Australasian Journal of Engineering Education最新文献

{"title":"The pitfalls of work placement learning: perceptions of mechanical engineering students from a South African university","authors":"T. Ngonda, C. Shaw, Bruce Kloot","doi":"10.1080/22054952.2022.2086339","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22054952.2022.2086339","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article reports on a qualitative multi-case study exploring the challenges mechanical engineering students experience during work placement. The study collected data from 34 purposively selected mechanical engineering students. It found that constraining learning environments, ineffective industry mentors, low quality work affordances and negative student characteristics can compromise students’ work placement learning outcomes. It suggests that the coupling of ineffective mentors and constraining learning environments tends to be associated with low quality work affordances. Industry mentors were considered ineffective if they could not perform the dual role of work supervisors and teachers. It further suggests that some student attributes can also compromise work placement learning outcomes. It found that students who are not proactive or assertive often experience low quality work affordances. To remedy these shortcomings, universities should provide pre-placement training for students and industry mentors in the form of a seminar for industry mentors and simulated work placement for students.","PeriodicalId":38191,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"129 1","pages":"38 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79605561","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"In memorium: Lyndal Parker 1957 - 2022","authors":"K. Willey","doi":"10.1080/22054952.2022.2084817","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22054952.2022.2084817","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38191,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"75 1","pages":"64 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74382247","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Design-based learning to facilitate secondary students’ understanding of pulleys","authors":"Luecha Ladachart, Jiraporn Chaimongkol, Wilawan Phothong","doi":"10.1080/22054952.2022.2065722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22054952.2022.2065722","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Design-based learning has been internationally recognised as a new pedagogical approach to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education at primary and secondary levels. While previous studies have examined its effectiveness in facilitating students’ scientific understanding of various topics, it is evident that design-based learning may be less effective in some topics. Design-based learning on the topic of pulleys, which students often have difficulty setting up by themselves, has not yet been implemented. Thus, this study aims to examine the influence of design-based learning on 25 eighth-grade students’ understanding of pulleys. Before and after the design-based learning, each student individually completed a conceptual test comprised of 12 multiple-choice questions from the literature. Their mean scores on the pre-test and the post-test were compared using a paired-samples t-test. The results reveal a significant improvement in students’ understanding of pulleys with a large effect size. Recommendations for effective design-based learning are proposed for application in other topics.","PeriodicalId":38191,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"32 1","pages":"26 - 37"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86116384","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A multidisciplinary approach to authentic learning experiences for nature-based solutions design: broadening the monkey cheeks","authors":"K. Irvine, Fa Likitswat, Asan Suwanarit, T. Koottatep","doi":"10.1080/22054952.2022.2083789","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22054952.2022.2083789","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Students in a Landscape Architecture studio at Thammasat University and an Environmental Engineering class at Asian Institute of Technology joined to develop and assess Nature-based Solution designs for a pond/wetland system in peri-urban Bangkok. The Landscape Architecture class first developed their design visions and subsequently their designs were introduced to the Engineering students through on-line presentations and collaborative on-site investigations. The Engineering students used combinations of water quality sampling, static calculations, and application of a conceptual, dynamic urban hydrology model to assess design performance. The Engineering students effectively incorporated some aspects of the architectural designs into their assessments, particularly those related to constructed wetlands for water quality improvement. Application of the dynamic model for water quantity assessments and provision of project cost estimates proved more challenging. Course evaluations indicated that students in both classes gained a better appreciation of the multidisciplinary process necessary for successful water resource planning, but also would prefer even greater interaction between the disciplines. Planned pedagogical improvements, including introduction of Steinitz’ Framework for Theory, are discussed.","PeriodicalId":38191,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"59 1","pages":"47 - 63"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84714244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Learning to design for social justice in community‐engaged engineering","authors":"Brandon Reynante","doi":"10.1002/jee.20444","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20444","url":null,"abstract":"Community‐engaged learning initiatives in engineering often struggle to achieve equitable outcomes for community partners because students in such programs often possess a design‐for‐charity mindset, which is characterized by an uncritical desire to help and the design of solutions that address symptoms of inequity without meaningful community involvement. The paradigm of design‐for‐justice seeks more equitable outcomes by illuminating positions of power, leveraging community knowledge, facilitating community participation, and altering the structural causes of inequity.","PeriodicalId":38191,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"61 