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

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Alyson Grace Eggleston, The Citadel; Robert J. Rabb P.E., The Citadel

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skills.IntroductionPrior to the design and implementation of the technical writing and communication course at TheCitadel, engineering curricula were supported by writing-intensive courses taught in thehumanities, which also contribute to a student’s general education requirements. The writingcourses were developed over 40 years ago as a “one size fits all” answer to a large generaleducation requirement at a small school that produced fewer than 60 engineers annually. Withthe growth of engineering students in the past decade, The Citadel developed the technicalwriting and communication course to meet the demand of engineering faculty and industrypartners. While humanities-based writing courses continue to be included in engineering studentdevelopment, these

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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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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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to learn from each other in courses taught byengineering faculty with technical topics.Table 1 shows the correlation of the General Education Outcomes to the ABET StudentOutcomes. The mapping provided a way to explain to engineering students that the seminarswere groundwork for future engineering work. At the same time, it offered an explanation tonon-engineers that these skills could be transferred between different disciplines, regardless ofseminar topic. ABET Outcome 5 (Teamwork) has no apparent analog to the General EducationOutcomes and is included for completeness. In many of the Freshman Seminars, students dowork together in teams, but this dynamic is not assessed explicitly. Table 1: General Education and ABET

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Exploration of Broad Issues and Promotion of Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Dan G. Dimitriu, San Antonio College

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Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2020 MESA Center Promoting Technical LiteracyAbstractIn 2007, the first MESA Center in Texas opened at our college. After twelve years, there is astory to be told and to be proud of it.MESA, which stands for Mathematics, Engineering, and Science Achievement, is a nationalprogram that originated in California in 1970 [1], [2]. Its purpose is to support educationallydisadvantaged students throughout the education pipeline to excel in math and science so theycan go on to attain degrees in the fields of engineering, science, and mathematics. Due to itsSTEM foundation, the MESA Center

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Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

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2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janet L. Gbur, Case Western Reserve University; Daniela Solomon, Case Western Reserve University

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aretechnical standards, the important role they have for the global economy and what benefitsstudents could have by using standards. To reach these goals, it was necessary that the workshopprovide a general introduction to standards and provide a forum to allow interaction betweenfaculty, students, staff and standards personnel. In order to represent the extensive impact thattechnical standards have on a wide range of industries, it was necessary that a variety of differentstandards bodies and faculty from various disciplines be represented. This wide representationwas necessary to maximize the reach to students of different engineering disciplines.Consequently, the workshop was organized as two panels sessions, each including time forquestions and

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Huiming Fan, East China University of Science and Technology

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for Engineering Education, 2019 Research on the Cultivation of Engineers' General Ability —Base on Empirical Research on IndustryIntroductionEngineering and Technology have played an important role in the economic and socialdevelopment, which are indispensable forces for human beings to seek a higher level of life. Andthe ability of engineers directly determines their related indispensable and competences. From thecurrent point of view, there are still some problems about the ability of engineers [1]. The weak ofgeneral ability is one of the important aspects. According to the existing researches and surveys,current engineers are commonly short of the communication skills, interdisciplinary knowledge,etc. [2][3

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Innovations in Promoting Technological Literacy I

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2012 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Isabel Huff, Smith College; Glenn W. Ellis, Smith College; Lucy McAuliffe, Smith College; Sonia K. Ellis, Smith College; Beth McGinnis-Cavanaugh, Springfield Technical Community College

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; humanizing of meaning; collections and hobbies; revolt and idealism; context change Philosophic Drive for generality; processes; lure of certainty; general schemes (theoretic use of and anomalies; flexibility of theory; search for authority and truth language) Ironic Limits of theory; reflexivity and identity; coalescence; (reflexive use of particularity; radical epistemic doubt language)Table 1: The five phases of understanding and the cognitive tools upon which IE is based.Adapted from [7 and 8].In addition to narrative, Talk to Me uses the cognitive tools and features of mythic and romanticphases of understanding—the phases most relevant to middle school learners

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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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awards are the ECE George Corcoran Award for engineering education, the NSF CAREER award, the Clark School of Engineering Kent Faculty Teaching Award, the CSE Keystone Professorship, the CSE Faculty Service Award, and the Distinguished Alumni in Science and Technology of the University of the Philippines. He has served as an Editor, an Editorial Board Member of the IEEE Transactions on Magnetics, the chair of the Technical Committee, and the General Chair of the Intermag Conference in 2006. c American Society for Engineering Education, 2017 Teaching Engineering in the General Education Program at the University of MarylandAbstractThe University of Maryland

