Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak Jr, National Science Foundation; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Kate A Disney, Mission College

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

EC 2000, the means of assessing thetechnological understanding of the majority of undergraduates who are not engineering studentsis yet to be systematically addressed. The work reported here describes the initial stages of aneffort to develop a technological literacy assessment suitable for use with students who are notintending careers in STEM disciplines. As an initial starting point, the work focuses on abilitiesrelated to the identification and characterization of systems. Specific abilities include identifyinga system and its boundaries, recognition of inputs and outputs, analysis of system structure,determination of subfunctions within the system, recognition of major components, associatingspecific physical processes with particular

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bill Williams, CEG-IST Universidade de Lisboa; Jose Figueiredo, IST, Universidade de Lisboa

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

for engineering students to developand practice such skills and for instructors to assess their acquisition is a major challenge facingthose involved with engineering education and training today. Furthermore, given recentadvances in the areas of IT simulation tools and in augmented computing, it would seem thatBucciarelli’s proposals (2003) regarding the harnessing of the power of online technology could 1 1 See for example Tilli and Trevelyan (2008): “An underlying assumption that has informed our thinkingabout engineering work is that training and experience is an essential component of the first few years of anengineering career. This assumption is based on data from the framework study interviews in which allparticipants said that

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Grunert, Virginia Tech; Stephanie G. Adams, Virginia Tech

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Science Foundation’s most prestigious, Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) award. She is a Fellow of the American So- ciety of Engineering Education, holds membership in a number of organizations and presently serves on the National Advisory Board of the National Society of Black Engineers. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016     Increasing Engineering Literacy among Non-engineering Students Definitions of engineering literacy, as a concept, revolve around abilities andawarenesses those who are engineering literate have