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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Rachel Ann Shannon, Iowa State University; Sara Kaye Jones; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Approach to Empathetic Electrical Engineering CoursesAbstractBackgroundThe ability to empathize provides the basis to understand others, an often-overlookedprofessional skill in engineering curriculums. Studies have shown that engineering students haveless empathy after completing their degree than when they had entered. Having low amounts ofempathy in engineers can result in less concern for public welfare and social considerationsduring the engineering design process.PurposeIn this work, we consider when engineering students are entering an empathetic cycle. Moststudies develop a model based on an educators’ perspective and how empathy is a teachable andlearnable skill. This study examines how engineering students can

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Curriculum Development in Technological Literacy

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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

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Paper ID #30370Complexity, Right Action, and the Engineering CurriculumDr. R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University Alan Cheville studied optoelectronics and ultrafast optics at Rice University, followed by 14 years as a faculty member at Oklahoma State University working on terahertz frequencies and engineering educa- tion. While at Oklahoma State, he developed courses in photonics and engineering design. After serving for two and a half years as a program director in engineering education at the National Science Founda- tion, he took a chair position in electrical engineering at Bucknell University. He is currently

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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Paper ID #11678The Role of Transdisciplinary Studies in the reform of the Engineering Cur-riculum: A Case StudyDr. John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin Dr Heywood is professorial Emeritus of trinity College Dublin-The University of Dublin. he is a Fellow of ASEEE and Life Sen Member IEEE and author of Engineering Education: research and development in Curriculum and Instruction..Dr. Mani Mina, Iowa State University Mani Mina is with the department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Iowa State University. He has been working on better understanding of students’ learning and issues of

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, and a Licentiate and Fellow of the College of Preceptors. His major studies are co-authored book ”Analysing Jobs” about what engineers do at work; three editions of ”Assessment in Higher Education” ; ”Learning, Adaptability and Change; the Challenge for Education and Industry” and the American educational research award winning ”Engineering Education: Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruction” published by IEEE/Wiley. He is a recipient of a Sci- ence, Education and Technology Division Premium of the London IEE for his contribution to engineering education

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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instruction becomes part of instruction; there may be significant advantages to thisshift. It also seems evident that rising costs, changes in the workforce due to technology willinevitably necessitate a re-envisioning of both curriculum and the partnerships universitiesneed to pursue to adapt to these changes. It is unlikely that universities will becomeredundant but they will inevitably change.Bibliography[1] J. H. Newman, The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin. Project Gutenberg, 1852.[2] Committee on Understanding the Engineering Education-Workforce Continuum, “Understanding the Educational and Career Pathways of Engineers,” National Academy Press, Washington

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Experience in Assessing Technological Literacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Claire L. Antaya, Arizona State University; Kristen Parrish PhD, Arizona State University; Elizabeth A Adams P.E., Chandler Gilbert Community College; Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University

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two staff, developing energy efficiency programs, and researching the technical and non-technical barriers to energy efficiency in the buildings sector. She has a background in collaborative design and integrated project delivery. She holds a BS and MS in Civil Engineering from the University of Michigan and a PhD in Civil Engineering from UC Berkeley.Elizabeth A AdamsProf. Amy E. Landis, Arizona State University Page 23.570.1 c American Society for Engineering Education, 2013 Experiential Learning in the Civil Engineering Curriculum: Collaborations between

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Aspects of Engineering Literacy and Community and Industry Engagement

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Catherine Garner, West Virginia University; Karen E Rambo-Hernandez, West Virginia University ; Afrin Naz, West Virginia University Inst. of Tech.; Mingyu Lu, West Virginia University Institute of Technology

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learning in their classrooms. The threeitems asked teachers to rate their confidence in their ability to “incorporate project-basedlearning into at least one instructional unit,” “write lesson plans that incorporate project-basedlearning,” and “use project-based learning within my existing curriculum (instead of in additionto my curriculum)” on a scale of 1-5. Teachers were also asked to rate their confidence inassessing project based learning on the same scale of 1-5 for five statements. Examples of itemsinclude rating their confidence to “measure student learning against specific objectives,” “createassessments that accurately measure student learning,” and “create assessments that providestudents useful information about their learning.” A

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Interactive Panel on Improving the Experiences of Marginalized Students on Engineering Design Teams

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Lorelle A Meadows, Michigan Technological University; Denise Sekaquaptewa, University of Michigan; Marie C Paretti, Virginia Tech; Alice L. Pawley, Purdue University, West Lafayette; Shawn S. Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus; Debbie Chachra, Olin College of Engineering; Adrienne Minerick, Michigan Technological University

