| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
|---|
| 1 | Advancing Engineering Education in P‐12 Classrooms | Journal of Engineering Education | 2008 | 543 |
| 2 | Five Major Shifts in 100 Years of Engineering Education | Proceedings of the IEEE | 2012 | 257 |
| 3 | A Meta-Analysis on Gender Differences in Mental Rotation Ability Measured by the Purdue Spatial Visualization Tests: Visualization of Rotations (PSVT:R) | Educational Psychology Review | 2013 | 256 |
| 4 | Impact of CAD tools on creative problem solving in engineering design | CAD Computer Aided Design | 2009 | 169 |
| 5 | nanoHUB.org: Advancing Education and Research in Nanotechnology | Computing in Science and Engineering | 2008 | 163 |
| 6 | A solar thermal cooling and heating system for a building: Experimental and model based performance analysis and design | Solar Energy | 2010 | 120 |
| 7 | Justifying Aggregation With Consensus-Based Constructs | Organizational Research Methods | 2015 | 115 |
| 8 | NGSS and the landscape of engineering in K-12 state science standards | Journal of Research in Science Teaching | 2015 | 105 |
| 9 | Being a professional: Three lenses into design thinking, acting, and being | Design Studies | 2011 | 104 |
| 10 | STEM Integration in Middle School Life Science: Student Learning and Attitudes | Journal of Science Education and Technology | 2016 | 83 |
| 11 | Engineering curriculum in the preschool classroom: the teacher's experience | European Early Childhood Education Research Journal | 2015 | 81 |
| 12 | The role of authenticity in design-based learning environments: The case of engineering education | Computers and Education | 2013 | 74 |
| 13 | ‘Different people have different priorities’: work–family balance, gender, and the discourse of choice | Studies in Higher Education | 2014 | 74 |
| 14 | The Impact of Design-Based STEM Integration Curricula on Student Achievement in Engineering, Science, and Mathematics | Journal of Science Education and Technology | 2017 | 72 |
| 15 | Shifting the “Default”: The Case for Making Diversity the Expected Condition for Engineering Education and Making Whiteness and Maleness Visible | Journal of Engineering Education | 2017 | 72 |
| 16 | An exploratory study of informed engineering design behaviors associated with scientific explanations | International Journal of STEM Education | 2015 | 66 |
| 17 | Bridging the design‐science gap with tools: Science learning and design behaviors in a simulated environment for engineering design | Journal of Research in Science Teaching | 2017 | 65 |
| 18 | Person and Thing Orientations | Social Psychological and Personality Science | 2013 | 56 |
| 19 | Practicing engineering while building with blocks: identifying engineering thinking | European Early Childhood Education Research Journal | 2016 | 53 |
| 20 | Does an Eye Tracker Tell the Truth about Visualizations?: Findings while Investigating Visualizations for Decision Making | IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics | 2012 | 47 |
| 21 | Effect of Time on Perceived Gains from an Undergraduate Research Program | CBE Life Sciences Education | 2014 | 47 |
| 22 | If you build it, will they come? Student preferences for Makerspace environments in higher education | International Journal of Technology and Design Education | 2018 | 46 |
| 23 | Good news for environmental self-regulation? Finding the right link | Journal of Environmental Economics and Management | 2019 | 45 |
| 24 | The Underrepresentation of Women in Computing Fields: A Synthesis of Literature Using a Life Course Perspective | IEEE Transactions on Education | 2017 | 43 |
| 25 | The qualitative evidence behind the factors impacting online learning experiences as informed by the community of inquiry framework: A thematic synthesis | Computers and Education | 2021 | 41 |
| 26 | Orientations and motivations: Are you a “people person,” a “thing person,” or both? | Motivation and Emotion | 2012 | 40 |
| 27 | Professional Development Through Engineering Academies: An Examination of Elementary Teachers' Recognition and Understanding of Engineering | Journal of Engineering Education | 2011 | 39 |
| 28 | ABET Criterion 3.f: How Much Curriculum Content is Enough? | Science and Engineering Ethics | 2012 | 36 |
| 29 | Design thinking among first‐year and senior engineering students: A cross‐sectional, national study measuring perceived ability | Journal of Engineering Education | 2020 | 31 |
| 30 | Computational thinking embedded in engineering design: capturing computational thinking of children in an informal engineering design activity | International Journal of Technology and Design Education | 2021 | 30 |
| 31 | How to Assign Individualized Scores on a Group Project: An Empirical Evaluation | Applied Measurement in Education | 2009 | 29 |
| 32 | An Integrated Knowledge Framework to Characterize and Scaffold Size and Scale Cognition (FS2C) | International Journal of Science Education | 2012 | 29 |
| 33 | Classroom makerspaces: Identifying the opportunities and challenges | | 2014 | 29 |
| 34 | Characterizing the work of coaching during design reviews | Design Studies | 2016 | 29 |
| 35 | Starburst: a new graphical interface to support purposeful attention to others’ posts in online discussions | Educational Technology Research and Development | 2016 | 28 |
| 36 | Identity in Engineering Adulthood: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Early-Career Engineers in the United States as They Transition to the Workplace | Emerging Adulthood | 2019 | 28 |
| 37 | Design Experiences, Engineering Identity, and Belongingness in Early Career Electrical and Computer Engineering Students | IEEE Transactions on Education | 2019 | 27 |
| 38 | Resilient engineering identity development critical to prolonged engagement of Black women in engineering | Journal of Engineering Education | 2021 | 27 |
| 39 | REPOSITIONING RACE, GENDER, AND ROLE IDENTITY FORMATION FOR BLACK WOMEN IN ENGINEERING | Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering | 2017 | 26 |
| 40 | EXPLORING LATINA FIRST-GENERATION COLLEGE STUDENTS’ MULTIPLE IDENTITIES, SELF-EFFICACY, AND INSTITUTIONAL INTEGRATION TO INFORM ACHIEVEMENT IN ENGINEERING | Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering | 2018 | 26 |
| 41 | Methodology discourses as boundary work in the construction of engineering education | Social Studies of Science | 2014 | 25 |
| 42 | Diversifying the faculty across gender lines: Do trustees and administrators matter? | Economics of Education Review | 2012 | 24 |
| 43 | The correlation between undergraduate student diversity and the representation of women of color faculty in engineering | Journal of Engineering Education | 2020 | 24 |
| 44 | Distance Education: New Technologies and New Directions | Proceedings of the IEEE | 2008 | 23 |
| 45 | Learning strategies and multimedia techniques for scaffolding size and scale cognition | Computers and Education | 2014 | 23 |
| 46 | Students' use of STEM content in design justifications during engineering design‐based STEM integration | School Science and Mathematics | 2019 | 23 |
| 47 | Analyzing Large Collections of Open-Ended Feedback From MOOC Learners Using LDA Topic Modeling and Qualitative Analysis | IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies | 2021 | 23 |
| 48 | Incorporating student-centered approaches into catchment hydrology teaching: a review and synthesis | Hydrology and Earth System Sciences | 2012 | 22 |
| 49 | Engineering education research inEuropean Journal of Engineering EducationandJournal of Engineering Education: citation and reference discipline analysis | European Journal of Engineering Education | 2014 | 22 |
| 50 | Instructional strategies to promote computational thinking for young learners | Journal of Digital Learning in Teacher Education | 2020 | 22 |
