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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John R. Reisel, P.E., University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

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takemore engineering courses because it is their main interest and will help prepare them for theirplanned career. Requiring such students to take technical electives is not an issue, as these arecourses that the students want to take. But many students do not fit into this category. Startingin 2021, the Mechanical Engineering Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hasallowed students to take free electives rather than technical electives offered by the program [6].As the results in Table 1 show, this led to a very large decrease in the number of studentsregistering for the technical electives offered by the department. Instead, students generally (butnot exclusively) were choosing to take simpler courses from other disciplines to

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Steffen Peuker, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo

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,making education more accessible, efficient, and effective for students, like the introduction ofthe calculator. However, there are concerns that generative AI tools can also be misused and leadto unethical behavior. For example, students could use these tools to plagiarize essays, cheat onassignments and exams, and thereby devalue the learning experience for themselves and others.A mixed-method survey was developed to answer the following research questions:1. How many first-year ME students use generative artificial intelligence tools?2. How do first-year mechanical engineering students utilize generative artificial intelligencetools?3. What are the perceptions of first-year mechanical engineering students about the utilization ofgenerative

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Chun Kit Chui, University of Hong Kong; LEI YANG, The University of Hong Kong; Ben Kao, University of Hong Kong

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of this team was toidentify core technical competencies and create learning materials in generative AI for the2,800 undergraduate users of the Inno Wing. Additionally, these pioneering interns undertook Figure 1. The walkthrough hosted in the podcast studio, which has been upgraded with high-performance computing facilities to power the computationally extensive gen-AI software.initiatives to identify and address real-life problems. The experiences, results, and findingsfrom these real-life projects are being shared with the student community through knowledgeexchange workshops and seminars. For the 2023/24 academic year, the team consists of ninestudent interns.To ensure a comprehensive approach, the team actively engaged

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Suzanne Keilson, Loyola University, Maryland

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humankind unique, both individually and as a species, remains unclear. Advances in neuroscience and computer science, as well as ethics, generate questions about the nature of intelligence, consciousness, and personhood and the rights and protections associated with being human. In this course students tackle classic readings from Descartes to modern ruminations on artificial intelligence, examine our relation to our creations and pets, and the way our various identities affect how our personhood is perceived and protected.Some basic information from the course syllabus is described below.Broad Topics covered 1. Basic neuroscience 2. Distinctions between humans and nonhumans 3. Emotional connection and dependencies between

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tyler Thomas Procko, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University ; Omar Ochoa, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University; Christina Frederick, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

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continues,drawing a distinct corollary with the cheating rampant in online chess communities, saying that: “If we can learnanything from online chess, then the message is very clear: online cheating will only get much worse and schools anduniversities will have their first-hand experience in Fall 2020. While online chess websites are private ventures and canban any player for any reason, schools and universities will have a much more difficult task to provide clear evidence Fig. 1 Generalization of the comparison between historical cheating and modern, technology-enabled cheatingthat proves students’ cheating” [14]. They go on to state that cheating in online

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Sayyad Zahid Qamar, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; Omar S. Al Abri, Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; Moosa Salim Al Kharusi; Sayyad Basim Qamar, Texas A&M University

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principles are drivers for sustainable design, athought process. Sustainable engineering is the technical implementation of these design ideas.This transformation (abstract idea to concrete product) is often a complex process, requiringintermittent design changes and adaptations. Then comes the implementation or development ofrelevant technologies that generate the processes and the products. Principles of sustainable designand engineering pass through this portal, affecting people’s lifestyle and creating changes insociety, sometimes leading to new global trends [2]. Figure-2 How sustainability and technology affect human lifestylesSustainable, Renewable, Recyclable?With the continuing problems of deforestation, greenhouse emissions

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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technological literacy too which Kathryn Neeley drewthe division’s attention in her 2017 review of its development [4]. The idea of such a mechanism is not new and is to be found in Newman’s 1852 lectures on“The Idea of a University”, where it is called a ‘science of sciences’, and in the representationof technology that I presented at the 2010 meeting of TELPhE shown in exhibit 1. Itsintention was to demonstrate that a particular power of mind is required to understand thetechnological process as a whole. Arriving at that power of mind requires enlargementbeyond that which is purely technical. Such a mind is able to look at an activity or objectfrom many different angles, and this requires a particular set of skills in the handling ofmulti

