Conference Session

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

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Joakim Sigurd Wren, Linköping University, Sweden

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Diversity

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

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

Conference Session

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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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

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

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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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

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