Difficult Concepts Targeted Study

• Interactive Session: Concept-Based Engineering Education: Designing Instruction to Facilitate Student Understanding of Difficult Concepts in Science and Engineering. Presented at the Frontiers in Education Conference, Session S1A. October, 2004. Savannah, GA.
• Slides from Interactive Session
• Handouts from the Interactive Session (thermal science Delphi survey results, circuits Delphi survey results, engineering mechanics Delphi survey results)
• Results from the discussion at the Interactive Session

• Practice to Research: Using Professional Expertise to Inform Research about Engineering Students' Conceptual Understanding. Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Educational Research Association, April 2005, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

• Special Session: Cognitive Legos: Helping Your Students Construct Scientifically Accurate Mental Models. Presented at the Frontiers in Education Conference, Session S2A, October, 2005, Indianapolis, IN.

• The Development of a Professional Knowledge Base: The Persistence of Substance-based Schemas in Engineering Students Presented at the Annual Conference of the American Education Research Association, April 2006, San Francisco.

• Identifying and Investigating Difficult Concepts in Engineering Mechanics and Electric Circuits. Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the American Society for Engineering Education, June, 2006, Chicago.

Link to Developing an Outcomes Assessment Instrument to Identify Engineering Student Misconceptions in Thermal and Transport Sciences