Conference Session

Technological Literacy for Undergraduate Students

Collection

2011 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak, Hope College; Lauren Aprill

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

bachelor or master’s engineering degrees started higher education ina community college. The trend is higher in some states such as California for which more than48% of graduates with science or engineering degrees started at a community college18. Page 22.493.3Conditions in two year colleges present challenges for both students and faculty. Engineeringprograms in two year colleges are typically small. These programs often have only one or twofaculty members who teach courses running the gamut of the engineering curriculum. Facultyteaching loads are high compared to other areas of higher education. Access to facilities such aslaboratories is

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

students at Macalester College as one contributionto countering this blind spot. In developing this course, our primary interest was to give studentsat an early stage in their academic experience an introduction to engineering, whether they cameto college with the idea of possibly pursuing a career in engineering or whether they wanted toget a deeper understanding of the influence of engineering on the world in which they live. Forthat reason our orientation in this course was different from the orientation found in Bucciarelli’sand Drew’s proposal for integrating the liberal arts with engineering (2015). As we were notprimarily interested in preparing future engineers, our course was less technically(mathematically) focused. Our course was also

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

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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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

PoliciesKindness in teaching can begin when a faculty member considers the rules for the class,articulated on the syllabus. Being clear about the expectations in the course by providing adetailed syllabus can be viewed as an act of kindness [59]. For example, there was no penalty instudents’ perceptions of instructor support even when fairly restrictive policies were articulated[60]. Inviting students to attend office hours, explaining policies for office hours, and extendingthe potential to meet with students beyond pre-established meeting times are all practices thatembody kindness. Inviting students to meet at self-arranged times may be particularly importantfor non-traditional students who may be juggling a complex array of work, personal health,and

Conference Session

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

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Madeline Polmear, University of Colorado Boulder; Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder; Daniel Knight, University of Colorado, Boulder; Chris Swan, Tufts University; Nathan E. Canney, CYS Structural Engineers Inc.

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

.” immediately upon graduation.”Placement and Structure in Formal CurriculumThe location of ESI in the formal curriculum can send certain messages in the hidden curriculum.ABET mandates that students in accredited programs demonstrate the attainment of ESIoutcomes [18], but departments and programs have significant autonomy over how thoseoutcomes are achieved. Decisions regarding how ESI is taught are the confluence of a range offactors such as curricular space, faculty expertise and teaching load, and university generaleducation requirements. These decisions have implications beyond the course setting in whichstudents receive formal exposure to these topics. An interviewee described his perspective on theimportance of placement in the curriculum. I

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

the Idea of a University [1]. In those discourses, he argued thatinteractions between students outside of the classroom are as important for learning as theclassroom. It is in the discussions they have that learning is accomplished. Newman was notreferring to engineering per se, but to mixed groups of students and he was concerned withlearning for life. The 1998 MIT task force report defined a community as a “…students,faculty members, staff and alumni who have come together on campus for the commonpurposes of developing the qualities that define an educated person” [27]. Such communitieshave the goal not only of learning but of helping the student to learn about himself/herself. Itshould be noted that Tacaks and Chambliss found that not all

Conference Session

Aspects of Engineering Literacy and Community and Industry Engagement

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Lina Trigg, William Mason High School; Heidi A. Diefes-Dux, Purdue University, West Lafayette (College of Engineering)

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Agricultural and Biological Engineering at Purdue University. She is a member of Purdue’s Teaching Academy. Since 1999, she has been a faculty member within the First- Year Engineering Program, teaching and guiding the design of one of the required first-year engineering courses that engages students in open-ended problem solving and design. Her research focuses on the de- velopment, implementation, and assessment of modeling and design activities with authentic engineering contexts. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Characterization of Techniques used in Industry: The Practice of Complex Problem Solving in EngineeringAbstractThere is a gap between academia

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

of the electrical laboratories, they offered aconvenient storage location for these old technologies. Faculty members frequently open thedisplay cases and bring them into the laboratory to demonstrate how they were used perhapsmany decades ago. Then their modern versions are demonstrated and the differences incapabilities discussed. As a result, the students experience a hands-on opportunity to utilizetechnologies from the past. It presents an involvement for students to use old technologies in thelaboratory that they otherwise may never have had expanding their knowledge.Assessment of Student LearningLearning is assessed by performance or how students apply what they have learned. The CourseLearning Outcomes (CLOs) are clearly stated in the

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

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John W. Blake P.E., Austin Peay State University

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

who are not studyingengineering, our majors also need to be considered. For students preparing for careers inengineering, stories can show the human side of engineering and technology along with elementsof engineering practice. They can be used to cover important elements of engineering that do notcome across in courses that emphasize engineering analysis or practical experience with a giventechnology. Stories that can be used to tell non-majors about engineering and technology canalso be used to show our majors why their course material is important and how it can be used.These accounts can be used to put the material in the larger systems context.In a traditional classroom setting, stories are often told in lectures. Faculty are currently

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

an emerging need: “…it will become more and moreessential that schools of engineering pay greater attention to the effect of their work on thepersonal development of the students.” (p. 108). Personal development was not described itoften is today in terms of self-fulfillment, rather it is seen more as a prescriptive process to betterfit people to jobs, thus improving production : “…admission to college is an important divisionof the central problem of education — vocational guidance. If any reasonably trustworthymethod of discovering what work each individual is best fitted for can be found, the otherproblems of education will in large measure solve themselves.” (p. 49). The purpose of the corecurriculum—“all the facts, principles, and

Conference Session

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

Collection

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

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

shaping and supportingstudents’ group-learning experiences.6 While faculty practices are important in all group-learningapproaches, they can be particularly important for supporting under-represented students, whooften experience marginalization in such settings. Both faculty and peers can marginalizeindividual students in a variety of ways, including through assignment of work tasks, validationof work tasks, validation of ideas or perspectives, and the nature of the group task itself.First, at the onset of an activity, task assignment biases can often result from unconsciousexpectations about who may be more (or less) suited to certain tasks.7, 8 While each team isdifferent, with a different set of identities and personalities, there is also