Creativity in Electrical Engineering Degree Programs: Where Is the Content?

Valentine, Andrew; Belski, Iouri; Hamilton, Margaret; Adams, Scott

doi:10.1109/te.2019.2912834

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“…While this absent participant voice was uncommon in this set of manuscripts, there were others that included minimal quotes from participants and presented the findings in an abstracted way (Carstensen & Bernhard, 2019;Fourati-Jamoussi et al, 2019;Sadikin et al, 2019;ten Caten et al, 2019;Valentine et al, 2019). In these articles, short quotes were often included in a table in the results or findings section.…”

Section: Absent or Abstracted Voicesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While this analysis was limited, as we only saw the accepted and published versions of manuscripts, there were some indicators that authors were answering reviewer's illegitimate questions (or they were heeding off expected, yet illegitimate questions; Guba & Lincoln, 2005). Many of the articles that we analyzed discussed the inherent non-generalizability of their work, either by stating it confidently (e.g., their study was not intended to be generalizable; Pawley, 2019) or apologetically (e.g., stating that their study was not generalizable even though the authors appeared to want it to be; Valentine et al, 2019). Other authors focused their discussion on providing contextual findings so that other educators could assess the validity of the results for their specific contexts (Minichiello et al, 2019).…”

Section: Illegitimate Questionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Uncovering Epistemologies and Values of Our Qualitative Engineering Education Research Community: Listening for Voices

Kellam

Jennings

2021

Studies in Engineering Education

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Background:In engineering education research, we have made great strides in both our advanced qualitative research methodologies and the acceptance of qualitative research within the broader field. This shift in our community likely marks a shift in our epistemologies and a shift in our values, but we are still feeling a pull towards positivist epistemologies from funding agencies, journals, editorial boards, reviewers, and readers, which may be limiting our potential to conduct more critical and postmodern research and learn more about communities who are marginalized in engineering. Purpose: The purpose of this research project is to develop an understanding of qualitative researchers' epistemological perspectives and values. The research question guiding this study is: Through an analysis of qualitative engineering education manuscripts published in 2019, what voices of researchers and participants appear in our work and what do they reveal about our EER community's epistemologies and values? Method: The databases Engineering Village and Google Scholar were employed to identify journal articles that are qualitative, engineering education-focused, and published in 2019. This search resulted in 27 journal articles from eleven journals that served as the data for this project. The analysis was derived from discourse analysis and The Listening Guide and involved multiple readings. During these readings, we considered how the epistemologies present in qualitative engineering education research were reflected through a discursive examination of voices that emerged in the papers. Conclusions: Researcher and participant voices emerged in the analysis, including some that are more aligned with positivist epistemologies (e.g., apologetic, generalizable, and abstracted voices) and others that are aligned with more postmodern epistemologies (e.g., alongside, vulnerable, and storied voices). These voices provide some insight into epistemological and paradigmatic tensions within our qualitative engineering education research community.

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Section: Absent or Abstracted Voicesmentioning

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Uncovering Epistemologies and Values of Our Qualitative Engineering Education Research Community: Listening for Voices

Kellam

Jennings

2021

Studies in Engineering Education

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“…The application of sustainability to the university engineering curriculum brings about a noticeable improvement in knowledge and attitudes and modest changes in enabling new behaviors (Qu, Huang, & Zhou, 2020). Educators in the engineering field need to take more effective measures to make certain that creativity is a clear result of learning in the engineering curriculum because innovation has been proven to be a crucial competency for engineering professionals (Valentine, Belski, Hamilton, & Adams, 2019). Innovations in higher education, such as peer-led team learning (Frey, Fink, Cahill, McDaniel, & Solomon, 2018), the supplemental instruction model (Alden, 2017), and technology-enhanced learning (Urban, 2017), for first-year and second-year college students can improve their learning experience and enhance their academic achievements.…”

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confidence: 99%

Students’ innovativeness and higher education for sustainable development: A bibliometric approach

Pu²

2023

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Innovativeness plays a decisive role in the progress of society, the sustainable development of nations, and the success of individuals in the era of information technology and knowledge economy, especially because the world is now confronted with major challenges such as climate change, environmental degradation, social inequality and resource exhaustion that have no ready solutions. As cradles for talent, higher education institutions attach great importance to promoting the innovative capabilities of their students. This study aims to introduce the existing studies on students’ innovativeness in institutions of higher learning for sustainable development. This study applies a bibliometric analysis by conducting collaboration, co-citation, co-reference, and co-occurrence analysis on university students’ innovativeness toward sustainable development. A total of 1,531 academic publications have been collected from the Web of Science Core Collection database from 2011 to 2021 and further analyzed. The major researchers and publications, productive countries or regions, collaborative institutions, research hotspots, and trends related to the innovativeness of college students are identified in this study. By adopting Co-occurrence (COOC) and VOSviewer to analyze and visualize the data, this research reveals that college students’ innovation capability continues to be an emerging research issue. Training, entrepreneurship education, and entrepreneurial intention are identified as the gaps for further studies. The results of this study suggest that academia in higher education institutions and government agencies are strongly encouraged to enhance the innovativeness of college students to tackle the unsustainable issues haunting society today.

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“…Bernasiuk, Bacelar and Streck (2000) investigate and prove the importance of Extracurricular Activities in the qualification and development of competences of Medical Physics students, at PUCRS, Brazil. Valentine et al (2019) indicate that competency and skills related to creativity are depreciated in engineering courses, although they are important in engineers' professional lives.…”

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confidence: 99%

Engineers' education in digital era

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Miranda

Filho

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution has already taken around the world. Decision taking at industries is more and more dependent on new technologies and processes, which demand updating and adjustment of the engineering education. Through a systematized literature revision, this article aims to search, select and prioritize bibliographic sources which reflect relevant initiatives that may work as a reference for engineering bachelor´s degree courses. 50 most relevant articles were selected and analyzed from 4,333 articles published in the Scopus database. The results show the 10 main authors, the 9 main journals and the 10 main institutions among the 50 most relevant articles, as references in the analyzed sample. Regarding aspects for the improvement of engineers education, one can highlight PBL (Project-Based Learning), Competency-Based Education and focus on holistic education. This research may encourage reflection, awareness and improvement by the ones interested in the study of engineers' education, by integrating market demand, learners' expectations and academic excellence, in order to contribute to the growth of scientific and practical knowledge and of society technological development.

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Creativity in Electrical Engineering Degree Programs: Where Is the Content?

Cited by 24 publications

References 25 publications

Uncovering Epistemologies and Values of Our Qualitative Engineering Education Research Community: Listening for Voices

Uncovering Epistemologies and Values of Our Qualitative Engineering Education Research Community: Listening for Voices

Students’ innovativeness and higher education for sustainable development: A bibliometric approach

Engineers' education in digital era

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