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

societywhere those projects exist. Related, Rowena “wanted to understand a little bit more about theway they [engineers] think.” By understanding how they think, she explained, we can bettercomprehend, as Marley also said, “how to use engineering to solve social problems.” When asked about how the course met their expectations, the students responded with agreat deal of focus on how Citizen Engineering helped expand notions of engineering to includenon-engineers’ stakes in engineering projects. Marley was clear about this: “Learning aboutengineering, citizen engineering, will allow me to go into general engineering subjects with moreof a mind toward citizens, not engineers and non experts. More of a willingness to cooperatewith them directly on

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan S Weedon, Case Western Reserve University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

. Prelli Ed., Rhetorics of Display. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2006.14. J. Dunne and S. Pendlebury, “ Practical Reason,” in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Education, N. Blake, et al., Eds. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing, 2003, pp. 194-213.15. A. Johri et al., “The Role of Representations in Engineering Practice: Taking a Turn towards Inscriptions,” J. of Eng. Educ. 102, 1, pp. 2-19, Jan., 2013.16. J. Juhl and H. Lindegaard, “Representations and Visual Synthesis in Engineering Design,” J. of Eng. Educ. 102, 1, pp. 20-50, Jan., 2013.17. L. Suchman “Embodied Practices of Engineering Work,” Mind, Culture, & Activity, 7, 1- 2, pp. 4-18, 2000.18. K. Henderson, On Line and on Paper: Visual

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak Jr, NSF Division of Undergraduate Education; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Technically Speaking3and Tech Tally,4 sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering (NAE), and theTechnology and Engineering Literacy Assessment, developed for all K-12 students as partof the National Assessment of Educational Progress carried out by the US Department ofEducation5. These works developed and elaborated on the elements of technological andengineering literacy that should be achieved by all Americans. In the time since 2000, theNAE has also produced The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the NewCentury6,7. The Engineer of 2020 advocated an effort to clarify and establish engineers as“as broad-based technology leaders, in the mind of the public and prospective students.”Similarly, the NAE’s Changing the Conversation: Messages

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

liberal education2 he argued, in a development ofKrupczak et als paper, that “the defining characteristic of liberal education was “enlargementof mind. This “enlargement” was achieved by the capacity to perceive inter-relationshipsbetween the areas that comprise “universal knowledge” as it is currently understood. Itfollows that consideration of the “product” (technological literacy) without consideration ofthe “process” (engineering literacy) is not a liberal education.”5 Using the model he hadpresented in the earlier paper (exhibit 3) he argued that the solution to engineering problems(the technology) required not only knowledge of engineering science and the mechanics ofmanufacturing but an understanding of the ways of thinking in such areas

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James W Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dominic Francis Gelfuso; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, and cultural objects and ideas.Dominic Francis GelfusoDr. Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Dean Nieusma is Associate Professor in Science and Technology Studies and Director of the Programs in Design and Innovation at Rensselaer. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2016 Contextualizing 3D Printing’s and Photosculpture’s Contributions to Techno-Creative LiteraciesIntroductionAutodesk CEO Carl Bass, upon the 2011 release of Autodesk’s free “123D” CAD-to-3D printingsoftware, claimed that the future of design innovation would be found not within the engineeringindustry, but from the ranks of creative, tinkering consumers. “There are tens of thousands