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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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Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Sara Kaye Jones; Mani Mina, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

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and aspects of tech- nological and engineering philosophy and literacy. In particular how such literacy and competency are reflected in curricular and student activities. His interests also include Design and Engineering, the human side of engineering, new ways of teaching engineering in particular Electromagnetism and other classes that are mathematically driven. His research and activities also include on avenues to connect Product Design and Engineering Education in a synergetic way. American c Society for Engineering Education, 2021The challenge: The role of the student in Engineering and TechnologicalLiteracy programs, perspectives, discussions, and

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Technological and Engineering Literacy-Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhe) Division Technical Session 3 / Perspectives on Advances in Promoting Technological Literacy

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Sayyad Zahid Qamar, Sultan Qaboos University; Ramanathan Arunachalam, Sultan Qaboos University; Sayyad Basim Qamar, Texas A&M University

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. Unfortunately,engineering educators generally find it difficult to foster critical thinking among their students.This work-in-progress paper describes a strategy to inculcate critical thinking ability inengineering graduates. Examples are taken from two core courses in the Materials andManufacturing stream.Several critical thinking models were explored, such as Gibbs’ reflective cycle model, Facione’smodel, Kronholm model, and King and Kitchener’s model. Paul and Elder’s (P-E) model forcritical thinking was found to be more suited for engineering. P-E model provides a good basisfor the way in which engineers think, and is especially suited for CT as it targets issues such ascreativity, design development, and professional and ethical issues. Learning

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

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Katherine Robert, University of Denver

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arts toevoke and provoke different ways of knowing in the researcher but also in the audience as they reflect on their ownexperiences in relationship to the research interpretations [60]. Arts-based research methods emerged as a branch ofWestern qualitative research theories and practices [66] that occur along a continuum of art-science, which providesflexibility for using creative practices in the research design, content generation, analysis, and/or interpretation. Ichose these inductive and generative creative practices to produce knowledge that mirrors the processes that Nail[61] and CRM [5] describe. Arts-based methods can be used in tandem with traditional qualitative and quantitativepractices or alone [60], which in my work-in-progress

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Technological and Engineering Literacy-Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhe) Division Technical Session 3 / Perspectives on Advances in Promoting Technological Literacy

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Rachel Shannon, Iowa State University of Science and Technology; Mani Mina, Iowa State University of Science and Technology

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) scholars program, and for WiSE (Women in Science and Engineer- ing). As a Research Assistant, she is gaining valuable experience working with the School of Education at ISU, and with Iowa 4-H at ISU Extension and Outreach for STEM youth programming. Prior to her academic career, she served in the U.S. Navy.Dr. Mani Mina, Iowa State University of Science and Technology Mani Mina is with the department of Industrial Design and Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He has been working on better understanding of students’ learning and aspects of tech- nological and engineering philosophy and literacy. In particular how such literacy and competency are reflected in curricular and student activities

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

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Y. Curtis Wang, California State University, Los Angeles; Jim Kuo, California State University, Los Angeles; He Shen, California State University, Los Angeles; David E. Raymond, California State University, Los Angeles; Mathias J. Brieu, California State University, Los Angeles

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philosophy. 11. Respect your extended network of partners and suppliers by challenging them and helping them improve. 12. Go and see for yourself to thoroughly understand the situation (genchi genbutsu). 13. Make decisions slowly by consensus, thoroughly considering all options; implement decisions rapidly. 14. Become a learning organization through relentless reflection (hansei) and continuous improvement (kaizen).One may notice that the principles do not directly specify a manufacturing process, but rather,they specify guidelines for company culture. There is a focus on three concepts throughout theseprinciples, particularly: respect for people, continuous improvement, and visual control [15].The first principle, in

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

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Corey T. Schimpf, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (CoE)

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implicit. Operationalrules delineate how to play the game, what is illegal or legal actions within a game and overallshape or constrain what actions a player can take. Constituative rules refer to the mathematical orlogical abstractions of the operational rules and may be shared between similar games. Implicitrules are unwritten or agreed upon rules, often in the form of player etiquette. The middle level,experiential system places an emphasis on the immediate experience of one or more game players.Finally, the third level, cultural system, focuses on the larger cultural context in which the gamesexist, the broader themes, discourses, or symbols it connects to and/or is reflected in the gamestructure itself. More accurately we can consider games

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

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado Boulder

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-generationstudents (FGS) Hao [66] states: “I made a conscious effort to talk to my FGS individually during office hours to discuss their progress in class and ask them if I have met their pedagogical needs. Some of the questions I asked were: Is the pace of the class working for them? How are the readings so far? Do they face significant challenges with the assignments? … there are so many unwritten rules of the academy that FGS must learn on their own without the parental or family guidance that their peers typically have, we must serve as mentors to these students.”I tried these approaches in my introductory engineering course for first-year students. The initialassignment in the course asked the students to reflect on their personal

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TELPhE Division Technical Session 1: Expanding Technological and Engineering Literacies

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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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students had assignments to assess their knowledge and mastery. Again, the lower objectiverating was based on the course score in this area, and the low number reflects the number ofstudents who did not meet the requirement to include a quantitative graphic.The instructor and student assessments will rarely be perfect matches, so some margin ofdifference should be expected. The method analyzes data from the instructor and studentsseparately. This objective assessment of course outcomes with objective data from embeddedindicators and student assessment of their accomplishment can produce a better evaluation of thecourse and areas for course improvement. Over time, historical data can track the effects ofchanges in a course. A review of each course

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TELPhE Division Technical Session 1: Expanding Technological and Engineering Literacies

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John Krupczak Jr, Hope College; A. Mehran Shahhosseini, Indiana State University; Darin R. Stephenson, Hope College

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technological systems and the products of the engineering disciplines. Systems thinking isconceptual and doesn't rely on higher-level mathematics knowledge explicitly. It is one of themost accessible aspects of engineering for non-engineers. Non-engineers can learn the basics ofhow things work.Definition of Systems ThinkingThe applicability of systems thinking across many different fields has led to many variations ofdefinitions of system thinking (some representative examples include [1-5]). While sharing anessential emphasis on the foundational importance of identifying elements and relationshipsbetween those elements, varying definitions reflect the vocabulary and priorities of differentdisciplines. Recent comprehensive definitions aimed at

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TELPhE Division Technical Session 1: Expanding Technological and Engineering Literacies

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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

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Mousumi Roy P.E., University of Connecticut

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disciplines as we havenoted earlier in case of Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Benjamin Franklin and others. In aninterdisciplinary project, participants work jointly to address a common problem applying theirown disciplinary perspective. Transdisciplinarity is achieved when participants from differentfield jointly develop and use a unified and holistic concept, theories and methodology for aunique problem. Multi-, Inter- and Transdisciplinary reflect a continuum of increasing levels ofinvolvement by multiple disciplines [6]. Interdisciplinarity will be used here in a general sense toinclude inter, multi, and transdisciplinarity (see Figure 2). 4

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TELPhE Division Technical Session 1: Expanding Technological and Engineering Literacies

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

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PBL to be effective. Simply giving students a problem to solve in a group does notautomatically confer benefits. Transfer is also aided by reflection, which is often incorporatedinto problem-based learning. In brief it is worth considering that in disciplines like engineeringwhere addressing contingencies in practice is important knowledge matters, but experience maymatter more. Ultimately, we become what we do so techniques such as cases, simulations, andPBL allow students to gain experiences with applying contingent knowledge. If designedeffectively these learning experiences can transfer to practice.Another area that most of these degree programs have in common are some form ofcomprehensive examination before an individual is licensed for