A Writing in the Disciplines Approach to Technical Report Writing in Chemical Engineering Laboratory Courses

Hubka, Catherine Anne; Y., Eva; Chen, Yan; Svihla, Vanessa; Gomez, Jamie; Datye, Abhaya K.; Mallette, Tracy Lee

doi:10.18260/1-2--32019

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“…52 Embedding the process of writing in a laboratory setting provided a structured opportunity for students to review their own and others' work critically, thus being guided towards improving their technical writing. 53 Jocuns and Stevens proposed a 'trajectory of identification' in the ability of engineering students to 'talk http://www.td-sa.net Open Access engineering', 49 arguing that spoken technical communication was a significant part of the development of an engineering student's identity. Presentation skills, particularly in laboratory demonstrations, were identified as a key oral communication genre in engineering, entailing the development of a 'socioscientific argumentation [that] includes the application of moral and ethical values and personal identity'.…”

Section: Communicating Engineering Identities: Discursive Practices In the Laboratorymentioning

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The role of undergraduate laboratories in the formation of engineering identities: A critical review of the literature

Winberg

2021

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa

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Background: There was growing recognition worldwide by professional engineering bodies, engineering faculties and researchers on the need to pay attention to engineering students' emerging identities and how they were formed across the trajectory of undergraduate engineering programmes. An increasing number of research studies focused on engineering identity, including systematic reviews of the research literature.Aim: Engineering laboratories were key learning spaces in undergraduate engineering programmes. In the laboratory, students learned to integrate theory and practice, engaged in problem-solving and applied experimental methods. The purpose of this critical review of the literature was to interrogate the impact that learning in engineering laboratories had on emerging professional identities across engineering disciplines and fields.Method: This review built on and extended previous systematic reviews on engineering identity by studying pedagogies in the engineering laboratory through the lens of identity formation. Search terms were consistently applied to eight databases, which yielded 57 empirical studies, after the application of relevance and quality appraisal criteria. Two reviewers independently applied a socio-materialist theoretical framework of identify formation to each study and coded each of the studies into categories aligned with the theoretical framework. Results:The findings of the critical review revealed the temporal, spatial, material, performative and discursive dimensions in engineering identity formation and showed that students' emerging identities could be affirmed and supported by appropriate laboratory pedagogies. Conclusion:The critical review of the literature concluded that curricular and pedagogical interventions that were better aligned with the dimensions of identity formation were more likely to enhance students' identification with engineering.

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Section: Communicating Engineering Identities: Discursive Practices In the Laboratorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The role of undergraduate laboratories in the formation of engineering identities: A critical review of the literature

Winberg

2021

The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa

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“…We also learned the importance of not making it easy for students to just "accept all" changes, instead focusing on modeling just a few changes and asking students to make the edits themselves. We found that faculty had ideas of various ways to implement these ideas, from using peer-reviews to component submission, yet all of these variants supported student growth, both in terms of conceptual learning and as technical writers, provided the students had to make revisions [52,53].…”

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Insights and Outcomes from a Revolution in a Chemical Engineering Department

Svihla,

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Datye

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2022 ASEE Annual Conference &Amp; Exposition Proceedings

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Mexico (UNM) with appointments in learning sciences and engineering. Her research, funded by an NSF CAREER award, focuses on how people learn as they frame problems and how these activities relate to identity, agency and creativity. Madalyn Wilson-fetrow (Graduate Student Researcher) (University of New Mexico)I am a graduate student at the University of New Mexico in learning sciences with a background in materials engineering and in chemistry and an interest in STEM education and informal learning and agency

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“…To produce engineering graduates with the communication skills necessary to be successful in the modern workforce, engineering curriculums need to improve how communication skills are taught. The movement towards more effective teaching of communication skills to engineers has resulted in opportunity for collaboration with communication experts [3,4] and the launching of Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) or Writing in the Disciplines (WID) programs [5][6][7].…”

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