Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mark Valenzuela P.E., University of Evansville; Valerie A. Stein, University of Evansville

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Diversity

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

, citing thecriticisms of employers of engineering graduates who lacked communication skills, businessacumen, and “an understanding of men.” [sic]1Sir Eric Ashy writes in 1959 that he sees a higher purpose to a humanistic education, not just intaking specific courses, but in making sense of the technology the engineer employs in itswholeness, what he calls the essence of “technological humanism.”2Samuel Florman in 1968 provides five reasons for studying the liberal arts in the introductorychapter “The Civilized Engineer” of his book Engineering and the Liberal Arts. Three of thereasons are for the personal benefit for the engineer, including an appreciation of beauty,enhancing the imagination, and the development of leadership characteristics. Two

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia

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

increase thestatus or decrease the grading load of the instructors, and it perpetuated a reductionist conceptionof technical communication that persists outside of the field to this day. Perhaps the moststriking feature of the situation was described by Kynell: “A great irony in the evolution oftechnical communication in an engineering curriculum was the virtual second class statusimposed on the discipline by [emphasis added] those who taught it” (p. 93). They accepted aposition that they typically agreed was below both the teaching of literature and the teaching ofengineering—and they got out of it as soon as possible, or perhaps just got used to it. Onceoutsourcing was established as a dominant model, it has been very difficult to dislodge, both

Conference Session

Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Paper ID #29656Whither engineering and technological Literacy? Cui Bono 2.Prof. John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin John Heywood is professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin- The University of Dublin. he is a Fellow of ASEE and Life Fellow of IEEE. he is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Ireland. He has special interest in education for the professions and the role of professions in society, and the work of ASEE’s TELPhE division from whom he has received a best paper and meritorious service awards. He is author of Engineering Education. Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruc

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

provide evidence of significant integration and cross-pollination between STSand what has come to be known as TELPhE. In their historical overview of “EngineeringPractice as an Emerging Field of Inquiry,” Williams and Figueiredo provide a representativetimeline depicting major contributions to research on engineering practice between 1911 and2014. Many of the authors and works included on the timeline would qualify as canonical, or atleast easily identifiable as, works in STS, for example, Latour’s Science in Action (1987), Law’s“Heterogeneous Engineering: The Case of Portuguese Expansion” (1987), Downey, TheMachine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers (1998), and Mukerji’sImpossible Engineering: Technology and Territoriality on

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

attributes such as structure, moisture content, and electrical charge. Thosecan be dealt with at a later time when the students are better able to cope with abstractions. Aspiral curriculum describes an approach to the design of the curriculum that is built on thisidea. Thus, in this example the students meet the concept on several occasions during theschooling and on each occasion more material is added to the understanding of the concept.Graduate student teachers including scientists and engineers find it difficult to defineattributes and values but the evidence is that when they are forced to think about thedominant features of a concept they find it to be an aid in the planning and implementation ofa lesson. It is also evident that part of the

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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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

heavily integrated into the classroom piece whichwould be not be replicable in our project as we had no classroom piece to use to grade such. “Inengineering, there are many examples of service-learning programs ranging from freshmanintroductory courses to senior capstone courses. Despite their successes, an area that theengineering education community has yet to fully develop is the reflection component of service-learning.”3 We have made a conscious choice to keep the project housed outside the bounds of a forcredit course due to student feedback which will be specifically discussed in the results section.RESULTS The exhibits that have been created over the years have varied greatly in design and have grown in depthand complexity over that

Conference Session

Defining and Refining Technological and Engineering Literacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Stephen T Frezza, Gannon University; Richard W. Moodey, Gannon University; David Arthur Nordquest, Gannon University; Krishnakishore Pilla P.E., Gannon University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Integration: In defining “mental integration,” Sorokin states that the “integration of twoor more meanings into one system is an act of creation occurring in the human mind.” (7 p. 63)This treats it as a covert act “in the human mind.” Vanderburg’s description of “invention”includes both covert acts, covert states, and overt acts (8 pp. 135-6), although the acts ofexploring and working out details are usually overt actions, including actions such as writing,calculating, sketching, building physical models, and conversing with others.Empirical Objectification: Sorokin’s characterization of empirical objectification emphasizesthe need for "empirical vehicles through which [new knowledge propositions] can be conveyedto others.” (7 p. 64)These can be

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

into the curriculum, in essence attempting pragmatic definitions of Page 24.357.6engineering. There are tensions that the Mann report never fully resolves around the practical vs.theoretical or abstract vs. material elements of engineering. At the time more theoretical subjectswere covered in the first two years, while more technical subjects were taught in the latter two.This structure arose from the definition of engineering as an applied science: “The conceptionunderlying this and all later curricula is that engineering is applied science; and therefore, toteach engineering, it is necessary first to teach science and then to apply it…Only

Conference Session

Technological Literacy for Undergraduate Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Lauren Aprill

