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Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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.3 Though not anexhaustive comprehension, engineering literacy develops citizens through their participation in aculture and society that depends on engineering projects. Engineering literate persons functionfully within such a society, participating in engineering projects not only insofar as engineeringtraining is required, but also in recognition of the broader social impact of those projects. In previous work in engineering literacy, we identified four major factors as significant inself-assessments of engineering literacy: Basic knowledge of engineers and engineering, Impactsof engineering on human life, Thinking and acting like an engineer, and Basic skills in the use oftechnology.4 We used these factors to develop a survey that

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jennifer Karlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Dan Ewert, North Dakota State University; Ronald R Ulseth P.E., Itasca Community College

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international colleagues. He has a broad background in mechanical and electrical engineering, and physiology with specific training and expertise. His work includes mod- eling the cardiovascular system, ventricular assist devices, cardiac physiology, instrumentation systems and leadless cardiac pacing. He help developed and was the inaugural director of a project-based-learning engineering curriculum. He is now involved in discovery-based-learning on multi-disciplinary teams.Mr. Ronald R Ulseth, Itasca Community College Ron Ulseth directs and instructs in the Iron Range Engineering program in Virginia, Minnesota and he teaches in the Itasca Community College engineering program in Grand Rapids, MN. He was instrumental in

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet L. Gbur, Case Western Reserve University; Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University

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Paper ID #14882Promoting Technical Standards Education in EngineeringMiss Janet L. Gbur, Case Western Reserve University Janet L. Gbur is a Doctoral Candidate at Case Western Reserve University in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. She obtained a B.S. in Biology/Pre-Medicine at Kent State University and a B.E. in Materials Engineering and M.S.E. in Mechanical Engineering both from Youngstown State University. During her time at CWRU, she has mentored numerous high school and undergraduate student research projects that have focused on the mechanical characterization of wires used in biomedical

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Dan G. Dimitriu, University of Texas at San Antonio; Mehdi Shadaram P.E., University of Texas, San Antonio

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conference proceedings. He has been either PI or Co-PI for numerous grants and contracts, totaling more than $10 million in the past 15 years. NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Instruments and Lucent Technologies have funded his research projects. He is the recipient of the excellence in engineering research award at the College of Engineering at UTSA in 2010; the best teacher award in the College of Engineering at UTEP in 1994 and NASA monetary award for contribution to the space exploration. He has been the General Chair, Session Chair, TPC Chair, and Panelist in several

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan S Weedon, Case Western Reserve University

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engineering students engaged in a design project and pays particular attention to howstudents make judgments. The analysis concludes that the practice of engineering judgmentrelies on displays to recognize and construct rhetorical tactics to satisfy the requirements of atask. This study connects to recent research in engineering education on the importance ofdisplays 15, 16 for learning the design process, and reveals the dynamics of displays for carryingout engineering judgment. Engineering judgment is a core competency for engineering practice. Philosophers,educators, practitioners, and historians agree that engineering judgment is necessary for ethical,sophisticated, and professional engineering practice1, 2, 3, 4, ,5. While scientific and

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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was effectively over—quite a change from thehours or days of sitting that a figure model could expect to endure in a traditional sculptingstudio.The 24 trans-planar slices were then projected, one by one, onto a screen using a magic lantern.21Artisans and shop workers would trace the outline of the silhouette, using a mechanical devicethat would carve the contours into a piece of clay. Rotating the clay and repeating the process 23times resulted in a mostly-defined bust that featured a photographically-exact representation ofthe subject. Workers in Willéme’s shop would add final touches to the bust, mostly in order tosmooth out the gaps in-between the 24 carved slices, and often to cast the sculpt in a layer ofbronze. Importantly, these final

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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engineering and technological literacyled the Technological Literacy Division seek to incorporate engineering literacy within in itstitle. They sought to define by examples the differences between the two (see exhibit 2). Oneapproach offered by Krupczak et al was to distinguish between the two literacies as processand project which is the approach adopted here. Technologies are the products of the processof engineering. If that is in anyway correct, then while useful to engineering educators inschool and higher education it is no wonder that the public is confused about the differencesbetween “technologists” and “engineers,” and no wonder the media tend to use the term“technologist” more often than they do the term “engineer.” The thinking is easy

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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prepared for work in industry. European Journal of Engineering Education, 30(2), 167-180.Mayo, E. The human problems of an industrial civilization, Cambridge, MA: HarvardMukerji, C. (2009). Impossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on the Canal du Midi. Princeton: Princeton University Press.Nagel J. K. S., Pierrakos O., Zilberberg, A. and McVay S. (2012) Understanding industry experiences: from problem solving to engineering students’ learning gains. Proceedings Frontiers in Education Conference, 2012, 927 – 932.ASEE/IEEENakamura T., Taguchi E., Hirose D., Masahiro I. , Takashima A., "Role-Play Training for Project Management Education Using a Mentor Agent" vol. 3, pp.175-180, 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity CollegeDublin, The University of Dublin

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students for jobs or as an individual Utilitarian Liberal Students as the least powerful members of academia need safe spaces to be themselves as Sharing Security well as spaces to engage with faculty in order to grow and develop. What we provide students as projects often does Actual Students and Societal Impact not match the lofty language we use to discuss Impact Student