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Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Janet L. Gbur, Case Western Reserve University; Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University

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workshops organized in either collaborations by industry, government,and academia12 or as a singular effort. Initiatives from universities include use of standardsin capstone projects12-13 and design classes.14-15 Academic libraries also play a role instandards education by providing campus-wide access to standards collections, teachingabout standards through research guides,16 library instruction sessions,17 collaboration withfaculty18 and organizing small scale local workshops, etc.On our campus, the analysis of a library survey sent to returning co-op students by theengineering librarian revealed a strong need for standards education. There was also interest indeveloping a standards workshop from two graduate students who were active members

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

  21 Century,  Rising  Above  the  Gathering  Storm:  Energizing  and  Employing  America  for  a  Brighter   st   Economic  Future.  Washington,  D.C.,  National  Academies  Press  (2005).     4. Duderstadt,  J.  J.,  Engineering  for  a  Changing  World:  A  Roadmap  to  the  Future  of  Engineering   Practice,  Research,  and  Education.  Ann  Arbor,  Michigan,  University  of  Michigan  Press,  (2007).     5. Boyer,  E.  ,  Reinventing  Undergraduate  Education  (The  Boyer  Commission  Report).  New  York:   Carnegie  Foundation  (2001).     6. Clough,  G.  W.  (Chair),  The  Engineer  of  2020:  Visions  of  Engineering  in  the  New  Century.  National   Academy  of

Conference Session

TELPhE Division Technical Session 2: The Broadening Face of Engineering Education

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Mousumi Roy P.E., University of Connecticut

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

options. The Medical profession has been a part of the human society since evolution. However,medical practices were revolutionized in the 19th century by advances in chemistry, laboratorytechniques, and equipment. public health measures, rise of modern medicine based on scientificresearch, use of statistical approach in epidemiology reduced the death rates and longevity grewin nineteenth and twentieth century. Research and practice in medical field were limited tomedical professionals only until the early part of the 20th century. One of the earlyinterdisciplinary researchers, Francis Crick was a molecular biologist, biophysicist andneurologist. He received Nobel prize in 1962 for physiology, with James Watson, anothermicrobiologist for

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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course. This leads us to wonder what the impact is upon women students’ interest inan engineering career from taking a course such as ours, compared to the impact upon women’sstudents’ interest in an engineering career where the outcomes of the design process are moretangible.A second line of research may also be suggested by our course. It has been shown thatengineering students have difficulty connecting the dots between what they learn about ethicaltheory in their classes and engineering design problems (for example, see Michelfelder andJones, 2016). There is some debate within the engineering community as to whether or not ethicsis best presented through case studies or as ethical theory. Does emphasizing the process ofthinking like an

Conference Session

Curriculum Development in Technological Literacy

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Jayanta K. Banerjee, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus

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and act globally’. The transitionfrom STEM to STEAM can have that global impact by leveraging the arts as a way to communicate andconnect globally.Key words: Art, aesthetics, design in engineering, expressive and sensory qualities, form.IntroductionAesthetics as a subject of formal study in higher education was first emphasized by John Dewey for theUS schools. Dewey referred to art as an experience between the artist, the work of art and its observer[1]. Each time an observer looks at Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, a new Mona Lisa is born. Art is acontinuum from the germination of an idea to the culmination of a complex creation in its supremeform. Aesthetics is a common thread in this process which is essentially a process of the

Conference Session

Experience in Assessing Technological Literacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Century, Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future. Washington, D.C., National Academies Press (2005). 2. Duderstadt, J. J., Engineering for a Changing World: A Roadmap to the Future of Engineering Practice, Research, and Education. Ann Arbor, Michigan, University of Michigan Press, (2007). 3. Boyer, E. ,Reinventing Undergraduate Education (The Boyer Commission Report). New York: Carnegie Foundation (2001). 4. Clough, G. W. (Chair), The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century. National Academy of Engineering, Washington, D.C., National Academies Press (2004). 5. Council on Competitiveness, Innovate America: Thriving in a

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

“Technology Literacy: How StuffWorks.”14 An example of the impact of these types of courses is that pre-service elementaryteachers lowered anxiety, increased perceived value, and increased motivation for science andtechnology.Union College has directly addressed the perceived (or actual) gap between engineering and theliberal arts and have proposed a Converging Technology paradigm to address this gap.15 Theyask the two important questions about this discontinuity. “Can we continue to produce liberalarts graduates who have little understanding of the technical world in which they live? Can weafford to produce engineers with little understanding of implications of those technologies forthe world?” They offer the following definition of technological

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity CollegeDublin, The University of Dublin

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Bucknell University. He is currently interested in engineering design education, engineering education policy, and the philosophy of engineering education.Dr. John Heywood, Trinity CollegeDublin, The University of Dublin John Heywood is professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin- The University of Dublin. He is a Fellow of ASEE and Life Sen. Member of IEEE. 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 (Wiley/IEEE),and The Assessment ofLlearning in Engineering Education: Practice and Policy. c American Society for Engineering Education

