Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Non-Engineers

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

David Ollis, North Carolina State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

, professionals (corporate management, etc), family, friends and society ?Week four: In nine-ten pages, respond to the following questions: 1. What technical challenge did s/he address? 2. Why did the investigator(s) undertake the task(s) of interest ? 3. What achievement or resolution of the technical challenge was resulted? 4. What social challenges arose during the individual or team effort, and how were the social challenges resolved ? ( within a corporation ? family ? society at large ? other ? ) 5. What recognition, if any, did the investigator receive

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Non-Engineers

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jan DeWaters, Clarkson University; Susan Powers, Clarkson University; Mary Graham, Clarkson University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

National Academy ofEngineering (NAE) and the National Research Council (NRC) defined technological literacybroadly as encompassing three dimensions: knowledge; ways of thinking and acting (criticallyanalyzing, assessing); and capabilities.12Since as early as the 1970’s, environmental science educators and education professionals havealso emphasized the application of skills and knowledge in attempting to set criteria forenvironmental literacy. Environmental literacy lacks a clear definition, but the TbilisiDeclaration of 197715 was modified in 199016 to state: “Environmental literacy is a basicfunctional education for all people, which provides them with the elementary knowledge, skills,and motives to cope with environmental needs and contribute

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Shayna Stanton, Student; Michael Bailey, Brigham Young University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

: An opportunity for design faculty? Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education, Chicago.4. National Academy of Engineering, and National Research Council, Committee on Technological Literacy. (2002). Technically speaking: Why all Americans need to know more about technology. Pearson, Greg, and Young, A. Thomas. (Eds.).5. Mikic, B., and Voss, S. (2006). Engineering for everyone: Charging students with the task of designing creative solutions to the problem of technology literacy. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Page 12.1610.8 Education, Chicago.6. Christopher

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Non-Engineers

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Blake, Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

, Humans, and Society – Toward a Sustainable World, Academic Press, San Diego, CA, 2001. ISBN 0-12-221090-5.19. Hjorth, Linda S., Barbara A. Eichler, Ahmed S. Khan, and John A. Morello, Technology and Society – A Bridge to the 21st Century, 2nd Ed., Prentice-Hall, 2003. ISBN 0-13-092475-X. Note: the 3rd edition is now on the market.20. Johnston, Stephen F., J. Paul Gostelow, and W. Joseph King, Engineering and Society, Prentice Hall, 2000. ISBN 0-201-36141-8.21. Adams, J.L., Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings: the World of an Engineer, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991. ISBN 0-674-30689-9.22. Billington, David P., The Innovators: the Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern, John Wiley & Sons, NY, 1996

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Camille George, University of St. Thomas; Elise Amel, University of Saint Thomas; Christopher Greene, University of Saint Thomas

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

Foundationunder grant # ESI-0341897. The authors would like to thank James Pechacek, Nicole Jackson,Peter Rhode, Karl Mueller and Vern Cottles for their invaluable help in making the activitiescome alive.Bibliography1 National Academy of Engineering (NAE). 2002. Technically Speaking: Why all Americans need to know moreabout technology. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.2 Pisupati, S. V., Mathews, J. P., and Scaroni, A. W., Energy Conservation Education for Non-Engineering Studentsand the Effectiveness of Active Learning Components. 2003, Proceedings of the American Society of EngineeringEducation Annual Conference, Session 2533.3 Krohn, J. L., and Apple, S. C., Energy and the Environment: An Energy Education Course for High SchoolTeachers. 2003

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Non-Engineers

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Barbara Oakley, Oakland University; Lorenzo Smith, Oakland University; Yin-ping (Daniel) Chang, Oakland University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

. Co.; 1982.2. W. B. Stouffer, Jeffrey S. Russell, Michael G. Oliva, "Making the strange familiar: Creativity and the future of engineering education." Paper presented at: American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference, 2004; Salt Lake City, UT.3. Carl Selinger, "The creative engineer: What can you do to spark new ideas?" IEEE Spectrum, 2004, http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/aug04/3842. Accessed Dec 12, 2006.4. The Future of Engineering Research, The Royal Academy of Engineering, 2003, http://www.raeng.org.uk/news/publications/list/reports/Future_of_Engineering.pdf. Accessed December 15, 2006.5. Robert Birnbaum, Birnbaum v. Henry Petroski (interview), The Morning News, 2004, http

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Non-Engineers

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lawrence Whitman, Wichita State University; James Steck, Wichita State University; David Koert, Wichita State University; Larry Paarmann, Wichita State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

., 2000, A multidisciplinary team project for electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science majors.8) Brockman, J., Batill, S., Renaud, J., Kantor, J., Kirkner, D., Kogge, P., and Stevenson, R., 1996, "Development of a multidisciplinary engineering design laboratory at the University of Notre Dame." Proc. of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference.9) Otto, K., Bezdek, J., Wood, K., Jensen, D., and Murphy, M., 1998, "Building better mousetrap builders: Courses to incrementally and systematically teach design," Proc. of the American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference.10) Garcia, M.A., and Patterson-McNeill, H., 2002, "Learn how to develop software using the toy Lego

Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

-functions in design and creating a sense of practical empowermentin novice or even tentative engineers.Bibliography 1. National Science Foundation, “Shaping The Future: New Expectations for Undergraduate Education in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technology”, NSF 96-139, October 1996. 2. Pearson, G., and A.T.Young, (editors) Technically Speaking: Why all Americans Need to Know More About Technology. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press, (2002). 3. National Academy of Engineering, Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century, National Academy Press, (2005). 4. Nocito-Gobel J., S. Daniels, M. Collura, B. Aliane, “Project-Based Introduction to Engineering – A