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- Technological and Engineering Literacy-Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhe) Division Technical Session 3 / Perspectives on Advances in Promoting Technological Literacy
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- 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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- Jayanta Kumar Banerjee, University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez Campus
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face serious problems in their professionalpreparation for not having this face-to-face contact with their instructors and mentors. In this age ofsmartphones and face-books direct human communication is increasingly lacking in every sphere of ourdaily existence. On top of it, this COVID-19 emergency has put new barriers of communication byenforcing ‘educational distancing’. Educational distancing is not just ‘physical distancing’! It includes‘social distancing’ as well on a live college campus. Students in Engineering, those graduating this yearor in the next year, will not have the same preparation as those who graduated a few semesters earlier.For example, the laboratory experiments online do not have the same feelings of “touch and test
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- Interactive Panel on Perspectives and Practical Skills for Men as Advocates for Gender Equity
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- 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Lawrence J. Genalo, Iowa State University; Roger A. Green, North Dakota State University; Beth M Holloway, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Archie L Holmes Jr., University of Virginia; Brian P Kirkmeyer, Miami University; Klod Kokini, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Daniel Lopresti, Lehigh University; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University; Beena Sukumaran, Rowan University
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- Engineering Leadership Development Division, Minorities in Engineering, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering
on the Status of Women at Purdue in recognition of outstanding efforts on behalf of women (2007). In 2008, he received the ASME Johnson and Johnson Consumer Companies Medal, for his ”unwavering commitment to diversity”.Dr. Daniel Lopresti, Lehigh University Daniel Lopresti received his bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Princeton in 1987. After completing his doctorate, he joined the Department of Computer Science at Brown and taught courses ranging from VLSI design to computational aspects of molecular biology and conducted research in parallel computing and VLSI CAD. He went on to help found the Matsushita Information Technology Laboratory in Princeton, and later also
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- Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education
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- 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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technological literacy for a wide audience byteaching courses on engineering topics to non-engineering majors.Such courses for non-engineering majors can take various forms.7-9 Courses can take the form ofa traditional lecture, with the engineering professor lecturing on technical subjects to a largegroup of non-majors. While such a course has the advantage of exposing a large number ofstudents to some science and engineering knowledge, unless well-done, such a course is likely tohave minimal impact on the overall understanding of technological or engineering principles andpractices for most of the students. Courses could also be centered on laboratory experiments,which allow the students to gain hands-on experience with engineering principles
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- Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy
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- 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University
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systems. At Baylor University, he teaches courses in laboratory techniques, fluid mechanics, energy systems, and propulsion systems, as well as freshman engineering. Research interests include renewable energy to include small wind turbine aerodynamics and experimental convective heat transfer as applied to HVAC and gas turbine systems. Page 26.598.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2015 ENCOURAGING STUDENTS TO SEE THE ROLE OF SERVICE COURSES IN THEIR MAJORAbstractMany departments are involved with service courses which support both their programs andother
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- Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 3
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- 2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Joakim Sigurd Wren, Linköping University, Sweden
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engineering.Teaching in the programs are mainly carried out as lectures, lessons, and laboratory sessions. In atypical engineering course, 30−40% of the education is carried out as lectures, 30−40% aslessons and 20−40% as laboratory experiments. In addition, case studies and project works areused in about half of the courses. Some projects are small (down to 15% of the course workload)and some may make up the whole course.In the present study, two courses are of interest. One is a course in Engineering thermodynamicswhich both the ME, DPD and IEM students take; the ME students as the very first course of theprogram, and the PDP and IEM students at the middle of the second year. The other is a bachelor(capstone) project course that the IEM students take as
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- TELPhE Division Technical Session 1: Expanding Technological and Engineering Literacies
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- 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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- Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Sara Kaye Jones; Mani Mina, Iowa State University of Science and Technology
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do their best in beingattentive and receptive to knowledge in the classroom. They also put in an honest effort into theircoursework and seek practical ways to finish what is needed of them.It seems that life as a student is devoted to attending class, completing assignments, and beingsuccessful in the assignments, tests, laboratories, etc. While these are all necessary to help tracklearning and growth, students’ future/success seem to be determined by how the classes are graded,rather than the material learned. Most classes are viewed as competitive spaces, and students needto perform better than their peers in order to be in the upper percentiles of the classes. Studentsbelieve that their grades and success in the classes have a direct
