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Effect of Sustainable Energy Design Project on Achievement for Engineering Freshmen at Virginia Tech in the United States  

Kim, Jin-Soo (Dept. of Technology Education, Korea Nat'l Univ. of Education)
Mullin, Jennifer (Technology Education Program, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State Univ.)
Lohani, Vinod (Dept. of Engineering Education, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State Univ.)
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Journal of Engineering Education Research / v.10, no.1, 2007 , pp. 60-76 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, the effect of a sustainable energy design project on academic achievement for engineering freshmen at Virginia Tech in fall semester 2006 in the United States was examined by experimental method. The department of engineering education at Virginia Tech was opened in 2004. In this experiment the population was approximately 1200 freshmen, and 5 classes were sampled. Subject name is engineering exploration, a theme of the instruction is sustainable energy design, the project was performed throughout a 6 weeks period with one by 50 minutes lecture conducted by faculty and one 90 minutes workshop conducted by GTAs (Graduate Teaching Assistants) every week. The statistical results using SPSS (ver. 15.0) are as follows: A paired-samples t test analysis was run on the pre- and posttest to determine academic achievement, the results indicated a significant increase in 4 classes of mixed gender at .05 significance level, but there was no significance at 1 group of female class. A paired-samples t test analysis was run on the pre- and posttest to get an attitude score, the results showed, the posttest scores decreased for 5 groups even though it was not statistically significant. Finally, in responses to an open-ended question about students' perceptions of their improvement in skills, the 3 most frequently identified skills were teamwork, design process, knowledge.
Keywords
Virginia Tech; Department of Engineering Education; Engineering Exploration; Project; Sustainable Energy; Academic Achievement; Attitude; t test;
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