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A comparison of Swedish and Irish secondary students' conceptions of engineers and engineering using the draw-an-engineer test
(ASEE, 2019-06)
Women are significantly underrepresented in engineering and engineering related disciplines. One area where this is clearly illustrated is in the percentage of females enrolled in higher education engineering courses. The ...
MIND strengths: the unique cognitive architecture of engineering and technology students.
(IMC, 2016)
Engineering and technology education is uniquely positioned within formal education systems to facilitate the development of a broad range of cognitive competencies such as designerly thinking, spatial reasoning and ...
Theorizing the role of engineering for society: technological activity in context?
(ASEE, 2019-06)
This paper establishes a theoretical position from which to analyse and reason about the
difficulties associated with closing the gap between the provision of engineering education in
universities and the needs of society. ...