Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

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