Special session - research findings on engineering student learning and engineering teaching: Interactively exploring the implications for engineering education

The goal of this Special Session is to engage participants in consideration and discussion of a selected subset of research findings, with the intention of contextualizing the presented findings into the larger body of scholarship on engineering education as well as to consider how they may be used to inform program and course planning and classroom practice. The research presented will include emerging findings from an extensive set of data collected by the the Center for the Advancement of Engineering Education (CAEE) through two of its constituent studies, the Academic Pathways Study (APS) of engineering undergraduate development and the Studies of Engineering Educator Decisions (SEED). While the specific findings to be presented will be drawn from the most recent research work, themes are likely to include gender differences among engineering students, development of engineering skills and identity over time, post-graduation plans of students, and factors affecting educator decisionmaking. This is the latest in a series of workshops in which CAEE research findings were presented and discussed; previous workshops have elicited lively discussions, and notes from the discussions can be found online (http://aps-seed.pbwiki.com/).