Sustaining Learning in Engineering Capstone Design using Sociomaterial Approaches

Mahmud, Mohd Nazri; Aziz, Wan Mohd Yusof Rahiman Wan Abdul; Teh, Jiashen; Isa, Nor Ashidi Mat

doi:10.1109/weef.2017.8467106

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“…Identity formation is generally accepted as a central part of learning; identity emerges from the interrelationship between individual agency and the social organisation (or culture) in which individual actions are performed. 20 However, little is known about the ways in which engineering students construct professional identities in tandem with their learning, how they come to take on engineering values and how engineering identities emerge across the trajectory of undergraduate study. Whilst it is understood that identity is fundamental to membership of a professional community, 21 most research studies with a focus on engineering identity have not traced the trajectory of becoming an engineer.…”

Section: Why Identity?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…11 As engineering students advanced in their studies, they valued laboratories as dedicated spaces in which to work on design projects. 20 Recommended pedagogies included drawing on undergraduate students' fascination with materiality to familiarise students with the engineering tools of their disciplines and building on this interest to engage students more deeply with engineering tools and devices. Sociomaterial relations in engineering laboratories were found to be complex and evolving.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The challenge was to select appropriate forms of mentoring students towards understanding and using appropriate laboratory equipment at different levels of study. 20 http://www.td-sa.net Open Access…”

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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: Why Identity?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Specialised Engineering Laboratories Contained Whatmentioning

confidence: 99%