Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William R. Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Jason K Durfee P.E. P.E., Eastern Washington University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

of the electrical laboratories, they offered aconvenient storage location for these old technologies. Faculty members frequently open thedisplay cases and bring them into the laboratory to demonstrate how they were used perhapsmany decades ago. Then their modern versions are demonstrated and the differences incapabilities discussed. As a result, the students experience a hands-on opportunity to utilizetechnologies from the past. It presents an involvement for students to use old technologies in thelaboratory that they otherwise may never have had expanding their knowledge.Assessment of Student LearningLearning is assessed by performance or how students apply what they have learned. The CourseLearning Outcomes (CLOs) are clearly stated in the

Conference Session

Promoting Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

sharing results andsupports researchers with a cyber-infrastructure thatprovides access to simulation resources,collaboration tools, and centralized data storage andarchived data sets. While a valid EOT model, thisfocus on research proficiency misses a number ofopportunities as it does not acknowledge thatgraduate students will require mentoring andteaching skills in addition to research proficiency intheir future careers. This model also misses theopportunity to engage undergraduate students, Figure 1: Model of education and outreachwho are eager to explore opportunities to inform focused on training and developing graduatetheir decisions about their future workplace or student and post-doctoral researchers.graduate school.The K

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

an emerging need: “…it will become more and moreessential that schools of engineering pay greater attention to the effect of their work on thepersonal development of the students.” (p. 108). Personal development was not described itoften is today in terms of self-fulfillment, rather it is seen more as a prescriptive process to betterfit people to jobs, thus improving production : “…admission to college is an important divisionof the central problem of education — vocational guidance. If any reasonably trustworthymethod of discovering what work each individual is best fitted for can be found, the otherproblems of education will in large measure solve themselves.” (p. 49). The purpose of the corecurriculum—“all the facts, principles, and