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Design in Engineering Education, Electrical and Computer, Engineering Libraries, First-Year Programs, Liberal Education/Engineering & Society, Minorities in Engineering, Student, Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering, Women in Engineering

apawley@purdue.edu.Dr. Shawn S Jordan, Arizona State University, Polytechnic campus SHAWN JORDAN, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of En- gineering at Arizona State University. He teaches context-centered electrical engineering and embedded systems design courses, and studies the use of context in both K-12 and undergraduate engineering design education. He received his Ph.D. in Engineering Education (2010) and M.S./B.S. in Electrical and Com- puter Engineering from Purdue University. Dr. Jordan is PI on several NSF-funded projects related to design, including an NSF Early CAREER Award entitled ”CAREER: Engineering Design Across Navajo Culture, Community, and Society” and

Conference Session

New Approaches and Applications to Enhance Technological Literacy - Part I

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Magesh Chandramouli, Purdue University, Calumet (Tech); Gary R. Bertoline, Purdue University, West Lafayette

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facilitates active learning (Princeand Felder, 2006), problem solving (Jonassen, 2002) and project-based learning (Hadim andEsche, 2002), which are encouraged as ways of exciting students. Also, besides facilitating understanding ET literature, this framework facilitatescomprehending ET datasets that involve diverse data formats (or modes) including drawings,spreadsheets, documents, graph sheets, pie charts, and various graphic as well as video formats.This study aims at demonstrating a novel tool of multi-dimensional multi-modal visual analyticframework to visualize the inter-related aspects of ET literature. This is accomplished by Page

Conference Session

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

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Mousumi Roy P.E., University of Connecticut

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across programs betweendifferent engineering disciplines.Multidisciplinary, Interdisciplinarity and Transdisciplinary:As noted in Figure 1, multidisciplinarity is not a new phenomenon while interdisciplinarity is agrowing trend. However, there is a lack of consensus in the literature as to the definition of‘‘interdisciplinarity’’. Stokols et al. [5] provided distinct definitions describing the levels ofunion among different disciplines such as interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary, cross disciplinary,and transdisciplinary science. In a multidisciplinary project, participants work independentlyusing their own discipline-specific knowledge to address a common problem. Relatedly, amultidisciplinary individual has knowledge in two or more academic

Conference Session

Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Yuetong Lin, Indiana State University; A. Mehran Shahhosseini, Indiana State University; M. Affan Badar, University of Sharjah & Indiana State University

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-year graduates ashaving “Excellent” critical thinking skill. Obviously, a more concerted effort must be made incurricula and educational practices to achieve a more measurable outcome to close the skill gap infresh college graduates.Active learning, with its strategy especially in the computer-based classroom 5 , is ideal to blendpertinent curriculum elements to help students develop the highly-sought abilities. The issuesnow become: a) identifying the proper problem to provide context and motivation; and b) findingthe technical vehicle for student engagement and assessment.For the first issue, Kahlen et al. 6 and Benner et al. 7 show that providing accurate and timelydiagnosis for system failures or malfunctions embodies the culmination of

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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should have a basic knowledge of science andmore recently technology. It is generally assumed that it is the responsibility of the system ofschooling to provide for the development of these literacies. In the United States “standards”have been adopted for the subjects of the school curriculum including technology. At aninternational level it is by no means clear what technological literacy is perceived to be orwhat purpose it is to serve. This is not true of the United States where there has been muchdiscussion as Krupczak et al¹ have summarised.The National Academy of Engineering (NEA) undoubtedly influenced some universities totake technological literacy seriously when it published “Technically Speaking: Why allAmericans should know more about

Conference Session

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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Management at Indiana State University. He has published over 45 articles in different journals and conference proceedings. He has served as an investigator for research projects sponsored by National Science Foundation, Ford Motor Company, and the US Army. Before working at Indiana State Univer- sity, he was a faculty in the University of Louisville for 10 years. He also has over four years of industrial experience. He received his D.Eng. degree in Mechanical Engineering from Lamar University (USA) in 1999, M.Sc. in Materials Engineering from Isfahan University of Technology (Iran) in 1991, and B.Sc. in Metallurgical Engineering from Tehran University (Iran) in 1988. He is a member of ASEE, ASME, SAE, and ATMAE

Conference Session

Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering

the skills of design, fabrication, testing and the use of equipment. It must aimto ensure that the producers of technology can be mastered and managed to promote socialand economic well-being” (Item 55, p 69).“An important principle which is enshrined in this report is the idea that the universalcharacter of technology necessarily constitutes a unifying mechanism and levelling forcebetween the social classes within the education system” (Item 55, p 70)Technology is seen tobe something different to science, and a separate programme is required for its development. To this end the French Ministry of Education decided to introduce a curriculum onTechnologie in which the principal teaching method would be the project (Item 54). In orderto

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The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Bill Williams, CEG-IST Universidade de Lisboa; Jose Figueiredo, IST, Universidade de Lisboa

