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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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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering
. 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
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- Experience in Assessing Technological Literacy
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- 2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition
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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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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering
) 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