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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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Diversity

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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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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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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

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

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whenthe technical communications course became mandatory for engineering majors at The Citadel.Senior design courses or capstone courses are another area where voluminous material can bepresent in a large two-semester project but benefit from a clear and concise written rendering. Aconsiderable amount of effort has gone into elucidating the documents for technical writingassignments to students in the senior design sequence. By the time students reach their senioryear, most can easily follow a format and address each area to some degree. However, thereremains a tendency to include pages of raw data in the report—typically a result of students whostruggle with prioritizing classes of information, or those trying to meet a minimum pagerequirement

Conference Session

TELPhE Division Technical Session 1: Expanding Technological and Engineering Literacies

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel; James Righter, The Citadel; Nathan John Washuta P.E., The Citadel; Kevin Skenes, The Citadel

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design [3], it is difficult to realizewithout adding another year to the existing, rigid course load requirements. Implementing theStrand Model and Freshman Seminars at The Citadel represents an effort to acknowledgedifferent interests.The entire General Education curriculum begins with a Freshman Seminar and correspondingFreshman Writing course. During the student’s senior year, the General Education curriculumculminates in a Capstone project that should be in the student’s major. Between the FreshmanSeminar and Writing Courses, all six outcomes are assessed. Again in the senior year capstone,all six outcomes are assessed. Throughout the General Education curriculum, specific outcomesare assessed in certain courses for depth and reinforcement

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

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tylesha D. Drayton, The Ohio State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

amount of research on the use of design-based principles to enrichengineering education in the form of design projects, design competitions, and capstone courses.Makerspaces are environments in which design takes place, yet, the body of knowledge availableon the role of makerspaces in engineering education as locations to increase technology andengineering literacy seems limited.It is the purpose of this paper to present a preliminary partial literature review of some relevantprior work on the role of makerspaces in engineering education. This review explores a selectfew works on makerspaces within engineering education and synthesizes the findings such asmajor agreements and debates within the research area. As an introductory literature review

Conference Session

Engineering and Technological Literacy: Past and Future

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

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

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technological risks and benefits.In the area of capabilities, majors are expected to reach a much higher level. Majors areexpected to be able to be useful members of project teams which will design, build, and managecomplex technological systems. The curriculum and the related program learning objectives inan engineering or engineering technology degree program can be linked to a specific list ofcapabilities.With experience, our graduates are expected to be able to lead project teams and manage large,complex engineering projects. To do this, they need the capabilities associated with their major.They also need attributes listed here in the areas of knowledge and ways of thinking and acting.Expectations for majors will be different, at least for some

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 3

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Richard Wayne Freeman P.E., U.S. Coast Guard Academy; J. Alex Birdwell, Northwestern University; Emma Tevaarwerk, Northwestern University; Ken Gentry, Northwestern University; Ordel Brown, Northwestern University

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process prior to their capstoneexperience. Over the years, the one course grew to two courses- spreading components of thedesign process over two quarters, and giving the students more responsibility in the second.The courses have a 50-minute lecture and two 80-minute studio sessions weekly. Studentsregister a lecture and a studio section. The studio sections consist of up to 16 students andinclude two instructors: one engineering and one communication faculty. Additionally, studentsform groups of four and are paired with an external client who poses the problem statement.For the first course, there is one project per studio section. For the second course, the majorityof the sections have up to four projects- one for each four-student team.These

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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.

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impact of professionaldevelopment and her role in it. Part of what I think my role is in senior design is to help students transition from being students to being professionals. So toward that end I like to bring in a lot of not just professional level project experience that they would have like open-ended problems and clients that ask for one thing and want another.Although the formal curriculum in capstone design was changed so that professional issues andethics were moved to a separate course, the instructor explained the value of implicitlyintegrating these topics to support students’ professional development and preparation. “Thehabits and dispositions of thought and conduct, the things we come to care about, are shaped byour

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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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, June 12-15, 2005, Portland, OR. Available from: https://peer.asee.org/1465013. Dutson AJ, Todd RH, Magleby SP, Sorensen CD. 1997. A Review of Literature on Teaching Engineering Design through Project‐Oriented Capstone Courses. Journal of Engineering Education. 86(1):17-28. Available from: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.33.3949&rep=rep1&type=pdf14. Kunst BS, Goldberg JR. 2003. Standards Education in Senior Design Courses. IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Magazine. 22(4):114-117.15. Kelly W. 2003. Incorporating Engineering Standards in the Major Design Experience. In: Proceedings of the 110th ASEE Annual Conference, June 22-25, 2003, Nashville, TN. Available from

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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

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

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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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Mousumi Roy P.E., University of Connecticut

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undergraduate students. For example: MIT offersInterdisciplinary degrees in several fields, including: Computation and Cognition; ComputerScience and Molecular Biology; Humanities and engineering and Urban Science and Planningwith Computer Science. In addition, students have the option of picking a Minor from more thana dozen diverse subjects ranging from astronomy, public policy to women’s and gender studiesto supplement their Engineering major [52]. Project based experiential learning should also be encouraged: Many universities requireundergraduate students to complete a capstone project in their senior year. The students pair upwith an industry partner to pursue project-based learning. They are mostly unidisciplinary, with afocus on civil or

