Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

the journals as currently organized create a continuous dialogue.There is an opportunity for educational leaders to emerge.DiscussionRecently there has been much interest in the integration of engineering with liberal educationand the Liberal Education/Engineering in Society Division of ASEE has taken a lead in such Page 26.1572.12discussions. An excellent example of integration is the model curriculum for schoolsdescribed by the SCANS committee26. This committee had recommended that the US highschool curriculum should develop five work place competencies resources, interpersonal,information, system and technology

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

describe the importance of service courses to an engineering curriculum andthe role that engineering service courses can play in a liberal arts curriculum. Several examplesare given as well as suggested opportunities for engineering departments to service theiruniversity through technical literacy courses. A specific example of a technical service course isa course taught by the author while on sabbatical at the USAF Academy. This course was anintroductory course in aeronautics required by all students at the USAF Academy. The author’ssection had 23 students from majors as varied as English and History as well as Chemistry andCivil Engineering. In the syllabus 50 points (out of 1000) were allocated to instructor points tobe used how the instructor

Conference Session

Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Diversity

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

experiences.Dr. Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech Marie C. Paretti is an Associate Professor of Engineering Education at Virginia Tech, where she co- directs the Virginia Tech Engineering Communications Center (VTECC). Her research focuses on com- munication in engineering design, interdisciplinary communication and collaboration, design education, and gender in engineering. She was awarded a CAREER grant from the National Science Foundation to study expert teaching in capstone design courses, and is co-PI on numerous NSF grants exploring com- munication, design, and identity in engineering. Drawing on theories of situated learning and identity development, her work includes studies on the teaching and learning of communication

Conference Session

Communication Across the Divisions II: Communication and Transdisciplinary Pedagogies

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Jeffrey J. Evans, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Amy S. Van Epps, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Michael Thomas Smith; Sorin Adam Matei, Purdue University Polytechnic Institute; Esteban Garcia

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Diversity

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

Lafayette Amy S. Van Epps is an associate professor of Library Science and Engineering Librarian at Purdue Uni- versity. She has extensive experience providing instruction for engineering and technology students, including Purdue’s first-year engineering program. Her research interests include finding effective meth- ods for integrating information literacy knowledge into the undergraduate engineering curriculum. Prof. Van Epps has a BA in engineering science from Lafayette College, her MSLS from Catholic University of America, a M.Eng. in Industrial Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and is currently working on her PhD in Engineering Education at Purdue.Dr. Michael Thomas SmithDr. Sorin Adam Matei

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Paper ID #11681Applications of Reflective Thinking Exercises in both Technological Literacyand Standard Engineering CoursesDr. Mani Mina, Iowa State University Mani Mina is with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He is also an active collaborator and participant in the department of Industrial Design. He has been working on better understanding of students’ learning and issues of technological and engineering philosophy and literacy. In particular how such literacy and competency are reflected in curricular and student activities

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

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

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

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

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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

Non-Canonical Canons of Engineering Ethics

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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

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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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

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