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Journal article/ book chapter Report1911 Taylor, F. W., The Scientific management approach proposed Principles of Scientific for industrial processes Management, New York, NY, USA and London, UK: Harper & Brother1917 Fayol, Industrial management proposals for the H., Administration mining industry industrielle et générale; prévoyance, organisation

Conference Session

Promoting Technological Literacy

Collection

2014 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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toprecision. In today’s jargon the principal strategies induce active learning. It is not confined toanyone method although it is clear that if romance is to be achieved projects (mini and major)and problem based learning will have a major role to play. Some activities will necessarily bestructured by some form of cooperative learning, and the philosophical and legal dimensionsmight be enhanced by debates. It is a matter of curriculum design to choose the most appropriatestrategy for the attainment of the required objective.The core activity of this transdisciplinary approach is engineering for it is engineering thatproduces the technology. A sine qua non of this curriculum is that students should experience theprocess of engineering which is to

Conference Session

Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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assessment) a final writing assignment. So we haveboth qualitative and quantitative assessments.[1] Pre/Post SurveyBecause one of our design projects linked our students with the students from one of TaylorAllen’s classes at Oberlin College, we decided to use the same three pre and post-course surveysthat he had chosen. They were: 1. The Student Understanding of Science and Scientific Inquiry Questionnaire (SUSSI) (Liang et al, 2008). We administered the eight survey questions from the two parts on "social and cultural influence on science" and "imagination and creativity in scientific investigations." 2. The Views on Science-Technology Society Questionnaire (VOSTS) (Aikenhead and Ryan, 1992). We administered five

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Defining and Refining Technological and Engineering Literacy

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2013 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Presentacion Rivera-Reyes, Utah State University - Engineering Education; Oenardi Lawanto, Utah State University; Raymond Edward Boyles, Technology and Engineering Education

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show a project thatgained the approval of the faculty from the manual arts school. The project consists of Page 23.500.4constructing a machine combined with the machines drawings accompanied with the castingmolds [12]. This curriculum approach may suggest what would be called today engineeringtechnology or hands on engineering.John D. Runkle (Washington University), who may have also been inspired by the Russian toolsystem, was agreed with Woodward that engineering education would need hands-on experience[3] . Runkle created curriculum at MIT for the mechanical arts laboratories [3]. Runkle referred tothis educational method by claiming the

Conference Session

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Krupczak Jr., Hope College; John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin; Carl O. Hilgarth, Shawnee State University

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Dublin- The University of Dublin. he is a Fellow of ASEE and Life Fellow of IEEE. he is an Honorary Fellow of the Institution of Engineers Ireland. He has special interest in education for the professions and the role of professions in society. He is author of Engineering Education. Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruction; The Assessment of Learning in Engineering Education; The Human Side of Engineering, and Empowering Professional Teaching in Engineering. He co-authored A Case Study in Curriculum Assessment - GCE Engineering Science (Advanced).Prof. Carl O. Hilgarth, Shawnee State University Carl O. Hilgarth, M.S., is current division chair of the ASEE Technological and Engineering Literacy

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Engineering Literacy: Champions of Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Robert M. Briber, University of Maryland, College Park; Romel D Gomez P.E., University of Maryland, College Park

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and the structural characterization of soft materials. He is a past President of the Neutron Scattering Society of America, a Fellow of the American Physical Society and of the Neutron Scattering Society of America, a recipient of the Department of Commerce Bronze Medal, a University of Maryland Distinguished-Scholar Teacher, a former editor of the Journal of Polymer Science. He teaches the class ”Materials of Civilization”, an I-Series and a University of Maryland Marquee Science and Technology course.Prof. Romel D Gomez P.E., University of Maryland, College Park R.D. Mel Gomez is a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Univesity of Maryland. He teaches engineering design, circuits

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Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kenneth W. Van Treuren, Baylor University

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These experiences can be enhanced byincluding non-engineering majors as part of the design teams. An example occurred one year atthe author’s institution where a traditional art major was included on a senior design team. The Page 26.598.7resultant design changed from a functional, box-like design to one that was more aestheticallypleasing. Engineering students were not practiced enough to look at the project as an expressionof art. While a service course is usually the responsibility of one department, Fisher et al.suggests that close cooperation with the serviced departments is necessary, even to the extentthat faculty outside the department

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jennifer Karlin, South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; Cheryl Allendoerfer, University of Washington; Rebecca A Bates, Minnesota State University, Mankato; Dan Ewert, North Dakota State University; Ronald R Ulseth P.E., Itasca Community College

