Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

courses aren’t necessarily designed for learning withoptimized shortcuts, student’s experience a disconnect between what they learn and their “real-life” experiences and tend to use memorization/pattern matching as an easier approach/shortcuttowards learning [12,13].As a first evaluation, it appears that such practices would lead to students who are technically weakand unprepared to meet the demands of engineering environments [14,15]. However, over theyears, it has been observed that students who possess necessary soft skills [16,17] related tolearning, possess curiosity and are engaged in collaborative learning, can adjust and learn inchallenging technical environments despite some deficits in background. In fact, as suggested in[15,18], with