Conference Session

Technology Literacy for Engineering Students

Collection

2007 Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Byron Newberry, Baylor University

Tagged Divisions

Technological Literacy Constituent Committee

technology, may not have the training orexperience necessary to think about the social, political, and ethical implications of their workand so may not be technologically literate.”2 As any engineering educator can attest, many of ourstudents express that one of the reasons they gravitate to a technical field is that they are moreinterested in what they perceive to be the “concrete and objective” world of technoscience, andwould like to minimize their contact with the fuzzier world of social, political, and economicconcerns. Heretofore, engineering education has largely obliged these students by concentratingthe curriculum on technical analysis. I have hope, though, that the winds have changed. WithABET’s new requirements for inculcating an