Thinking Like an Engineer: Using Engineering Habits of Mind and Signature Pedagogies to Redesign Engineering Education
Thinking Like an Engineer: Using Engineering Habits of Mind and Signature Pedagogies to Redesign Engineering Education
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DOI：
10.3991/ijep.v6i2.5366
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发表时间：
2016-01-01
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通讯作者：
Hanson, J.
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作者：
Lucas, B.;Hanson, J.
为了吸引更多的年轻人进入工程领域，并确保他们有能力迎接未来的专业挑战，我们需要了解成功的工程师在面对挑战性问题时是如何思考和行动的。使用混合方法的方法，这项研究调查的思维习惯，工程师最经常使用的核心活动时，“使”的东西或“使事情更好地工作”。我们确定了六个最独特的学习倾向，或工程师经常使用的工程“思维习惯”[EHoM]。然后，我们的研究探讨了如何重新设计工程教学，以使用“签名方法”培养EHoM，并通过此，产生更深入的了解成为和成为工程师所涉及的内容。本文报道了与工程师进行的研究，以定义EHoM，并确定了一些显着的特点，他们可能会被应用到工程教育的签名体系。最后，它概述了未来的研究，以进一步验证和定义的思维习惯和签名的工程学。
In order to attract more young people into engineering and ensure that they are well equipped to meet future professional challenges we need to know how successful engineers think and act when faced with challenging problems. Using a mixed methods approach this study investigated the habits of mind that engineers use most frequently when engaged in the core activity of "making" things or "making things work better". We identified the six most distinctive learning dispositions, or engineering "habits of mind" [EHoM] that engineers frequently deploy. Our research then explored ways in which the teaching of engineering might be re-designed to cultivate EHoM using "signature pedagogies" and through this, generate deeper understanding of what is involved in becoming and being an engineer. This paper reports on the research undertaken with engineers to define the EHoM and identifies some of the distinctive features of signature pedagogies as they might be applied to engineering education. It concludes by outlining future research to further validate and define habits of mind and signature pedagogies for engineering.