The Trouble with Troubleshooting: Investigating Undergraduate Engineering Students' Difficulties with Troubleshooting​ - Christopher Romeo

Year
2026
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Summary

This research examines why undergraduate engineering students struggle with troubleshooting technical problems. By observing electrical engineering students fixing broken circuits, he aims to identify where they get stuck, compare their approaches with expert strategies, and develop classroom exercises that build practical troubleshooting skills for labs, projects and real-world engineering work.