Journal of Engineering Education Research (공학교육연구)

Korean Society for Engineering Education (한국공학교육학회)
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Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure Engineering Empathy

공학적 공감능력 검사도구 개발 및 타당화 연구

  • Choi, Sung-Youn (Innovation Center for Engineering Education, Dongguk University) ;
  • Ma, Eunjeong (Department of Creative IT Engineering, POSTECH)
  • 최성연 (동국대학교 공학교육혁신센터) ;
  • 마은정 (포항공과대학교 창의IT융합공학과)
  • Received : 2020.08.14
  • Accepted : 2020.08.31
  • Published : 2020.09.30
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Abstract

The purpose of this study is to develop and validate an Engineering Empathy Instrument. Engineering empathy is defined as the ability that encompasses the following three qualities, a skill to interpret social issues and phenomenon that may occur in the process of interactions between human beings and engineering systems, a practical orientation that enables one to take stakeholders' perspectives to carry out an engineering project, and a professional way of being that acknowledges empathic skills and associated practice orientations. Based on this notion, we develop a scale to measure engineering empathy and have surveyed 429 engineering students. Evidence for the validity and reliability of the scale is presented. In conclusion, we find that engineering empathy can be measured and conceptualized as three domains: a Learnable Skill (ELS), a Practical Orientation (EPO), and a Professional Way (EPW). We also find that sophomores show the highest level of engineering empathy as compared with other graders. While students accumulate technical knowledge, their understanding about engineering in social and interpretational contexts gets weakened. This implies that engineering education necessarily emphasizes the impacts of engineering solutions in interpersonal, societal, technologies, and environmental contexts.

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