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

Society.20 Unlike the first two books, this was written for senior engineeringstudents in a capstone course. While including some of the same topics, such as energy andsustainability, the focus of this text is on engineering practice. This is beneficial for atechnological literacy course. The text is useful both for new engineers confronting issues in thepolitical and business arenas and for non-engineers needing to understand engineering.The author wanted material in the readings that would serve as case studies in engineering andtechnology, and used other books to supplement standard textbooks. Some books written forfirst year engineering students, such as Adams, Flying Buttresses, Entropy, and O-Rings: theWorld of an Engineer,21 and Billington