Conference Session

Promoting Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Sean P. Brophy, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Thalia Anagnos, San Jose State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

sharing results andsupports researchers with a cyber-infrastructure thatprovides access to simulation resources,collaboration tools, and centralized data storage andarchived data sets. While a valid EOT model, thisfocus on research proficiency misses a number ofopportunities as it does not acknowledge thatgraduate students will require mentoring andteaching skills in addition to research proficiency intheir future careers. This model also misses theopportunity to engage undergraduate students, Figure 1: Model of education and outreachwho are eager to explore opportunities to inform focused on training and developing graduatetheir decisions about their future workplace or student and post-doctoral researchers.graduate school.The K

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

engineering in society. A new addition to definitions ofengineering is that engineers should be resilient and adaptable. The change arises from theincreasingly dynamic nature of engineering that results from the evolution of technology; at thetime the report was written computers were coming into significant use. The theme of life-long Page 24.357.14learning found in earlier reports is more strongly emphasized. The definitions again include theinfluence of economic and capital constraints on engineering work as well as engineering’simpact on the economy: “…engineers must establish and maintain great sensitivity to theeconomic aspects of engineering