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international colleagues. He has a broad background in mechanical and electrical engineering, and physiology with specific training and expertise. His work includes mod- eling the cardiovascular system, ventricular assist devices, cardiac physiology, instrumentation systems and leadless cardiac pacing. He help developed and was the inaugural director of a project-based-learning engineering curriculum. He is now involved in discovery-based-learning on multi-disciplinary teams.Mr. Ronald R Ulseth, Itasca Community College Ron Ulseth directs and instructs in the Iron Range Engineering program in Virginia, Minnesota and he teaches in the Itasca Community College engineering program in Grand Rapids, MN. He was instrumental in

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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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Paper ID #7656When Engineering Students Write about Waste Electronics: Trends in howthey Think of Global ImpactsDr. Denise M Wilson, University of Washington Denise Wilson received the B.S. degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford University in 1988 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1989 and 1995, respectively. She also holds an M.Ed. from the University of Washington (2008) and has worked in industry (Applied Materials). She is currently a faculty member with the Electrical Engineering De- partment, University of Washington, Seattle, and she was

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 4

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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suited to the needs of the 21st Century [7]Suzanne Keilson follows the procedures for defining the curriculum often employed bycurriculum designers. These challenge the traditional approach of thinking what contentshould be in a course and finding it difficult to know what to leave out. If Heywood’s modelengineering/technological activity were interpreted in syllabus terms that would be the case.Hence, the argument for a transdisciplinary approach to the topic based and project andproblem based activities. Such activities necessarily involve the student either in theacquisition of new skills or the development of skills already possessed.Keilson in line with this approach argues that by stating the things that a student should needor be able to

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; John Heywood, Trinity College-Dublin

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Paper ID #19530The Philosophical Foundations of Technological and Engineering LiteracyDr. R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University R. Alan Cheville studied optoelectronics and ultrafast optics at Rice University, followed by 14 years as a faculty member at Oklahoma State University working on terahertz frequencies and engineering educa- tion. While at Oklahoma State, he developed courses in photonics and engineering design. After serving for two and a half years as a program director in engineering education at the National Science Founda- tion, he took a chair position in electrical engineering at Bucknell University. He

Conference Session

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

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Paper ID #34229What is Lost When Education is Decomposed into Outcomes? A CriticalLook Across Disciplines.Dr. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University Alan Cheville studied optoelectronics and ultrafast optics at Rice University, followed by 14 years as a faculty member at Oklahoma State University working on terahertz frequencies and engineering educa- tion. While at Oklahoma State, he developed courses in photonics and engineering design. After serving for two and a half years as a program director in engineering education at the National Science Founda- tion, he took a chair position in electrical engineering at Bucknell

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division Technical Session 2

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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CivilEngineers (ASCE) [18], the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) [19], andthe American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) [20]. Other groups have endorsed ideasaround diversity, but not yet situated these responsibilities within their code of ethics (e.g. theNational Society of Professional Engineers, NSPE [21, 22]; American Society of MechanicalEngineers, ASME [23, 24]).If instructors wish to address issues of discrimination or diversity in their courses, there areteaching cases available. The ASCE cases related to discrimination in the workplace and amongfaculty [25-27] may serve as good teaching cases and/or discussion topics. Design-relatedchoices can also impact equity, in ways that are generally unintentional but

Conference Session

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

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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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

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to technologicalliteracy, engineering literacy has received less attention in the literature [3]. While there are fewerexplicit definitions of engineering literacy, Krupzcak et al. [3] have drawn several distinctionsbetween technology and engineering literacy. In particular, they center engineering literacy ondesign and distinguish engineering literacy as focusing on processes, verbs (actions) and having anarrower focus whereas technological literacy focuses on (technology) products, nouns (objects)and has a broader focus. While this is a useful distinction, it is important to note that manytechnological literacy definitions also include abilities or capabilities [29], [30] which reflect morethan product/knowledge and imply processes or

Conference Session

The Philosophy of Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College, Dublin

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attributes such as structure, moisture content, and electrical charge. Thosecan be dealt with at a later time when the students are better able to cope with abstractions. Aspiral curriculum describes an approach to the design of the curriculum that is built on thisidea. Thus, in this example the students meet the concept on several occasions during theschooling and on each occasion more material is added to the understanding of the concept.Graduate student teachers including scientists and engineers find it difficult to defineattributes and values but the evidence is that when they are forced to think about thedominant features of a concept they find it to be an aid in the planning and implementation ofa lesson. It is also evident that part of the

Conference Session

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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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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to argue that because they are by their nature contingent, an informationgiving curriculum based on a collection of traditional disciplines is unlikely to developtechnological competency. The most likely curriculum to develop technological competencywill be problem/project based, accompanied by a study of qualitative engineering. Because itis likely to require students to obtain knowledge independently, and because individuals andorganizations learn, its base should be an active understanding of the nature of learning.Some examples of transdisciplinary programmes are mentioned together with sometransdisciplinary texts, but they err on the side of information giving rather than problemsolving and critical thinking which lie at the heart of