Díaz, B. A., & Lynch, C. F., & Han, K., & Delgado, C. (2023, June), Improving Graduate Engineering Education through Communities of Practice Approach: Analysis of Implementation in Computer Science, Robotics, and Construction Engineering Courses  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland. 10.18260/1-2--43581

\bibitem{asee_peer_43581}
  Díaz, B. A., \& Lynch, C. F., \& Han, K., \& Delgado, C. (2023, June), \emph{Improving Graduate Engineering Education through Communities of Practice Approach: Analysis of Implementation in Computer Science, Robotics, and Construction Engineering Courses}
  Paper presented at 2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland.
  10.18260/1-2--43581

Brayan Alexander Díaz, Collin F. Lynch, Kevin Han, and Cesar Delgado.  "Improving Graduate Engineering Education through Communities of Practice Approach: Analysis of Implementation in Computer Science, Robotics, and Construction Engineering Courses".  2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2023.  https://peer.asee.org/43581 Internet.  28 May, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_43581}
  Brayan Alexander Díaz, Collin F. Lynch, Kevin Han, and Cesar Delgado.
  "Improving Graduate Engineering Education through Communities of Practice Approach: Analysis of Implementation in Computer Science, Robotics, and Construction Engineering Courses".
  \emph{2023 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Baltimore , Maryland, 2023, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2023.
  https://peer.asee.org/43581 Internet.  28 May, 2024

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AB  - This work-in-progress paper reports the early results of implementing Communities of Practice (CoP) as a theoretical framework for designing, evaluating, and redesigning of three highly interactive graduate engineering courses. This NSF-funded research project (IGE program) aims to bridge the gap between university and professional engineering work, establish collaborative partnerships among student and professional communities, and improve multiple-team collaboration in a complex setting.  These courses offer us the opportunity to study how students with different backgrounds, knowledge, skills, and programs work in highly collaborative environments, which emulate the CoP of the engineering profession. This work uses class observations, interviews with former and current students as well as the professionals they interact with, surveys, and class materials to analyze and improve these three courses. Using these multiple data resources, we present how CoPs form, how CoPs in different disciplines learn to interact and collaborate, what conditions foster equitable participation by all members of a CoP, and what are some best practices, heuristics, and guidelines for effective academic CoPs. Additionally, we advance CoP theory and methods, by describing existing CoP concepts such as Legitimate Peripheral Participation (LPP) in novel contexts, describing disconnection between communities, and developing interview protocols and social network analysis methods to interpret and evaluate CoP experiences among students and professionals. This paper highlights minority student experience on some of the barriers in their participation in engineering communities and identifies which tools and approaches can be used for effective evaluation of CoP experiences in a classroom environment. The results of this work can be adopted  by instructors of other engineering courses
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