"...conceptualization and theorization may be complemented by technique, but the technique cannot be substituted for this intellectual labor." In 2006, a group of leading engineering education researchers produced a research agenda for the emerging field of engineering education research. The Research Agenda for the New Discipline of Engineering Education delineated five research areas around which it was believed the field should focus its efforts: engineering epistemologies, engineering learning mechanisms, engineering learning systems, engineering diversity and inclusiveness, and engineering assessment. Engineering epistemologies was defined as "research on what constitutes engineering thinking and knowledge within social contexts now and into the future."
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