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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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John R. Reisel, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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is important. Krupczak, et al.,1 discuss how the general populace needs tounderstand technology, including its creation and its impact on society. They also differentiatebetween technological literacy and engineering literacy. The American Association for theAdvancement of Science, and the National Academy of Engineering have weighed in on theimportance of everyone being literate with respect to technology and the role of engineering insociety.2,3 Klein and Balmer4 summarize some of the reasons for increasing technologicalliteracy, particularly among students majoring in the liberal arts. In the preface to itstechnological literacy standards, the International Technology Education Association points outthat while society is increasingly

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Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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) Division ofASEE . TELPhE had a series of papers, sessions, and publications to define and clarify ourposition on that are Technological and Engineering Q1: What is Technological Literacy? Q2: What should Technological Literacy classes cover? Q3: What is Engineering Literacy? Q4; What should Engineering Literacy classes cover? Q5: Do you think there is a difference between Technological Literacy and Engineering? Please explain.literacy3-20.Exhibit 1: The questions for this study Views on Technological and Engineering Literacy: Sharing what we think. Thank you for your participation, and for helping our research. Please note: 1. Please share your thoughts and ideas. 2. There are no right or wrong answers. PLEASE DO NOT DO GOOGLE SEARCHES

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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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map to detailthe steps for finding the root cause of the malfunction. In this phase, we are interested in thepercentage accuracy between the student’s map and the expert’s map. This accuracy is not onlythe key indicator for assessment purpose, but also the feedback on which the students rely torevise their maps. The second round sees the re-submission be evaluated for accuracy again, andthe percentage is reported back to the students and recorded for comparison with the first roundresults.Assessment ResultsCase Discussion The first case is a diagnostic task in electrical power generation andtransmission, courtesy of Duke Energy. Figure 1 shows the concept map developed by an expertthat details the diagnosis thought process in a systematic way

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Dimensions of Engineering Literacy and Engineering in General Education

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2017 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John W Blake PE, Austin Peay State University; John Krupczak Jr, Hope College

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programs, catastrophic accidentswith spacecraft, or other problems with our technological infrastructure. People who produce thenews stories, people who propose legislation or sit on juries, and people who vote need to knowsomething about engineering. To be prepared for the future, people need to know somethingabout engineering.State of the ArtIn the 1990s, a push came from the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the NationalAcademy of Engineering (NAE) to make it a national priority to increase the technologicalliteracy of the general public in the United States [4,5,6,7]. In the modern engineered world, aperson needs to know something about engineering to have an understanding of technology.This effort, documented in works such as Technically

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

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differentapproaches to algorithmic evaluation display trends comparable to by-hand assessment by aninstructor. Given that the software used in this work utilized unmodified versions of the basicalgorithms, it might be expected that agreement will improve as the algorithms are modified tobetter detect features most prevalent in diagrams of technological systems. Additional testing isplanned with both engineering students enrolled in an introduction to engineering and non-engineers in a general education engineering literacy course.References: 1. B. Richmond, The ‘Thinking’ in Systems Thinking: Seven Essential Skills. Waltham, MA: Pegasus Communications, 2000. 2. L. B. Sweeney and D. Meadows, The Systems Thinking Playbook. White River Junction

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

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point of view engineers must value both contingent and rational, or necessary,knowledge. This duality of knowledge creates tensions for outcome development andmeasurement in several ways. One is that contingent knowledge is generally less valued inacademic cultures, where math and physics often are the yardsticks by which disciplines measurethemselves. Thus necessity often gets preference when outcomes are defined and measured.Another is that assessing outcomes based on necessity is relatively simple, but the nature ofcontingency makes such outcomes more problematic to assess. This was part of ABET’s shiftfrom (a)-(k) to (1)-(7). However it is the ability to apply contingent reasoning that is valued inthe practice of engineering [21]. Outcome

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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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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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technological competence.The second objective is to use a case study to demonstrate this argument and at the same timeillustrate another role for case studies, namely in curriculum development .1. IntroductionLast year in pursuit of the continuing debate about technological literacy among members ofthe Technological and Engineering Literacy and Philosophy division (TELPhE) of theAmerican Society for Engineering Education (ASEE) it was suggested that TELPhE hadsignificantly failed to consider the needs of the general public, or to consider the differentaudiences that had to be served within that conglomerate in answer to the question, - “Whytechnological literacy and for whom?” Previously it had been shown that it was difficult toget an agreed

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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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students generally tend to communicate what they think theinstructor expects of them, rather than their confusions and doubts. To overcome this facade, webelieve that students need to be more invested in their learning environment. Inquiry-basedlearning with elements of reflective activities in a “safe and brave” environment is one suchplatform where students can communicate their progress and learning and contribute to theclassroom learning environment. The instructor needs to make sure students have avenues, to behonest, share their ideas, critiques, and challenges with the instruction team. It is an approach thatmakes learning current for both the instructor and students. In this work, we discuss the similaritiesand differences between how

