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Papers

(The median citation count of Journal of Engineering Education is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

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Erratum to “The effects of language learning and math mindsets on academic success in an engineering program”	38
Understanding the relationship between idea contributions and idea enactments in student design teams: A social network analysis approach	36
Special issue on systematic reviews and meta‐analyses in engineering education: Highlights and future research directions	36
Engineering play with blocks as an informal learning context for executive function and planning	30
Application of concept maps as an assessment tool in engineering education: Systematic literature review	30
The effects of language learning and math mindsets on academic success in an engineering program	28
Gender, prior knowledge, and the impact of a flipped linear algebra course for engineers over multiple years	27
Motivational dynamics in basic needs profiles: Toward a person‐centered motivation approach in engineering education	25
Operationalizing and monitoring student support in undergraduate engineering education	24
Sense of belonging in engineering and identity centrality among undergraduate students at Hispanic‐Serving Institutions	24
Generative artificial intelligence and engineering education	23
Not returning to the “before times”	21
Reasons and root causes: Conventional characterizations of doctoral engineering attrition obscure underlying structural issues	21
How can I help move my manuscript smoothly through the review process?	21
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Children's engineering identities‐in‐practice: An exploration of child–adult interactions in an out‐of‐school context	20
Building bridges to engineering interest: Connections between student perceptions of instructor actions and interest in engineering classes	19
A systematic literature review of reciprocity in engineering service‐learning/community engagement	19
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Investigating engineering undergraduates' agentic and communal career values in writing responses	17
Exploring experiences that foster recognition in engineering across race and gender	17
Supporting inclusivity in STEM makerspaces through critical theory: A systematic review	17
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The impact of emergency remote learning on students in engineering and computer science in the United States: An analysis of four universities	16

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Examining engineering students' perceptions of learner agency enactment in problem‐ and project‐based learning using Q methodology	16
The Undergraduate Engineering Mental Health Help‐Seeking Instrument (UE‐MH‐HSI): Development and validity evidence	15
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Considering leadership in engineering education: A call to action for research and practice	15
Belonging in engineering: Exploring the predictive relevance of social interaction and individual factors on undergraduate students' belonging in engineering	14
Another form of undermatching? A mixed‐methods examination of first‐year engineering students' calculus placement	14
Caring for the future: Empathy in engineering education to empower learning	14
Engineering climate for marginalized groups: Connections to peer relations and engineering identity	14
First‐generation college students' funds of knowledge support the development of an engineering role identity	14
A scoping review of engineering education systematic reviews	13
The assessment cycle: Insights from a systematic literature review on broadening participation in engineering and computer science	13
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A funds of knowledge approach to developing engineering students' design problem framing skills	13
A hazard identification digital simulation game developed based on the extended authentic learning framework	13
Self‐explanation activities in statics: A knowledge‐building activity to promote conceptual change	13
Reflection types and students' viewing of feedback in a first‐year engineering course using standards‐based grading	13
Engineering students' interests in nonprofit and public policy careers: Applying a data‐driven approach to identifying contributing factors	12
Mastery, models, messengers, and mixed emotions: Examining the development of engineering self‐efficacy by gender	12
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Engineering student perceptions of social justice in a feedback control systems course	12
Connection and alienation during the COVID‐19 pandemic: The narratives of four engineering students	11
Engineers, figuring it out: Collaborative learning in cultural worlds	11
Reviewing: A skill we can continuously develop	11
Assessing the impact of online collaborative problem solving on a calculus class for first‐year engineering students: A communities of practice lens	11
How Latiné engineering students resist White male engineering culture: A multi‐institution analysis of academic engagement	11
Persistence at what cost? How graduate engineering students consider the costs of persistence within attrition considerations	11
Learning to design for social justice in community‐engaged engineering	10
Systematic review of spatial abilities and virtual reality: The role of interaction	10
Why Australian female high school students do not choose construction as a career: A qualitative investigation into value beliefs about the construction industry	9
Potential engineers: A systematic literature review exploring Black children's access to and experiences with STEM	9
Learning to prioritize the public good: Does training in classes, workplaces, and professional societies shape engineers' understanding of their public welfare responsibilities?	9
How do ethics and diversity, equity, and inclusion relate in engineering? A systematic review	9
Moving beyond the “international” label: A call for the inclusion of the (in)visible international engineering students	8
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The social construction of professional shame for undergraduate engineering students	8
Lacking time: A case study of student and faculty perceptions of academic workload in the COVID‐19 pandemic	8
Eurocentric epistemologies in engineering: Manifestations in first‐year student design teams and consequences for student learning	8
Engineering culture under stress: A comparative case study of undergraduate mechanical engineering student experiences	8
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Impact ofCOVID‐19 on sense of belonging: Experiences of engineering students, faculty, and staff at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)	8
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Inequity in graduate engineering identity: Disciplinary differences and opportunity structures	7
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Exploring epistemic aspects of engineering for K–12 science and engineering education	7
Investigating culturally contextualized making with the Navajo Nation	7
Are MOOCs a new way of learning in engineering education in light of the literature? A systematic review and bibliometric analysis	6
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The fallacy of “there are no candidates”: Institutional pathways of Black/African American and Hispanic/Latino doctorate earners	6

