3 credits
Fall 2025 Distance Learning Lecture Upper Division
This course is conceived as a bridge between beginning graduate students' knowledge of technical research and modes of inquiry appropriate to the new field of engineering education. It is designed as the entryway to required research method courses taken as part of the students' plan of study. By the end of this survey course, students will be able to critique research in terms of the quality of the authors' argument based on their chain of reasoning, and will recognize that the articulation of a research question, the significance of the question, the choice of methods in regards to the research goals, and the transparency of the explanation of the methodology are all the parts of the chain of reasoning. Permission of instructor required.
Learning Outcomes1Provides a pathway into the discipline that characterizes the diversity of approaches to engineering education research and research topics.
2Create opportunities to discuss the need for rigorous engineering education research.
3Develop critical understanding of relationships between research problem, method, and design.
4Foster community development and collaborative efforts among students and engineering education researchers.
5Help students identify conceptual hurdles and individual pathways into research activities.
6Support students' identity development as an engineering education researcher.
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