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|  | |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |  |\n\nSPRING 2016  \nExtending Engineering Practice Research with Shared Qualitative Data  \nJAMES TREVELYAN  \nThe University of Western Australia  \nSchool of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering  \nABSTRACT  \nResearch on engineering practice is scarce and sharing of qualitative research data can reduce the effort required for an aspiring researcher to obtain enough data from engineering workplaces to draw generalizable conclusions, both qualitative and quantitative. This paper describes how a large shareable qualitative data set on engineering practices was accumulated from 350 interviews and 12 field studies performed by the principal investigator and by students conducting PhD and capstone research projects. Ethical research practice required that sharing and reuse of qualitative data be considered from the start. The researchers’ interests and methods were aligned to maintain sufficient consistency to support subsequent analysis and re-analysis of data. Analysis helped to answer questions of fundamental significance for engineering educators: what do engineers do, and why are the performances of engineering enterprises so different in South Asia compared with similar enterprisesin Australia? Analysis also demonstrated the overwhelming significance of technical collaboration in engineering practice. Conceiving engineering practice as a series of technical collaboration performances requires a more elaborate understanding of social interactions than is currently the case in engineering schools. Another finding is that global engineering competency could be better described in terms of “working with people who collaborate differently”. Research helped to demonstrate that formal treatment of technical collaboration in an engineering curriculum could help avoid student misconceptions about engineering practice that hinder their subsequent engineering performances.  \nKey words: engineering education, shared qualitative data, engineering practice, technical collaboration performance  \nINTRODUCTION  \nResearch on engineering practice is scarce, even within the engineering education community, and aspiring researchers face significant challenges in gathering data, both qualitative and quantitative,  \nSPRING 2016 1  \nADVANCES IN ENGINEERING EDUCATION  \nExtending Engineering Practice Research with Shared Qualitative Data  \nfrom engineering workplaces. This paper demonstrates how an alignment of students’ and researchers’ interests and sharing of qualitative data gathered in PhD and capstone research projects helped to accumulate a large sharable qualitative data set. Students also supplemented analysis capacity in a research project that has yielded several engineering practice research findings of fundamental significance, especially for engineering educators.  \nThe principal research aim was to understand the reasons for large apparent performance differences between engineering enterprises in Australia and South Asia. First-hand observations suggested that differences in engineers’ workplace practices might provide explanations for these differences. Extensive literature research at that time (2002-2005) revealed a scarcity of detailed qualitative research on engineers’ workplace practices that could have been used to provide reference data for comparisons (Barley 2005) . The research aims, therefore, had to be widened to investigate engineering work practices in both Australia as well as South Asian countries. Final year engineering students joined this research, motivated by curiosity to discover more about the realities of their chosen career paths. PhD students with prior engineering work experience also saw opportunities in this research to resolve puzzling observations from their workplace experiences. Through this fortunate alignment of interests, it was possible for the research students to contribute shar","cbCaiqc8Vy0s4P1P","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiqc8Vy0s4P1P","pdf",415986,31,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Research aim and context\n## Engineering education and the role of practice","[{\"question\":\"Why does the paper emphasize sharing qualitative data in engineering practice research?\",\"answer\":\"Sharing qualitative data lowers the effort needed for aspiring researchers to gather sufficient information from engineering workplaces to support generalizable conclusions.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the shareable qualitative dataset in the study assembled?\",\"answer\":\"The dataset was accumulated from 350 interviews and 12 field studies conducted by the principal investigator and students in PhD and capstone projects.\"},{\"question\":\"What key insight does the analysis provide about engineering practice?\",\"answer\":\"Technical collaboration plays an overwhelming role in engineering practice, and engineering competency can be framed in terms of collaborating with people in different ways.\"}]","Extending Engineering Practice Research with Shared Qualitative Data | PDF",1792065723,78]