Protocol Analysis in Engineering Design Education Research: Observations, Limitations, and Opportunities

Opportunities and Limitations of Computer Algebra in Education

Computer algebra systems are frequently used for research. In addition, some instructors have based entire advanced courses around these systems. One benefit is that they allow students to become familiar with the methods of calculus by individual experimentation. However, instructors have generally seen computer algebra systems as unsuitable for introductory algebra since the software is capab...

Design and design centers in engineering education

The digital turn in interpretive research: opportunities and limitations

Studying Internet-based social and organizational phenomena presents a challenge to the Information Systems field as well as the wider social sciences and humanity community. In the social science and humanity fields, there is currently a debate regarding the possibilities of using digital methods and how far they can reveal issues about culture and society. This paper aims to provide an IS eng...

Limitations of Experiments in Education Research

Research based on randomized experiments (along with high-quality quasi-experiments) has gained traction in education circles in recent years. There is little doubt this has been driven in large part by the shift in research funding strategy by the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences under Grover Whitehurst’s lead, described in more detail in his article in this issue. Dia...

Engineering design education and rehabilitation engineering.

My academic career of more than 50 years has been committed to involving undergraduate and graduate students in the engineering design process [1]. A variety of experiences—childhood model making, vocational high school education, draftsman jobs, and military assignments during World War II—have convinced me that design is best learned by the necessity of reaching wellestablished and defined de...