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

they are likely to encounter in advanced course work in a specificengineering discipline. Achievement of either of these goals would require appropriatecurriculum materials and learning activities. Some of the curriculum materials used in currentexisting introduction to engineering courses may require modification to better meet thetechnological literacy goal of a broad understanding of a wide range of technology.An additional consideration regarding introduction to engineering courses lies in acknowledgingthat not all students enrolled in an introduction to engineering course will persist to completionof an engineering major. Setting aside the issue of why these students leave engineering, it isreasonable to suggest that introduction to

Conference Session

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

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Y. Curtis Wang, California State University, Los Angeles; Jim Kuo, California State University, Los Angeles; He Shen, California State University, Los Angeles; David E. Raymond, California State University, Los Angeles; Mathias J. Brieu, California State University, Los Angeles

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

of any other mechanical engineering course in the undergraduate curriculum. Thus, thisrepresented the identification of the first quantitative criterion used to assess the “health” of thecourse design: the non-completion rate. A discussion amongst department faculty members wassubsequently initiated for redesigning the course with an aim to improve the non-completionrate. This discussion led us to identify a second concern, which was that the statics knowledgeand skills of students who passed the course could not meet faculty expectations in downstreamcourses within the program. We, therefore, identified a second evaluation criterion regarding thequality of the course: the mastery level of specific knowledge and skills of students passing

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 2

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

and Engineering Ethics journal were found using a keyword search on“human rights” AND privacy. Privacy is also a key issue in computing education, being requiredunder the ABET Computing Accreditation Commission’s criteria (5. Curriculum, (a)2.d. Humansecurity) [37] and recommended for computer engineering education (e.g. in the ACM/IEEE’sCurricular Guidelines [38], privacy is found among the Preparation for Professional Practiceoutcome 9, contemporary issues). A general discussion of scenarios and issues related to ethicsand privacy is provided by Britz [39] from the perspective of an information professional.Human rights are discussed as one of three ethical norms applicable to privacy (also includingtruth and freedom). The paper is written

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William R. Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Terence Geyer, Eastern Washington University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, San Antonio, Texas, June 10-13, 2012.21. Loendorf, W. R., & Geyer, T. (2008). Bridging the historical technological gap between the past and the present in engineering technology curriculum. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 22-25, 2008.22. Loendorf, W. R., & Geyer, T. (2009). Integrating historical technologies and their impact on society into today’s engineering curriculum. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Austin, Texas, June 14-17, 2009.23. Loendorf, W. R., & Geyer, T. (2010). Promoting technological literacy by utilizing pictures and recreated

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 4

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Paper ID #25326Cui Bono. Engineering and Technological Literacy and Higher EducationDr. John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin John Heywood is professorial Fellow Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin- The University of Dublin. he is a Fellow of ASEE and Life Fellow of IEEE. he is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Ireland. 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; The Assessment of learning in Engineering Education; The human Side of Engineering, and Empowering

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

poor grade on an exam or essay does notsignificantly detract from an otherwise good performance.Class participation is encouraged and considered in the final grade where close decisions arerequired. Attendance is taken daily by using a sign in sheet with penalties imposed to discourageabsences. Anything discussed in class (including the content of videos) is fair game to beincluded on the exams.Lessons LearnedWhat began as a small project to introduce students to technological literacy in one college classhas become so successful that it is continually being expanded. Many lessons have been learnedwhile integrating recreated artifacts, collected retro technologies, graphic images, pictures, andvideos into the class sessions along with

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and Technological Policy

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert A. Heard, Carnegie Mellon University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

cultures needs to be accomplished via a two way street. In the technical college (CIT) we have embraced a broad focus on humanities. Our engineering students in their undergraduate education must take a minimum of eight humanity based courses, three of which must form a depth sequence of which at least one course in this sequence must be taken at an advanced level. These are not math, computing or technical business courses, but true humanity offerings. The belief is that a balanced curriculum provides the best education for our engineers. The reverse flow of having humanities students study technical courses is not as widelypracticed. Part of the hesitation for humanities students coming into technical course is therequirement

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

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, linking other researchers andpractitioners (industry) to innovative research, and informing the public of research results andtheir impact on society. The George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake EngineeringSimulation (NEES), an NSF-funded network of 14 large-scale experimental laboratoriesconnected by a robust cyberinfrastructure, completes its tenth year of operation in September2014. Its mission is to reduce the impact of earthquakes and tsunamis on society throughresearch, innovation, engineering, and education. Since the launch of NEES in 2003 the EOTprogram has grown from a federation of outreach activities run independently at the experimentallaboratories to an integrated network of

Conference Session

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Donna M Riley, Virginia Tech; Yanna Lambrinidou, Virginia Tech

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Diversity

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

government agencies. In 2010, Dr. Lambrinidou co-conceived the graduate level engineering ethics course ”Engi- neering Ethics and the Public,” which she has been co-teaching to students in engineering and science. She is co-Principal Investigator on a National Science Foundation (NSF) research and education project developing an ethnographic approach to engineering ethics education. Page 26.322.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 Canons against Cannons? Social Justice and the Engineering Ethics ImaginaryAbstractWhat if social

Conference Session

Defining and Refining Technological and Engineering Literacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Mehmet Cetin, Temple University; Jyothsna Kavuturu

