2015). This
Conceptual Representations within the Social and Material Contexts of an Engineering Workplace and Academic Environments

Creator:

Barner, Matthew S.

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Situated cognition theory emphasizes the role that social and material contexts have on learning and knowledge application. Several studies of engineering workplace environments have noted differences between the social and material contexts of the workplace and those of undergraduate engineering education. No existing research has studied the social and material...

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resources, be they people and/or tools (Johri, 2011; Jonassen, Strobel, & Lee, 2006; McCracken