Background Students frequently hold a number of misconceptions related to temperature,
heat and energy. There is not currently a concept inventory with sufficiently high internal …

Interviews were conducted with students from a sophomore‐level mechanics of materials
class, a sophomore/junior‐level structures class, a senior‐level steel design class and a …

Background Concepts are defined generally as fundamental principles or global
understandings specific to a field of expertise. Theories of situated cognition suggest that …

In response to demands from industry and the profession for more graduates, first-year
engineering numbers have grown considerably over the last decade, matched by an …

Background Conceptual change is a process in which an individual's understanding and the
basis of this understanding change over time. Vosniadou's framework theory explains …

Eight inquiry-based activities, described here in sufficient detail for faculty to adopt in their
own courses, were designed to teach students fundamental concepts in heat transfer. The …

Mechanics is a key foundation topic for many engineering disciplines, the study of which
usually constitutes a significant proportion of first and second year engineering …

Abstract The Statistics Concept Inventory (SCI) is one of several concept inventories
currently being developed in a variety of engineering disciplines following the success of the …

Although many students demonstrate considerable aptitude in manipulating equations and
variables within academic environments, research consistently shows that they lack …

Student-centered learning is presented as an alternative to the traditional lecture-based
approach commonly used in transportation engineering education. Student-centered …