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

implemented is specific, and does not allow for the "serendipititous" approach-making discoveries by accident.- often found in general database searching. Utilizing a generalsearch engines such as Web of Knowledge or Scopus or others often adds to the to the wideknowledge which can be found and integrate within the students' technological literacy.However, the reviewer’s comment will be implemented in the next study along with alternatetechniques of searching various databases to add to the technological literacy of students.There have been cases where eLearning appeared to have resulted in enhanced performance,when in fact the enhanced performance was due to the careful design of the curriculum anddelivery of it that led to it (Reviewer’s comment

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

literacy inother fields and other areas of their lives. It should also here be noted that both these studentsintend to apply to graduate programs in engineering after their undergraduate degrees. What, exactly, had these students’ experiences with engineers been? By developing somebaseline for what an engineer is, and what students’ interactions with engineers and engineeringhas been, we can extrapolate some ideas for implementing engineering literacy into a curriculum. Common understandings of engineers and engineering often begin with stereotypes.5,6Students, when asked about their experiences with engineers and engineering, brought severalstereotypes as their basis for examining those experiences. Rowena said, “I experienced a lot

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

, and applied ethics journals. Herkert previously served as Editor of IEEE Technology and Society Magazine and an Associate Editor of Engineering Studies. He is or has been an active leader in many professional or- ganizations including the Society for Ethics Across the Curriculum, the Society on Social Implications of Technology (SSIT) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the National Insti- tute for Engineering Ethics, and the Engineering Ethics and Liberal Education/Engineering and Society (LEES) Divisions of the American Society for Engineering Education. In 2005 Herkert received the Ster- ling Olmsted Award, the highest honor bestowed by LEES, for ”making significant contributions in

Conference Session

Defining and Refining Technological and Engineering Literacy

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Presentacion Rivera-Reyes, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Raymond Edward Boyles, Technology and Engineering Education

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

where he worked training engineers and technicians in high-speed transmission system for backbone networks.Dr. Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University Oenardi Lawanto is an assistant professor in the Department of Engineering Education at Utah State Uni- versity, USA. He received his B.S.E.E. from Iowa State University, his M.S.E.E. from the University of Dayton, and his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before coming to Utah State, Dr. Lawanto taught and held several administrative positions at one large private university in Indonesia. In his years of teaching experiences in the area of electrical engineering, he has gained new perspectives on teaching and learning. He has developed and

Conference Session

Technological Literacy and the Non-science College Student

Collection

2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Robert M. Brooks, Temple University; Jyothsna Kavuturu; Mehmet Cetin, Temple University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

thinking to reality depends on similar cognitive processes to rationalthought 9.Creativity comes in different forms. A number of thinkers suggest models of creative people. Forexample, one model indicates that there are kinds to produce growth, innovation, speed, etc. Thefour Creativity Profiles: incubate, imagine, improve, and invest can help achieve such goals 10:Mark Batey suggested that the creative profile can be explained by four primary creativity traits.These are: idea generation, personality, motivation, and confidence 11-12.Creative industries and servicesToday, creativity is the core activity of a growing section of the global economy known as the"creative industries." The creative professional workforce is merging as an integral part

Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part II

Collection

2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

William R Loendorf, Eastern Washington University; Terence L Geyer, Eastern Washington University; Donald C. Richter, Eastern Washington University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

. Loendorf, W. R., 2012: “Using Stories to Promote Technological Literacy,” Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, San Antonio, Texas, June 10-13, 2012.11. Loendorf, W. R., & Geyer, T. (2008). Bridging the Historical Technological Gap Between the Past and the Present in Engineering Technology Curriculum. Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, June 22-25, 2008.12. Loendorf, W. R., & Geyer, T. (2009). Integrating Historical Technologies and their Impact on Society into Today’s Engineering Curriculum, Proceedings of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) Conference, Austin, Texas, June 14-17

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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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Diversity

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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

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

James W Malazita, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Dominic Francis Gelfuso; Dean Nieusma, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

process aremore blurred, and play is encouraged. Thus, though photosculpture was dismissed as beingunable to truly capture aesthetic “beauty” or creative “genius”—fundamental properties ofartistic mastery—3D printing needs only to afford the ability to be “more creative.” In an oddway, the rhetoric of 3D printing, particularly its ability to further galvanize a burgeoning popularcreative movement, may be successful because of its lack of the ontological burden of art. Inother words, because 3D printing does not have to strive to be art, it is free to do educational andcritical work beyond art. We draw out some of the implications of this comparative history fortechnological literacies—both in terms of public engagement with technology and in

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jonathan S Weedon, Case Western Reserve University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

. Necessary as the analytical tools of science and mathematics most certainly are, more important is the development in student and neophyte engineers of sound judgment and an intuitive sense of fitness and adequacy. No matter how vigorously a “science” of design may be pushed, the successful design of real things in a contingent world will always be based more on art than on science. Unquantifiable judgments and choices are the elements that determine the way a design comes together. Engineering design is simply that kind of process. It always has been; it always will be. 2 Ferguson implies that engineering judgment is something informed by mathematics andscience, but states that engineering judgment