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Tatiana V. Goris, Pittsburg State University; Zeshan Ahmad Shah, Pittsburg State University

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Diversity

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interesting experience”. Data also indicates that visual conversations were more popular comparing to texting. This is an important factor for a productive collaboration, specifically when team members are unfamiliar to each other. Figure 1. Comparison of student responses: video versus text conversations Summarizing results of the final survey it should be pointed that: • In general, students provided positive feedbacks about cross cultural collaborations (from both sides, the U.S. and Kirgizstan); • The concept of a global partnership with an ability to complete common tasks from different countries (across the Globe) was new for many of them; • There were frequent complains on significant time zone

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Erin Bosarge, University of South Alabama

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—teachers, students, curriculum developers, and AIexperts—we need to adhere to a structured approach to AI literacy, which leads us to theAI4K12 initiative, which sought to reveal AI's complexities for educational purposes through its"5 Big Ideas in AI."2.3 AI4K12's Five Big IdeasThe "5 Big Ideas in AI" framework, proposed by the AI4K12 initiative, serves as a foundationalguide to distill the core concepts of AI into teachable and understandable segments. Thisframework facilitates a more accessible understanding of AI for students and educators,addressing the critical need for comprehensive AI literacy beyond mere technical knowledge [2].The AI4K12 framework encompass the following AI concepts: 1. Perception: How AI systems interpret the

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Janna Rosales, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; Amit Sundly, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; Svetlana Barkanova, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada; Cecilia Moloney, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada

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perspective of the student, especially high school students, the problem is that thestudent needs to make a fairly significant life decision, “one that potentially frames aspects oftheir future” [1], and often must do so based mainly on their prior experience and knowledge,and often without experience of university-level studies to help them to make the decision. Theproblem of choice between engineering and the physical sciences is compounded by the entrancerequirements from high school being similar for both fields since engineering and the physicalsciences are similarly grounded in the mathematical, computational, and natural sciences. Within the broad literature that discusses many aspects of university education in STEMfields (science

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 1

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Aditi Verma, University of Michigan; Kellie Grasman, University of Michigan; Katie Snyder, University of Michigan; Sara Elizabeth Eskandari

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. She holds graduate degrees in engineering and business administration from the University of Michigan, and began teDr. Katie Snyder, University of Michigan Dr. Snyder is a lecturer for the Program in Technical Communication at the University of Michigan. She teaches design, ethics, and technical communication as social justice to students in the College of Engineering.Sara Elizabeth Eskandari ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024Connecting Campus and Community: applying virtual reality technologies to facilitate energy justice and emerging technology literacy Aditi Verma, Sara Eskandari, Kellie Grasman, Katie SnyderIntroductionThe history of energy technology

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Robinson, Saint Vincent College

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way of categorizing different stages in the process ofeducation. Heywood [1] describes this model as a theory of motivation. Whitehead conceived alleducation as following three stages: romance, precision, and generalization. He believed thesephases must be followed in both large and small cycles throughout an education. Romance is“the stage of first apprehension… romantic emotion is essentially the excitement consequent onthe transition from bare facts to first realisations of the import of their unexplored relationships”[8, p. 28]. The student then advances to precision which “proceeds by forcing on the students’acceptance a given way of analysing the facts, bit by bit” [8, p. 29]. The final stage ofgeneralization is “a return to romanticism

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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alternativeto, if not necessary education for the generalists that are required in the work force or theeducation that is required to live in a technological society.Key words: Capability, Change, Civil servants, Contingent, Engineering literacy, Enterpriselearning, Organisational structure, Short termism, System(s), Technological literacy,Thinking (different ways of), Vaccine Task Force (VTF)1. IntroductionRecent studies of the Grenfell Fire [1] and Boeing 737Max [2] tragedies to determine thenature of technological literacy as a general educational initiative have showed thatsomething more than a requirement for technical understanding (engineering literacy) isinvolved; in particular, an understanding of people behaviour in organisations. As such

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Timothy Aaron Wood P.E., The Citadel