Conference Session

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

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share much in common with engineering, particularly in terms ofjob functions following graduation [21] such as project management; in both degree programsgraduates are trained to work with contingent problems. Two other degree programs are worthmentioning in terms of their need to deal with contingent problems and in which practitionersoften operate on heuristics rather than rules: teaching and nursing. Until fairly recently thesewere considered primarily occupations that women went into which associated them with lowerstatus than engineering or management given historical belief systems. However, the wayscontingent knowledge is used to manage highly contextualized problems is similar.An in-depth comparison of the educational methods used by

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

AC 2012-4041: TECHNOLOGY IMPACT: FROM UTOPIA TO WASTE-LANDDr. Robert A. Heard, Carnegie Mellon University Robert Heard is Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Past experience includes 17 years in industry and the past seven years teaching at Carnegie Mellon with particular emphasis on the engineering-based courses, including materials selection and capstone design courses. Page 25.1268.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2012 Technology Impact – From Utopia to WastelandAbstract A course entitled

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

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Ann Shannon, Iowa State University; Sara Kaye Jones; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Physics II Classical Physics II Course Goals • Mathematical and • Conceptual understanding • Technological and technical competency of electromagnetics and engineering literacy 20th Century • Show the human developments side of engineering and how it relates to design Methods of • Regularly Scheduled • Final Project • Final Project Evaluation

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The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

Paper ID #12997Understanding the NSF Transforming Undergraduate Engineering Educa-tion Report – Why are Industry and Academic Pathways toward KnowledgeDevelopment at Odds?Prof. Charles Pezeshki, Washington State University Charles (Chuck) Pezeshki is the Director of the Industrial Design Clinic in the School of MME at Wash- ington State University. The Industrial Design Clinic is the primary capstone vehicle for the School and focuses on industrially sponsored projects with hard deliverables that students must complete for gradua- tion. His research area is in knowledge construction as a function of social/relational

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Defining and Refining Technological and Engineering Literacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Osvaldo Clua, University of Buenos Aires; Maria Feldgen, University of Buenos Aires

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. Received several awards for the actuation in education including INTERTECH, ICECE and IGIP. Director of a project in Digital preservation of heritage and member of projects in Automation. Member of a program for enhancement of computer literacy at the University of Buenos AiresProf. Maria Feldgen, University of Buenos Aires Maria Feldgen is an associate professor and researcher in computer science at the University of Buenos Aires (School of Engineering). Her research interests include Engineering Education, Distributed Sys- tems, and Ubiquitous Computing. Her main research interests are around classroom assessment tech- niques for design capstone courses, heritage digital libraries and sensor networks. She was the

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

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outside theirmajors.One way to promote engineering and liberal arts is to use projects with an innovative andentrepreneurial emphasis.32 Students are challenged by big questions that are open ended andthat allows them to pursue creative solutions, typically in capstone projects. This helps studentsto see their engineering education in the global context.Another way to integrate engineering and liberal arts is to develop minors such as “TechnologyManagement and Policy” that is available at the University of Virginia.33 As an interdisciplinaryminor, it is open to all undergraduates. This program helped engineering students find relevantliberal arts courses that are a vital component of a professional study. If these courses areimportant for a minor

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

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

a class in solid modelingsoftware, as it should give students a better understanding of how this software is to be used andhow engineering practice has changed with the introduction of this software.Joe Sutter’s autobiographical account of the development of the Boeing 747 [23] contains anumber of stories about working with the customers and about the dynamics of his engineeringteam. For example, Sutter’s description of selling the lead customer (Pan American WorldAirlines – Pan Am) on a different layout than what Pan Am’s executives insist that they wantwill help to show students an aspect of engineering work that they are not likely to encountereven in their capstone project classes. Sutter had a very good team but one where some of

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The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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motivate a student to want to be precise in a variety oftopics. It is not without significance that several engineering educators have in recent yearscalled on their colleagues to take note of what happens in primary (elementary) teaching [17].There has also been widespread recognition among engineering educators in the US that theway in which freshman courses are designed has a powerful influence on the motivation ofstudents to remain in engineering [18]. The initial stages of programs inengineering/technological literacy however short or long need to be oriented toward a stageof romance. At the other end of degree programs there is the hope that capstone projectsprovide the generalisation that is necessary. The project method is of course

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Experience in Assessing Technological Literacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Denise M Wilson, University of Washington; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Ryan C. Campbell, University of Washington; Elizabeth Burpee; Mee Joo Kim, University of Washington- Seattle

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) for one class (n=9) and Page 23.1369.5between 2.6 and 3.9 for another class (n=13). Problem areas are shown to vary depending on thegroup, but for both classes as a whole, the lowest mean score occurred for the basic literacy issueindicating the writing’s “closing synthesizes the elements, supports the main idea and finalizesthe paper”.Additional conference papers include Rhoulac and Crenshaw’s 2006 study[15] of 15 technicalreports written by seniors in civil engineering at Howard University, as well as Poltavtchenkoand Tingerthal’s 2011 study[16] of 9 group project reports written by construction managementstudents at a public middle-sized