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

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Katie Estridge Schneider, Colorado School of Mines; Amy Charlotte Martin P.E., Colorado School of Mines; Terri S. Hogue, Colorado School of Mines

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c American Society for Engineering Education, 2018Evaluation of Research Experience for Teachers (RET) Program Effectiveness asSTEM Professional DevelopmentAbstractThe Colorado School of Mines (CSM) hosts a National Science Foundation funded ResearchExperience for Teachers (RET) program that focuses on STEM content surrounding the water-energy nexus (WE2NG: Water-Energy Nexus for the Next Generation). The objectives of thisprogram are to: 1) impact teacher participants by increasing their knowledge of the water-energynexus and by expanding their perspectives on science, engineering and research, 2) to indirectlyimpact K-12 student’s learning, motivation and engagement by increasing teacher passion andawareness and by providing mentors for

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

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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than the college professor, the scientist contrasts strikingly with him in aesthetic sensibilities and social skills. Engineers Engineering is a less colorful profession for liberal arts students. The engineer is rated generally intelligent but not nearly so strong in this regard as the scientists. On the other hand, he is considerably, more socially adept than the scientist, though no social lion. The engineer is quite successful and reasonably wealthy, but he gains less satisfaction from his work than the scientist derives from pure research. He is also more conservative, and more likely to be conformist. Except for these important differences, the engineer is almost identical with the scientist.Exhibit 1. Analysis of occupational

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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-based electromagnetism course after this course and they could give inputs on their learning, reflections after taking both courses etc. 3. We are working on different approaches to offer more calculus options (Assignments and Projects) to a select group in the non-calculus based as their project and selected assignments to see how they would retain the knowledge. In few cases in the last few years, those who did the calculus challenge in their projects and extracurricular activities did well and claimed more in-depth learning. Since they did it because they liked it, they generally did better in the process and found more meaning and belonging to the material.References[1]. R. M. Felder, “Rethink

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

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2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John W. Blake P.E., Austin Peay State University

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the problem. This focus is appropriate for the specific material ofthe course, but it misses how and why one gets to the point where the course material is needed.It also misses more general aspects of engineering and technology. Courses with project workmove beyond this to some degree, but are unlikely to succeed in covering some facets oftechnological and engineering literacy (TEL).Many approaches have been documented for teaching technological and engineering literacy [4,5]. A search for technological and engineering literacy in the ASEE PEER database in February,2019, resulted in a list of 60 papers from technical sessions of the Technological and EngineeringLiteracy/Philosophy of Engineering (TELPhE) Division alone; 163 are listed for

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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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purpose of a university and determinewhich functions should be maintained, which modified, and which further developed.Additionally the framework suggests possible alternatives for re-envisioning both curriculumand the partnerships universities need to pursue to adapt to the affordances and challengesposed by information technology.IntroductionIt is widely held that universities serve multiple functions in society. The relative weight ofthe purposes of a university education wax and wane over time as society changes. In 1851publication of Newman’s [1] reflections on the aims of a university education emphasizedthat cultivation of the mind was most important with civic and economic benefits accruedindirectly. Improvement of the individual was the

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

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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the phases, many students used apictorial representation to express their ideas. Additionally, many students went the extra mile todescribe the technical features that they understood. A summary of the indicator words thathelped us assess the inquiry stage of the student may be found in Table 2. From Fig. 3, we alsosee that as the semester progressed many students transitioned from intermediate inquiry stagesto higher cycles of learning and thinking.Table 2: Keywords or indicators highlighting the student’s verbalization in describing systems as they grew through the different inquiry stages Inquiry Stage Initial Indicators: Systems Level Final Indicators: Systems Level Identification General

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

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Neelam Prabhu Gaunkar, Iowa State University; Mani Mina, Iowa State University

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focused on developing aconceptual understanding of electromagnetism “with connected concepts and practical approachand applications that student can relate to”. The second approach represents a moreelectromagnetic literacy approach. By analysing and contrasting these perspectives we try to findappropriate mergers of learning techniques that would be valuable for all students seeking todevelop a strong fundamental understanding of electromagnetism.IntroductionElectromagnetism (EM) courses are historically considered to be one of the most challengingcourses in the electrical engineering curriculum [1-14]. Some students feel the course ischallenging due to a large disconnect between abstract concepts and real-life/engineeringexperiences [2-4

