Conference Session

Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Maria E. Garlock, Princeton University; Aatish Bhatia, Princeton University; Evelyn Hanna Laffey, Princeton University

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utilizing evidence-based teachingpractices and case studies. Figure 1. Student responses to their perception of greatest challenge.Resonance Resonates: Predict, Experience, ReflectAn effective approach for implementing an interactive lecture demonstration involves threestages: predict, experience, and reflect [10]. This Section defines each stage and how it wasexecuted in a lecture with the objective of teaching students about resonance in buildings duringan earthquake.PredictIn a study by Crouch et al. [11], it is shown that students who just passively observe ademonstration do not have a better understanding of the subject than students who do notobserve the demonstration at all. However, involving students by asking them to predict

Conference Session

Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Paper ID #18355Technological and Engineering Literacy Classes from different perspectives:A pilot studyDr. Mani Mina, Iowa State University Mani Mina is with the department of Industrial Design and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He has been working on better understanding of students’ learning and aspects of tech- nological and engineering philosophy and literacy. In particular how such literacy and competency are reflected in curricular and student activities. His interests also include Design and Engineering, the human side of engineering, new ways of teaching engineering in particular

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Gary P. Halada, Stony Brook University; Peter H. Khost, Stony Brook University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

tales, a more holistic approach may beachieved: one which happens to be reflected in student learning outcomes associated with ABETaccreditation of undergraduate engineering programs. In addition, by exploring ‘missingnarratives’ – voices and stories that are silenced or excluded in a given narrative – we can betterunderstand the role of ethics and values in engineering designs and technological failures. Thisapproach allows for a learning-through-questioning, problem-based approach which has aninherent multidisciplinary appeal and the ability to motivate STEM student learning whileexploring questions of social justice, diversity, sustainability and global concerns.In a broader context, technologies themselves are inseparable from the concept

Conference Session

Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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wholedoes not warrant attention in the curriculum. But given the traditional mission of so many liberalarts colleges of preparing students for active lives as informed citizens, and the desire if notpassion of so many liberal arts college students to change the world and improve the quality ofhuman life, the lack of such introductory courses is evidence of a lingering, and troublesome,blind spot in the liberal arts college environment.In this paper, we—one of us a mathematician with a background in engineering and the other aphilosopher with a background in philosophy of technology and philosophy of engineering—describe and reflect on our experiences in the Fall of 2016 team-teaching Thinking Like anEngineer, a course we developed for first year

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

-engineers. Grunert and Adams(2016) reflect this consensus when they assert that “engineering literacy develops citizensthrough their participation in a culture and society that depends on engineering projects.Engineering literate persons function fully within such a society, participating in engineeringprojects not only insofar as engineering training is required, but also in recognition of the broadersocial impact of those projects.” Their paper highlights an interesting finding from their previousresearch: an “absence of meaningful difference between students in engineering courses of studyand students in non-engineering programs.” Of course, this recognition goes at least as far back as “Improving TechnologicalLiteracy” (2002), in which

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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children. Through it the accumulated wisdom of a culture is transmitted. Eggleston’s paradigm is similar to the “Scholar Academic ideology” proposed by Schiro. “Scholar academics” writes Schiro, “assume that the academic disciplines, the world of the intellect, and the world of knowledge are loosely equivalent. The central task of education is taken to be the extension of the components of this equivalence, both on the cultural level as reflected in the discovery of new truth, and on the individual level, as reflected in the enculturation of individuals into civilization’s accumulated knowledge and ways of knowing” [12]. Jerome Bruner a distinguished American psychologist wrote: “A body of

Conference Session

Aspects of Engineering Literacy and Community and Industry Engagement

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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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methodology towards assessing this project has been adapted over the course of sevenyears. The original methodology was based on the learning outcome of whether students couldcomplete the soldering of a circuit board. Upon reflection, the first year’s methodology whileadequate limited the focus and didn’t capture the full range of skills development of the students.The original methodology was focused around the deliverable itself to assess the success of theproject and learning objectives. In the second and subsequent years, additional assessments havebeen added to try to capture the full magnitude of the process. These assessments focus on specificskills obtained, level of collaboration and transfer of skills between majors, soft skills learned

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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ideas of existence (that something physically existsin the world) and essence (the underlying rationale for a thing’s state of being) have becomedecoupled. This decoupling, i.e. disconnect of artefacts from the natural world, has led tomeans being separated from ends leading to a crisis for civilization (MacIntyre, 2009). Itmay be that our disconnect from the essence of existence triggers a need for control that isexpressed through mastering technology. Feenberg framed technology dialectically on twoaxes: (1) whether technology reflects or stands separate from human values, and (2) whethertechnological developments can be managed by humans or are ultimately incontrollable(Feenberg, 2006; Mitcham, 1994). Mapping definitions to these axes

Conference Session

Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Brian P Kirkmeyer, Miami University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

musical instruments that are used in heavy metal music function. 4. Students will explain how each instrument serves a musical need for specific subgenres of heavy metal. 5. Students will identify the worldwide influences and impact of heavy metal music. 6. Students will describe how heavy metal music serves as a vehicle to know about global culture and government function.This course serves to discuss engineering and technology through heavy metal’s creation andevolution. Additional discussions explore social perceptions of and responses by the culture ofmetal, and how its growth reflects politics and society worldwide. In these ways, the courserepresents many of the tenets of liberal education promoted at the host

Conference Session

Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak Jr, Hope College; Mani Mina, Iowa State University; Kate A Disney, Mission College

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

working on better understanding of students’ learning and aspects of tech- nological and engineering philosophy and literacy. In particular how such literacy and competency are reflected in curricular and student activities. His interests also include Design and Engineering, the human side of engineering, new ways of teaching engineering in particular Electromagnetism and other classes that are mathematically driven. His research and activities also include on avenues to connect Product Design and Engineering Education in a synergetic way.Kate A Disney, Mission College Kate Disney has been teaching engineering at the community college level since 1990. Her interests are promoting greater gender and racial balance in

Conference Session

Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

Conference Session

Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

engineering.This community of college and university educators has a home in the American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE). Over the past two decades, an interest group was formed withinthe Liberal Education / Engineering and Society (LEES) division, and this interest group grew tothe point of becoming a separate division. This division, originally the Technological LiteracyDivision (TED), recently changed its name to reflect its interest in and promote teaching non-engineers about engineering. Now known as the Technological and Engineering Literacy /Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhE) Division, a primary part of the division’s mission is topromote efforts to teach people who are not engineering students about engineering.Today, the TELPhE Division