Conference Session

Installing & Assessing Technology Literacy Courses

Collection

2006 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University; John Krupczak, Hope College

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

lead “device dissection” labs of one type or another. Easilythe most populous of these three categories is the cadre of design instructors, as“capstone design” is virtually universal among engineering schools, whereas first yearinstruction is highly variable in coverage and level of effort, and even device dissectionlabs are not present in the majority of engineering departments. The materials needed for instruction in technological literacy courses (TLCs) aresubstantial and varied. Materials available to address this need include an increasingnumber of books by engineering and science authors such as Billington 5, Bloomfield 6,Florman 7 , Lienhard 8 , and Petroski 9. Radio programs featuring engineers are written