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Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Daniel Flath, Macalester College; Diane P Michelfelder, Macalester College

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students at Macalester College as one contributionto countering this blind spot. In developing this course, our primary interest was to give studentsat an early stage in their academic experience an introduction to engineering, whether they cameto college with the idea of possibly pursuing a career in engineering or whether they wanted toget a deeper understanding of the influence of engineering on the world in which they live. Forthat reason our orientation in this course was different from the orientation found in Bucciarelli’sand Drew’s proposal for integrating the liberal arts with engineering (2015). As we were notprimarily interested in preparing future engineers, our course was less technically(mathematically) focused. Our course was also

Conference Session

Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert M. Briber, University of Maryland, College Park; Romel D Gomez P.E., University of Maryland, College Park

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, microelectronics, electromagnetics, quantum theory and magnetic technology. As the associate chair for undergraduate education, he helped strengthen the ECE curriculum in communications, embedded systems, cyber security, and power. He is the architect of a novel freshman course that introduces fundamental principles of ECE using hands-on pedagogy and a science course for non-STEM majors. Dr. Gomez is also a researcher in the broad areas of micromagnetism and biosensing. He has co-authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications, several book chapters and has three U.S. Patents. He earned his PhD from the University of Maryland, MS from Wayne State in University and BS from the University of the Philippines all in Physics. Among his

Conference Session

Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John W Blake PE, Austin Peay State University; John Krupczak Jr, Hope College

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which engineering literacy coursescan be integrated into the undergraduate curriculum. The broad nature of engineering facilitatesalignment of engineering literacy courses with institutional opportunities. At Union Collegeengineering faculty teach engineering literacy courses as offerings in the required second-year-seminar at Union [15]. The objectives of this college-wide seminar series include an opportunityto do independent research in a focused topical area. Examples of courses include PervasiveComputing and Nanotechnology. Some engineering programs have been successful inestablishing courses that meet university general education requirements. Norton and Bahr [16]offer a course called Materials: Foundations of Society at Washington State

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Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuetong Lin, Indiana State University; A. Mehran Shahhosseini, Indiana State University; M. Affan Badar, University of Sharjah & Indiana State University

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concept-mapping approach both reduces the cognitive load, andimproves learning achievements of the students. Triplett et al. 18 propose Concept-in-Contextmaps (CCmaps) to link a wide array of different types of information that reflect the organizationof content within a topical area in an introductory materials course.While concept maps are deemed to be a good tool to portray knowledge structure and diagnoselearner’s misconception, we are more interested in their integration with generic learningparadigms and in this regard, our research shows the combination of active learning strategy withconcept mapping has led to plausible results for student oriented learning. Tembe and Kamble 19have studied 414 concept maps from 207 basic school students

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Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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understanding of four groups. The groups are students and faculty inengineering and industrial design. A survey was created to identify the perspectives, ideas, andthe definitions of engineering and technological literacy as well as the purpose, and the contentof the classes in these areas. There have been challenges to get responses from engineering andindustrial design faculty and engineering students.The department of Industrial Design (in the College of Design) is the only department that hasincluded technological literacy as their core curriculum. The two technological literacy classes(“From thoughts to things” and “How things work”) have been selected as the core requirementsfor industrial design program. Students take these classes in their

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The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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is currently interested in engineering design education, engineering education policy, and the philosophy of engineering education.Dr. John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin John Heywood is Professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin- The University of Dublin. He is a Fellow of ASEE and Life Fellow of IEEE. he is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers of Ireland. He has special interest in education for the professions and the role of professions in society. He is author of Engineering Education. Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruction. His most recent book is The assessment of learning in Engineering Education Practice and Policy. IEEE Press/Wiley

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The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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provide evidence of significant integration and cross-pollination between STSand what has come to be known as TELPhE. In their historical overview of “EngineeringPractice as an Emerging Field of Inquiry,” Williams and Figueiredo provide a representativetimeline depicting major contributions to research on engineering practice between 1911 and2014. Many of the authors and works included on the timeline would qualify as canonical, or atleast easily identifiable as, works in STS, for example, Latour’s Science in Action (1987), Law’s“Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion” (1987), Downey, TheMachine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers (1998), and Mukerji’sImpossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on

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Aspects of Engineering Literacy and Community and Industry Engagement

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mike Thomas Pitcher, University of Texas, El Paso; Pedro Arturo Espinoza, University of Texas, El Paso; Oscar Antonio Perez, University of Texas at El Paso; Hugo Gomez, University of Texas, El Paso; Randy Hazael Anaya, University of Texas, El Paso; Hector Erick Lugo Nevarez, University of Texas at El Paso; Peter Golding P.E., University of Texas at El Paso; Erik Lopez; Deena Mustin, UTEP Academic Technologies ; Robin Munoz, Academic Technologies; Jackeline Munoz; Sarah Huizar, UTEP Academic Technologies Learning Environments; Crystal Fernandez-Pena, Carnegie Mellon University; Celena Arreola; Tetyana Zhyvotovska, University of Texas at El Paso

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heavily integrated into the classroom piece whichwould be not be replicable in our project as we had no classroom piece to use to grade such. “Inengineering, there are many examples of service-learning programs ranging from freshmanintroductory courses to senior capstone courses. Despite their successes, an area that theengineering education community has yet to fully develop is the reflection component of service-learning.”3 We have made a conscious choice to keep the project housed outside the bounds of a forcredit course due to student feedback which will be specifically discussed in the results section.RESULTS The exhibits that have been created over the years have varied greatly in design and have grown in depthand complexity over that