Conference Session

TELPhE Division Technical Session 2: The Broadening Face of Engineering Education

Collection

2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

Authors

Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

, statements on inclusion and accessibilityshould be carefully examined to review language, tone, and scope, thereby working to avoid‘othering’ students or making them feel that they don’t belong [63].In fall 2020 I took special care with my syllabus and course policies in my first-year introductoryengineering course. Unlike a normal semester, the course was entirely online. It was intended tobe synchronous, but a few students were across the world making the lecture time challenging. Icarefully explained the purpose of office hours and encouraged students to attend for bothcourse-related and general questions. Due to COVID all office hours were online. Students weregiven an opportunity to earn extra credit the first time they visited me during office

Conference Session

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

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

that the best time for the workshop would be at thebeginning of the fall semester. Some faculty deemed the workshop so relevant to their classesthat they decided to include it in their syllabus for the fall and make it mandatory for theirstudents to participate. One other very important idea suggested by faculty was that theworkshop be recorded and made available online so that it could be available to those notparticipating in the workshop and enabling its content be reused in future courses. This initialplanning step also helped secure the faculty speakers for the campus session.The faculty enthusiasm was so great that the news about the workshop reached multiple officeson campus that were interested in offering event support. The Division

Conference Session

Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Daniel Flath, Macalester College; Diane P Michelfelder, Macalester College

Tagged Topics

Diversity

Tagged Divisions

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

. Since there are fourteen Grand Challenges and just about that many weeks in asemester, in principle this could have worked well. But even though the Grand Challenges arevivid illustrations of how engineering problems and their solutions have social-political-ethicaldimensions, we concluded that it would be a better idea, in terms of discussing engineeredproducts, to start from the ordinary and the mundane, and expand from there. It is here howHenry Petroski’s reflections on the paper clip in Invention by Design and Mark Miodownick’schapter on plastic from Stuff Matters entered the course syllabus. The order of design projectsworked the same centrifugal way, as we started with a “solar hack” project on which studentsworked individually, and