9","pages":"338 - 356"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72562844","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Statement of Removal","authors":"S. Caldera, C. Desha, Les Dawes","doi":"10.1080/22054952.2021.2001128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/22054952.2021.2001128","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":38191,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"356 4","pages":"i - i"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72441366","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Why Australian female high school students do not choose construction as a career: A qualitative investigation into value beliefs about the construction industry","authors":"P. Carnemolla, Natalie R Galea","doi":"10.1002/jee.20428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20428","url":null,"abstract":"The construction industry remains male dominated, despite the efforts of business and educational institutions to attract women into construction careers. Previous research has examined why female university students study construction management or engineering. To complement this knowledge, there is an opportunity to understand why so many Australian female high school students do not choose to pursue construction‐related careers.","PeriodicalId":38191,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"15 1","pages":"819 - 839"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82008568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Inequity in graduate engineering identity: Disciplinary differences and opportunity structures","authors":"M. Bahnson, H. Perkins, M. Tsugawa, D. Satterfield, Mackenzie Parker, C. Cass, Adam Kirn","doi":"10.1002/jee.20427","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20427","url":null,"abstract":"The retention of traditionally underserved students remains a pressing problem across graduate engineering programs. Disciplinary differences in graduate engineering identity provide a lens to investigate students' experiences and can pinpoint potential opportunity structures that support or hinder progress based on social and personal identities.","PeriodicalId":38191,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"23 1","pages":"949 - 976"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84729700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Making whiteness visible: The promise of critical race theory in engineering education","authors":"J. Holly, Stephanie Masta","doi":"10.1002/jee.20432","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20432","url":null,"abstract":"In the summer of 2020, the United States erupted in a series of protests designed to confront this nation's problem with race. As conversations about racial justice took hold in the public sphere, attention was drawn to critical race theory (CRT) and what role it might have in explaining why the United States remains rooted in racism. However, on September 4, 2020, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) director Russell Vought sent a letter mischaracterizing CRT that subsequently incited a crusade of disinformation and misguided rage (Cineas, 2020). The ensuing fallout has led to an educational crisis as educators grow fearful of teaching the United States' history comprehensively (Griesbach, 2021; Herman, 2021). Rather than critically evaluate how the systems (e.g., educational, judicial, political) within the United States reinforce White supremacist ideology, the focus shifted toward the very theories used to understand this phenomenon. What had the potential to be a racial reckoning instead became an attack on CRT. Across the United States, politicians, school boards, colleges, and universities attempted to ban and eliminate CRT (or topics associated with it) from discussion. While critics of CRT framed their opposition as an attempt to decrease racism by not giving it any attention, the pushback against this theory actually reflects a hard truth: that the historical accuracy CRT demands is an existential threat to White supremacy. Trying to censor theories of race is an example of the very thing CRT highlights—that systems are designed to reinforce whiteness—and legislating the erasure of CRT is one form of this White supremacy. We want to make clear that those in strong opposition to CRT are not the primary audience for this editorial. This editorial is for those who want to do better in calling out the role of whiteness in their research that employs a CRT framework. We start with contextualizing the relevance of CRT, then provide a brief overview of it as a theorizing space (as opposed to a theoretical framework), discuss it within engineering education research (EER), and conclude with questions scholars engaging with this theory should consider as they move forward. In this Year of Impact on Racial Equity, the EER community would do well to scrutinize the recent, and ongoing, campaign against CRT taking hold in various educational spaces (American Society for Engineering Education [ASEE], n.d.). The ASEE has endorsed this yearlong effort “to help leverage and extend the societal momentum toward greater awareness and action to dismantle white supremacy and racism” at a time when White supremacy is flexing its political and social muscle (ASEE, n.d.). This type of attention is particularly important as mention of CRT grows within EER. While some scholars have mentioned it as a useful theory in understanding the experiences of racially excluded people in EER (e.g., DeCuir-Gunby et al., 2009; Ong et al., 2020; Trytten et al., 2013), others h","PeriodicalId":38191,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82240884","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Potential engineers: A systematic literature review exploring Black children's access to and experiences with STEM","authors":"J. London, Walter C. Lee, Chaneé D. Hawkins Ash","doi":"10.1002/jee.20426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jee.20426","url":null,"abstract":"As engineering remains central to the US economy, it is imperative that the innovators of this field reflect the world in which we live. Despite decades of concerted effort to broaden participation in engineering, representation continues to lack.","PeriodicalId":38191,"journal":{"name":"Australasian Journal of Engineering Education","volume":"2 1","pages":"1003 - 1026"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84517948","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}