Retrospect and Prospect of International Engineering Education Research in the Past Decade

Object: To understand the progress, hotspots and trends of international engineering education research and development, and provide reference for further research through visual analysis of papers published in 3 engineering education journals of SSCI. Methods: We use the Web of Science database as the search source, select "Journal of Engineering Education", "Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice", "International Journal of Engineering Education" for publications, and obtain article type documents published in the above journals from 2010 to 2019. We Use the information visualization analysis software called Citespace to perform statistical analysis, and understand the author groups, publishing institutions, research hotspots, time evolution and frontier fields. Results: A total of 2,323 papers are included in this study, and the number of papers published each year is between 201 and 253. "International Journal of Engineering Education" is the journal with the most papers, Purdue University is the institution with the most papers, and Borrego, M. is the author who published the most papers. As of September 27, 2020, the average number of paper citations is 6.4, the H-index index is 47, the overall number of citations reached 8941, and a total of 15 papers have been cited more than 80 times; a total of 27 keywords frequency reached 50 times, and the keywords formed 7 clusters. Conclusion: In the past 10 years, international engineering education research has developed well. American universities are more prominent in this field, forming a number of high-level research institutions and core author groups to lead relevant research development; the research hotspots included educational innovation and communication, curriculum design, teaching reform, student motivation survey, Interdisciplinary development, conceptual enlightenment, quality evaluation, etc. are the focus of the industry; assessment tools, gender, sustainability, ethics, computer engineering education, educational technology, virtual reality.