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practices and learning activities. Ideally,every engineering student would develop not only technical competence within their disciplines,but also the self-directed lifelong learning skills and attitudes required for success in the future,regardless of their initial level of preparation for the collegiate learning environment.References[1] J. T. Gatto, Weapons of mass instruction: a schoolteacher’s journey through the dark world of compulsory schooling. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2009.[2] P. van der Ploeg, “Dewey and Citizenship Education: Schooling as Democratic Practice,” 2019. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-67905-1_20-1.[3] J. David, “How the American Education System Suppresses Critical Thinking,” Observer, Jan. 11

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Michael Robinson, Saint Vincent College

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classical andmodern philosophy will be related to undergraduate engineering laboratories. Plato’s view oflearning as recollection will be used to suggest stages of understanding in a laboratory. JohnHenry Newman’s concept of real assent will be presented as a key purpose for the laboratory.Alfred North Whitehead’s rhythm of education will provide guidance on where laboratoriesnaturally fit in the engineering curriculum. Taken together, these sources will develop an answerto the question: what is the role of the laboratory in engineering education?Aims of Experimentation in Science and Engineering EducationFeisel and Rosa observe in their seminal paper on engineering laboratories that “while thereseems to be general agreement that laboratories are

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Mohamed Fadlelmula, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Nayef Alyafei, Texas A&M University at Qatar; Albertus Retnanto, Texas A&M University at Qatar

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feedback and selects the best three presenters to receive awards. Finally, students attend a mock interview that is conducted by experts from SLB company, which boosts their confidence and provides them with invaluable experience in real job interviews before graduation. Thus, the enrichment program helps the PETE students develop their technical writing, presentation, communication, and teamwork skills by the time of their graduation, which smooths their transition from students to industry professionals and distinguishes them from other fresh graduates. Table 1 shows the enrichment program that has been developed in collaboration with the Office of Advancement and the Writing Center at TAMUQ. The table shows the workshops, whether they are

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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

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technological literacy. ASEE was seen as theappropriate base for this focal point and thus, the ASEE Technological Literacy ConstituentCommittee (TLCC) was formed June 2005 [1].Drawing heavily on Technically Speaking, and the 2005NSF-sponsored workshop, Krupczak,Pearson, and Ollis [5] and Pearson and Ollis [6] presented papers to the American Society forEngineering Education (ASEE) at its 2006 Annual Meeting defining the concept of technologicaland engineering literacy, the beginning initiatives to promote it, and the benefits to accrue to theindividual and society through it, thus forming the foundation for much of the subsequentinterest, research, and promotion of regarding the importance and criticality of these literacieswithin the overall

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Haley Williams, University of California, Berkeley; Denia Djokic, University of Michigan

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and responsibilities via presentation of technical course material. Overall, this casestudy investigates nuclear engineering for its curricula-embedded epistemological foundationsand offers reflections on the relevance of beliefs about knowledge to engineering problemsolving.2 Introduction The term “engineering”, linked in origin to both “ingenious” and “engine”, describes aprofession linked to the virtues of originality and innovation as well as the artifacts and processesdeveloped to enhance human flourishing. We take these elements (production of tools, originalinnovation, and the commitment to human welfare) to be foundational (though incomplete) dueto their ubiquity and use this as a starting point for our analysis [1], [2

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Paul Marlowe; Stephen T. Frezza, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Joanne Storm Gallagher, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Marita Anne O'Brien, Franciscan University of Steubenville; Sabrina J. Bierstetel, Franciscan University of Steubenville

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, examining the extent to which each item contributes to the total score on the test, and thereby also determining if any items do not meaningfully contribute to the scale. 2) A test-retest correlation will compare data taken approximately 12 weeks apart. Overall test scores from these two sessions will be compared via a Pearson’s Product Moment Correlation to examine for consistency in responding.Validity Measures: 1) Convergent Validity will be examined with a Pearson Product Moment Correlation, examining test scores on this newly derived instrument with the CD- RISC, an established measure of resilience [13] . 2) Criterion Validity will be correlated through a Pearson Product Moment Correlation examining

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Milana Hayley Grozic, University of Calgary; The University of British Columbia; Emily Ann Marasco, University of Calgary