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan Grunert, Virginia Tech; Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech; Stephanie G. Adams, Virginia Tech

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previously served as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies in the School of Engineering at Virginia Commonwealth University and was a faculty member and administrator at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Her research interests include: Teamwork, International Collaborations, Fac- ulty Development, Quality Control/Management and Broadening Participation. She is an honor graduate of North Carolina A&T State University, where she earned her BS in Mechanical Engineering, in 1988. In 1991 she was awarded the Master of Engineering degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. She received her Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Engineering from Texas A&M University in 1998. She is the recipient

Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part I

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

 active  learning.  We  believe  that  engineering  education  needs  fundamental  modifications  and  new  approaches  to  match  the  needs  of  the  21st  Century.  In  previous  papers  and  presentations,  we  have  discussed  classes  and  curricula  that  are  based  on  the  Deweyan  pragmatic  philosophy  and  argued  that  they  have  tremendous  potential  for  creating  critical  thinkers  and  lifelong  learners  and  therefore  more  adaptable  problem  solvers  than  the  current  crop  of  engineering-­‐education  graduates.    Authors  have  also  identified  the  studio  model  as  the  best  course  structure  for  accommodating  Deweyan  philosophy.    However,  a  shift  to  that  model  requires  a  comprehensive  review

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

theme that emerges with the increased importance of science is that creativity andresearch become the pinnacle of engineering work. Thus engineering education should focus on:“…the development of able and responsible men fully competent to practice on a professionalplane, especially those who will eventually lead the profession to new heights of accomplishmentthrough creative practice or research.” The Grinter report defines the distinctive aspects ofengineering curricula to be creative: “Education directed toward the creative and practicalphases of economic design, involving analysis, synthesis, development, and engineeringresearch”. Compared with the Mann report, the Grinter report is more prescriptive when itcomes to the engineering

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William R. Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Jason K Durfee P.E. P.E., Eastern Washington University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Paper ID #9030Using Multiple Methods to Promote Technological LiteracyDr. William R Loendorf, Eastern Washington University William R. Loendorf is a Full Professor, Emeritus of Engineering & Design at Eastern Washington Uni- versity. He obtained his B.Sc. in Engineering Science at the University of Wisconsin - Parkside, M.S. in Electrical Engineering at Colorado State University, M.B.A. at the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management, and Ph.D. in Engineering Management at Walden University. He holds a Professional En- gineer license and has 30 years of industrial experience as an Engineer or Engineering Manager at

Conference Session

TELPhE Division Technical Session 2: The Broadening Face of Engineering Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Paper ID #32926Kindness in Engineering EducationDr. Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder Angela Bielefeldt is a professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Department of Civil, Envi- ronmental, and Architectural Engineering (CEAE) and Director for the Engineering Plus program. She has served as the Associate Chair for Undergraduate Education in the CEAE Department, as well as the ABET assessment coordinator. Professor Bielefeldt was also the faculty director of the Sustainable By Design Residential Academic Program, a living-learning community where students learned about and practice

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and Technological Policy

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Zachary Foltz, Iowa State University; Amanpreet Kaur, Iowa State University; William Henry Tushaus, Iowa State University; Christopher Sears Mikelson, Iowa State University; Brian Vincent Skalak; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Energy’sresponsibility as much as committees of both chamber of the United States Congress.The current Secretary of Energy is Dr. Steven Chu. Secretary Chu is a well-known scientist, whoreceived a Nobel Prize for Physics. Chu also educates the next generation of scientists as auniversity professor. Before President Obama appointed Chu to Secretary of Energy, Chu was adirector of a national laboratory of the Department of Energy. As Secretary of Energy, Chu’smain job is to implement President Obama’s energy plans [12].The current Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is Senator JeffBingaman, a Democrat from New Mexico. Senator Bingaman graduated with degrees ingovernment and law. After working for the Army Reserves and practicing private

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Xiaofeng Tang, Penn State University; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Activities Board (TAB).9 Page 26.977.4In December 1972, CSIT published the first issue of the IEEE CSIT Newsletter, whose coverlisted the new Committee’s purposes: 1. Develop means to encourage and support professional and social responsibility in the practice of engineering. 2. Promote sensitivity to and understanding of the interaction between technology and society. 3. Foster study, discussion and appropriate action involving IEEE members and others. 4. Promote the conception of means and implement programs for predicting and evaluating the impact of technology on society. 5. Take appropriate action to implement programs.10In a short editorial

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Amy E. Slaton, Drexel University (Eng. & Eng. Tech.); Joseph R. Herkert, Arizona State University

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Diversity

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Engineering Ethics, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

turned in significantnumbers to the codification of best practices and ethical priorities. That burst of ethics-writingactivity was followed by others through the twentieth century, Davis explains, usually instigatedby moments of great growth in the profession or of notable outside pressures for self-regulation.1,2 Codes of ethics have customarily mandated rigorous, honest, and disinterestedengineering practice and depending on the sub-field, also more specific instructions regardingpertinent materials, technical processes, and commercial relations. These instruments are Page 26.1723.3essentially optimistic in projecting a desired future