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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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(TUEE) effort, representatives from industry rated systems thinking as ahigh priority for engineering education [1]. Even more noteworthy, this industry survey ratedsystems knowledge as more critical than “understanding of design.” According to these industryrespondents, “problems and challenges are generally system problems.” Industry representativesalso advocated for introducing students to systems concepts early in undergraduate engineeringprograms [1].Systems thinking also provides a means to develop the technological and engineering literacy ofnon-engineers. In Technically Speaking: Why all Americans need to know more abouttechnology [2], the NAE advocated a wider understanding of technology broadly defined as theproducts of all the

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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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Katherine Robert, University of Denver

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which the images came. Methods wise, Ioscillated back and forth [61] between the literature, news and popular websites related to the film, and the specificimages/content related to the movie and characters that emerged through my searches.Fig. 1. Girls dressed as Hidden Figures film characters from online source.The social media image collection site Pinterest provided an enormous quantity of film related images andadditional related search terms. I followed an algorithm generated search prompt of “Hidden Figures aesthetic”because of my use of aesthetic arts-based methods to uncover hidden relationships. I sensed these images werecentered on the historical era in the film, again mostly focused on the clothing and fashion in the film. Other

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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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Carl O. Hilgarth, Shawnee State University

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instructing courses in industrial management, financial management, computer technology, and environmental technology, as well as leading seminars in the uni- versity’s general education program. Prior to academia, Mr. Hilgarth was employed as as engineer in the aerospace industry in laboratory and flight test development, facilities management, and as a manager in quality assurance. He has contributed papers on management, ground-test laboratory and flight test facilities, and ethics to several technical and professional organizations. In education, he has served as a consultant and curriculum developer to the Ohio Board of Higher Education and the Ohio Department of Education. He holds an M.S. in engineering management

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

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behind the need to ask “why engineeringliteracy?” and outline some directions that might be taken in the future toward debating andclarifying the aims of engineering literacy.Legacy of Technically SpeakingIn 2002 the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) published Technically Speaking: Why AllAmericans Need to Know More about Technology. [1]” The document was significant inobtaining recognition for the role of engineering in developing modern technology and clarifyingthat creating technological systems was not the domain of scientists. After the release ofTechnically Speaking a workshop was held at the National Academy to define the research issuesrelated to the broader understanding of engineering and technology by the general public [2].That

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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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recently discussions in theTechnological Literacy Division of the American Society for Engineering Education have ledto the complementary promotion of the idea of engineering literacy. Technology consideredto be the product that results from the process of engineering. Unfortunately, there is littleagreement on what concepts and practices should be taught, or to whom they should betaught, or indeed the definitions themselves. Hence the symposium that is the subject of thiscommentary [1]. Cui Bono engineering and technological literacy?Krawitz’s wrote in response to the anchoring article that part of “ ‘liberal education’ beyondthe student’s major is delivered through the General Education portion of the curriculum, aseries of elective courses with

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

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Joakim Sigurd Wren, Linköping University, Sweden

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described above is mandatory as priorknowledge.The course has 4 overall course aims: 1. Subject specific (e.g. application of methods, analysisand evaluation of technical solutions in energy engineering), 2. Individual and professional (e.g.planning), 3. Group work and communication (e.g. professional oral and written communication),and finally 4. Engineering application (e.g. create technical solutions). Aims 1 and 4 complementeach other and are the main focus during the project. Aims 2 and 3 can be seen as supportive tothe process of solving the engineering problem (e.g. planning and report writing).The project work has been to design, build and test a portable solar heating system. All groupshave got a pump and about 1 square meter of high

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

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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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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engineering students at Northwestern University are required to go through Design-Thinkingand Communication (DTC), a two-term sequence to learn the human-centered design process.This design process follows six principle phases: 1. Define the problem 2. Conduct primary and secondary research 3. Identifying needs and specifications 4. Generate potential solutions 5. Evaluate, build, and test alternatives 6. Create an initial prototype to demonstrate the design solution.It is emphasized that this approach is not linear and requires frequent iteration of the phases inorder to develop a successful and meaningful solution.DTC emulates the iterative nature of this approach by following the same process through eachquarter of the course

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

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2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin; Michael Patrick Lyons, Michael P. Lyons & Associates

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professional engineering areconsidered and questions the public should seek answers to are listed. From the perspectivesof technological literacy two issues are considered, namely fake news, and the role ofprejudice in public perceptions of what happened.It is concluded that a radically different approach to the design of the curriculum will berequired if the public are to become engaged in engineering and technological literacy.IntroductionIn 2017 the TELPHE division of ASEE published the fourth edition in its series of handbooksin which the authors responded to a paper by Heywood in which he discussed the problemsfacing those who would establish a community of scholarship in technological andengineering literacy [1]. This commentary may be regarded