Quantifying Differences Between Professional Expert Engineers and Engineering Students Designing: Empirical Foundations for Improved Engineering Education
Author(s) -
Kurt Becker,
John S. Gero,
Morteza Pourmohamadi,
Sarah Abdellahi,
Lilian Maria de Souza Almeida,
Yuzhen Luo
Publication year - 2020
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Conference proceedings
DOI - 10.18260/1-2--30911
Subject(s) - engineering education , cognition , computer science , empirical research , ontology , protocol (science) , foundation (evidence) , knowledge management , engineering , psychology , engineering management , medicine , philosophy , alternative medicine , archaeology , epistemology , pathology , neuroscience , history
Kurt Becker is the current director for the Center for Engineering Education Research (CEER) which examines innovative and effective engineering education practices as well as classroom technologies that advance learning and teaching in engineering. He is also working on National Science Foundation (NSF) funded projects exploring engineering design thinking. His areas of research include engineering design thinking, adult learning cognition, engineering education professional development and technical training. He has extensive international experience working on technical training and engineering educaton projects funded by the Asian Development Bank, World Bank, and U.S. Department of Labor, USAID. Countries where he has worked include Armenia, Bangladesh, Bulgaria, China, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, and Thailand. In addition, he teaches undergraduate and graduate courses for the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State University.
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