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The impact of an introductory biomedical engineering course on students' perceptions of the engineering profession

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dc.creatorCruz A.M.spa
dc.creatorRincon A.R.spa
dc.creatorDueñas W.R.R.spa
dc.creatorLuna N.F.spa
dc.creatorTorres D.A.Q.spa
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-26T00:11:58Z
dc.date.available2020-05-26T00:11:58Z
dc.date.created2016spa
dc.description.abstractAfter their first year roughly 50% of engineering students do not continue in that major. One cause could be that students have little idea as to what the profession of engineering is about. Freshman introductory courses provide a first approach to the engineering profession. Therefore, understanding the role of introductory engineering courses to increasing student knowledge of the profession is a relevant issue. The purpose of the study is to describe how student perceptions of the engineering profession overall change as a result of their educational experience in an introductory biomedical engineering course. This is a pre- post-test with no control group study design. One class (n = 41) on a first-year biomedical engineering course participated in a hybrid Project-based-learning (PBL)-lecture learning strategy. A survey composed of a demographic and 5-point Likert ('1' is strongly disagree and '5' is strongly agree) sections measured students' perceptions of the engineering profession and was administered (paper-based) to all the students enrolled on this course. The students' perceptions of the engineering profession were pooled into 3 main groups of skills, i.e. Technical skills, Professional skills, and Project management skills. Wilcoxon signed-rank test statistics were conducted to analyze the research question. Our analysis showed statistically significant results (pre-survey mean and SD: 4.01, 0.07; and postsurvey mean and SD: 4.21, 0.05, p less than 0.003), indicating the students' overall perceptions of the engineering profession had significantly improved by the end of the course. The results indicated that the students' overall perceptions of the engineering profession had significantly improved by the end of the introductory course. © 2016 TEMPUS Publications.eng
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dc.identifier.issn0949149X
dc.identifier.urihttps://repository.urosario.edu.co/handle/10336/24347
dc.language.isoengspa
dc.publisherTempus Publicationsspa
dc.relation.citationEndPage149
dc.relation.citationIssueNo. 1
dc.relation.citationStartPage136
dc.relation.citationTitleInternational Journal of Engineering Education
dc.relation.citationVolumeVol. 32
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Engineering Education, ISSN:0949149X, Vol.32, No.1 (2016); pp. 136-149spa
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dc.source.instnameinstname:Universidad del Rosariospa
dc.source.reponamereponame:Repositorio Institucional EdocURspa
dc.subject.keywordBiomedical engineeringspa
dc.subject.keywordBiophysicsspa
dc.subject.keywordEducationspa
dc.subject.keywordEngineering educationspa
dc.subject.keywordManagement sciencespa
dc.subject.keywordProfessional aspectsspa
dc.subject.keywordProject managementspa
dc.subject.keywordStatistical testsspa
dc.subject.keywordSurveysspa
dc.subject.keywordTeachingspa
dc.subject.keywordTechnical presentationsspa
dc.subject.keywordClassroom assessmentspa
dc.subject.keywordEducational experiencesspa
dc.subject.keywordEngineering professionspa
dc.subject.keywordIntroductory engineering coursespa
dc.subject.keywordProject based learningspa
dc.subject.keywordProject management skillsspa
dc.subject.keywordStudent retentionspa
dc.subject.keywordWilcoxon signed rank testspa
dc.subject.keywordStudentsspa
dc.subject.keywordClassroom assessmentspa
dc.subject.keywordEngineering pedagogyspa
dc.subject.keywordProject-based-learningspa
dc.subject.keywordStudent retentionspa
dc.titleThe impact of an introductory biomedical engineering course on students' perceptions of the engineering professionspa
dc.typeconferenceObjecteng
dc.type.hasVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
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