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- Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education
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- 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Maria E. Garlock, Princeton University; Aatish Bhatia, Princeton University; Evelyn Hanna Laffey, Princeton University
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majors, where the students in this case may not have a solid background in coreconcepts related to engineering (e.g. physics) and may even have negative affect towardsengineering or low self-efficacy (i.e., enter with the attitude of ‘I am not sure I can do this’). Forexample, in the first lecture of the course, using online polling, the instructor asks “What do youexpect to be the greatest challenge in this class?”. Partial responses are shown in Figure 1, whereit is seen that “physics” comes up often, as do other anxieties. Although not shown, “math” isanother popular response, as are the laboratory components of the course.Although math and physics does play a role in the class, this is subordinate to learning whatstructural engineers ‘do
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- Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy
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- 2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Dan G. Dimitriu, University of Texas at San Antonio; Mehdi Shadaram P.E., University of Texas, San Antonio
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conference proceedings. He has been either PI or Co-PI for numerous grants and contracts, totaling more than $10 million in the past 15 years. NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, Department of Defense, Department of Education, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Instruments and Lucent Technologies have funded his research projects. He is the recipient of the excellence in engineering research award at the College of Engineering at UTSA in 2010; the best teacher award in the College of Engineering at UTEP in 1994 and NASA monetary award for contribution to the space exploration. He has been the General Chair, Session Chair, TPC Chair, and Panelist in several
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- Developing Technological Literacy in Students
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- 2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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- Johanna Kristiina Naukkarinen, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT; Hanna Niemelä, Lappeenranta-Lahti University of Technology LUT
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, which will be discussed with examples below.Different views on technology and engineeringThere have been many attempts to understand the diversity and nature of young people’sviewpoints on engineering and technology. The Dutch BѐtaMentality [8] project discoveredfour profiles related to adolescents and technology: High Techs, Career Techs, SociallyMinded Generalists, and Non Techs. High Techs enjoy both science and technology. Theyare hands-on people who like practical examples and laboratory work. High Techs like tounderstand how things work and often have technology-related hobbies. Slightly less thanforty percent of the boys and a quarter of the girls fall into this category. Career Techs enjoytechnology as long as it works, but are not
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- Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education
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- 2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- Yuetong Lin, Indiana State University; A. Mehran Shahhosseini, Indiana State University; M. Affan Badar, University of Sharjah & Indiana State University
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learningare collaborative learning, co-operative learning, and problem-based learning. Various studies,from using interactive, hands-on lessons and activities designed to teach research process toundergraduate engineering students 1 , to preparing manufacturing engineering students throughcompetitions, projects sponsored by industry, capstone projects, laboratory exercises or projectssimulating real-life scenarios 2 , have shown that active learning increases student performance inSTEM subjects.Critical thinking, identified by The U. S. Department of Labor as the raw material of a number ofkey workplace skills such as problem solving, decision making, organizational planning, and riskmanagement, is highly coveted by employers of engineering graduates
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- TELPhE Division Technical Session 2: The Broadening Face of Engineering Education
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- 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access
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- Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder
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laboratory studies, people expressmore empathy for one victim of a tragedy than they do for eight, ten, or hundreds.” (p. 9). Thus,the sheer scale of traditional engineering work with sometimes rare interactions with theindividuals most impacted may make empathy (and perhaps by extension kindness) moredifficult among engineering in comparison to professions like medicine (e.g., doctors meetingwith single patients). Thus, the notion of ‘care’ may be more applicable to the engineeringprofession in the context of this broader impact of our work, while kindness is more relevant inengineering education as we interact with individual students.The hidden curriculum through engineering courses that do not seem to embody kindness orcaring might convey to
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- Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams
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- 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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- 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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- 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
University. Adrienne’s research interests include electrokinetics, predominantly di-electrophoretic characterizations of cells, and the development of biomedical microdevices. She earned aNSF CAREER award and was nominated for Michigan Professor of the Year in 2014. Research within herMedical micro-Device Engineering Research Laboratory (M.D. – ERL) also inspires the development ofDesktop Experiment Modules (DEMos) for use in chemical engineering classrooms or as outreach activi-ties in area schools (see www.mderl.org). Adrienne is currently co-Chair of ASEE’s Diversity Committeeand PIC I Chair; she has previously served on WIED, ChED, and NEE leadership teams and contributedto 37 ASEE conference proceedings articles