Leveraging a comprehensive systems thinking framework to analyze engineer complex problem‐solving approaches	6
An exploration of engineering instructors' pedagogical adaptations early in the COVID‐19 pandemic	6
How did the landscape of student belonging shift during COVID‐19?	6
Sketching assessment in engineering education: A systematic literature review	6
“They are here to support me”: Community cultural wealth assets and precollege experiences of undergraduate Black men in engineering	6
Engineering integration in elementary science classrooms: Effects of disciplinary language scaffolds on English learners' content learning and engineering identity	6
Civil engineering students as avoidant actors: Using culturally relevant problem‐solving to increase critical action attitudes	6
Examining interests and goals as predictors of gender differences in engineers' pursuit of managerial roles	6
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The career outlook of engineering PhDs: Influence of postdoctoral research positions on early career salaries and the attainment of tenure‐track faculty positions	5
Sources contributing to engineering students' academic well‐being: An exploration using the Q methodology	5
The climate is changing. Engineering education needs to change as well	5
First mathematics course in college and graduating in engineering: Dispelling the myth that beginning in higher‐level mathematics courses is always a good thing	5
“Sick and tired of being sick and tired”	5
Surviving, thriving, departing, and the hidden competencies of engineering graduate school	5
Exploring fundamental engineering course instructors' test usage beliefs and behaviors: A multicase study	5
Recognizing the funds of knowledge of first‐generation college students in engineering: An instrument development	5
Inner engineering: Evaluating the utility of mindfulness training to cultivate intrapersonal and interpersonal competencies among first‐year engineering students	5
Investigating students' motivational goals and self‐efficacy and task beliefs in relationship to course attendance and prior knowledge in an undergraduate statics course	4
Person‐centered analyses in quantitative studies about broadening participation for Black engineering and computer science students	4
Making whiteness visible: The promise of critical race theory in engineering education	4
Photovoice: Visualizing the engineering identity experiences of sophomore students	4
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(Mis)alignments between postdoctoral and supervisors' perceptions of mentorship competencies in engineering and computer science	4
The New Normal	4
A need for engagement opportunities and personal connections: Understanding the social community outcomes of engineering undergraduates in a mentoring program	4
Undergraduate students' espoused beliefs about different approaches to engineering design decisions	4
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The effectiveness of physical and virtual manipulatives on learning and motivation in structural engineering	4
Engineering ableism: The exclusion and devaluation of engineering students and professionals with physical disabilities and chronic and mental illness	3
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“The lab isn't life”: Black engineering graduate students reprioritize values at the intersection of two pandemics	3
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Adapting the Utrecht‐Management of Identity Commitments Scale to assess engineering identity formation	3
Using eye gaze to reveal cognitive processes and strategies of engineering students when solving spatial rotation and mental cutting tasks	3
My purple pen	3
Fifty‐three years of the Journal of Engineering Education: A bibliometric overview	3
Characterizing engineering outreach educators' talk moves: An exploratory framework	3
Exploring scenario‐based assessment of students' global engineering competency: Building evidence of validity of a China‐based situational judgment test	3
Exploring applications of complexity theory in engineering education research: A systematic literature review	3
Using random forest analysis to identify student demographic and high school‐level factors that predict college engineering major choice	3
Beliefs in engineering education research: A systematic scoping review for studying beliefs beyond the most popular constructs	3
On the importance of (white) humility: Epistemological decentering as a positional orientation toward research	3
How do undergraduate engineering students conceptualize product design? An analysis of two third‐year design courses	2
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Participation pathways for women into university makerspaces	2
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Exploring how personal and program characteristics inform the experiences of engineering students abroad	2
Arrebatos and institutionalized barriers encountered by low‐income Latino/a/x engineering students at Hispanic‐Serving Institutions (HSIs) and emerging HSIs	2
Barriers instructors experience in adopting active learning: Instrument development	2
The role of learner trust in generative artificially intelligent learning environments	2
Using higher education and other social sciences research to inform engineering education research: A cross‐national perspective	2
Special report: The research topics addressed and research methods applied in the Journal of Engineering Education (1993–2022)	2
What engineering employers want: An analysis of technical and professional skills in engineering job advertisements	2
Erratum to “A Multimodal Exploration of Engineering Students' Emotions and Electrodermal Activity in Design Activities”	2
Investigating the tension between persistence and well‐being in engineering doctoral programs	2
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