Promoting the ethical formation of engineering students through the cultivation of their
discipline-specific knowledge, sensitivity, imagination, and reasoning skills has become a …

Background Engineers are increasingly being asked to empathically engage with a broad
range of stakeholders. Current efforts to educate empathic engineers, however, are …

This study investigated the effectiveness of a blended learning approach—involving the
thesis, analysis, and synthesis key (TASK) procedural strategy; online Edmodo discussions; …

This book provides a comprehensive, up-to-date look at problem solving research and
practice over the last fifteen years. The first chapter describes differences in types of …

Background Across academic disciplines, researchers have found that argumentation‐
based pedagogies increase learners' achievement and engagement. Engineering …

Our contribution is part of a broader study conducted in cooperation with the national
accreditation body Engineers Ireland that examined the conceptualisation and education of …

Case studies have been used by engineering ethics educators for several decades,
following a path paved by legal educators in the late nineteenth century. Unfortunately, few …

One of the fundamental practices identified in Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) is
argumentation, which has been researched in P-12 science education for the previous two …

Background Ethical issues pervade engineering practice. Ethical problems are ill‐structured
with alternative solutions, perspectives, and rationales for justifying solutions to ethical …

As virtual simulation technology can display three‐dimensional materials as well as their
dynamic cutting process and the learners' motivation is enhanced in the situated learning …