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technology-lifebalance in an increasingly technological and digital media-focused environment.Keywords: technology-life balance, physiological and psychological health, technology use,undergraduate engineeringMotivationIn the rapidly evolving landscape of the 21st century, the integration of digital technology intoour daily lives has reached unprecedented levels, with further acceleration generated by theCOVID-19 pandemic [1]. The resulting surge in technology usage popularized a critical field ofresearch: technology-life balance. Technology-life balance, also referred to as digital wellness ordigital health, can be defined as the pursuit of an intentional and healthy relationship withtechnology and digital media. This emerging discipline seeks to

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 3

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Kathryn A. Neeley, University of Virginia; William J Davis, University of Virginia; Bryn Elizabeth Seabrook, University of Virginia; Joshua Earle, University of Virginia

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bounds, to look beyond its borders bothfor problems and solutions” [15] is an important pedagogical goal. She usefully distinguishesbetween technical management (the management of technical projects) and “administrativeleadership in diverse situations” [15].She elaborates on the distinction to illuminate the ways in which the dominant paradigms inscientific and engineering education are conducive to the generation of new knowledge but arenot useful for innovation and management. In her account, administrative leadership entails “theability to work quickly on a variety of discontinuous activities that are brief in nature and requireless reflective thought”; she contrasts this with the technical management paradigm of “working

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Technical Session 2

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2023 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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R. Alan Cheville, Bucknell University; Sarah Appelhans, Bucknell University; Stewart Thomas, Bucknell University; Rebecca Thomas, Bucknell University

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that maintains and modifies the criteria for engineering, computer science, and engineeringtechnology program accreditation. ABET has an annual revenue of almost $13M (2020 IRS filing) fromaccreditation fees, but is structured as a primarily volunteer organization with individuals donating theirtime to serve as the evaluators of degree programs or on an oversight board with representatives frommany engineering societies b. ABET was initially established in 1932 as the Engineers’ Council forProfessional Development and renamed to ABET in 1980. Based on pressure from large engineeringindustries who saw that engineering graduates lacked some characteristics needed to thrive in changingworkplaces [1], around the year 2000 ABET significantly

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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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2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Stephen T. Frezza, Gannon University; Justin Michael Greenly, Franciscan University of Steubenville

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which the agent becomesmore intelligent in performance rather than routinized. [1]The missing component in this discussion is the understanding of ‘good’, of the essentialconnection to the ethic desired in E/C education. This includes identifying the criteria by whichgoodness is established for E/C education in general, and/or the criteria for goodness for an E/Cprogram in particular. Moral goodness has at least two aspects: obligations and virtues. Theobligations of morality arise for us because we live among others of approximately equalstrength and vulnerability1, or perhaps determined by the minimal rules a human communityneeds to enforce for some good. For E/C, this is one means of interpreting the various Codes ofEthics, as obligations

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Technological and Engineering Literacy/Philosophy of Engineering Division (TELPhE) Poster Session

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Asefeh Kardgar, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Anne M Lucietto, Purdue University, West Lafayette ; Jennifer Winikus, Lehigh University

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research interest in engineering education. Her technical expertise is computational intelligence and digital systems. Primary engineering education work includes infusing ethics into computing courses and enhancing transferable skills through active and universal design for learning methods. ©American Society for Engineering Education, 2024 Educational Infographics, A Review PaperAbstractThis paper endeavors to inspire educators and instructional designers to more fully embraceinfographics, leveraging their unique capabilities to enrich the teaching and learning landscape andprepare students for an increasingly visual world. To inspire, this review seeks to offer a coherentframework

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Strategies for Building Engineering Education Research Capabilities

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2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Elizabeth Cady, National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine; Russell Korte, The George Washington University; Karl A Smith, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

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ofresearchers to conduct social science research in education and professional practice. He hasargued for the importance of this area of research, summarized some of the previous research inthis area, and suggested opportunities for expanding the range of future research in engineeringeducation and practice–especially beyond the narrow technical perspectives that dominate highereducation in STEMM disciplines.Learning objectivesParticipants in this special session will: 1. Enhance their familiarity with past approaches to building engineering education research capabilities 2. Identify current practices, and highlight promising practices for building more robust engineering education research capabilities 3. Create future pathways to