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

Conference Session

Developing Technological Literacy in Students

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2020 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access

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Justin Lee Clough, University of Southern California; Patricia Chaffey, University of Southern California; Gautam Salhotra, University of Southern California; Colin G. Cess, University of Southern California; Rey Pocius, University of Southern California; Katie Mills, University of Southern California

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eagerness to program the robots. Besidesbeing exposed to advanced mathematical material, the teachers were able to use this to bridge intoother academic areas. To help their students learn to identify angles, teachers used sentence wordgaps (shown in Figure 2), a technique commonly used in teaching language arts.Figure 2: A first-grade teacher at an elementary school, using the sentence word gaps to teach earlyelementary students the angles they need to program the direction of the robots.BOTS consisted of a series of progressive PD sessions held for three hours on a Saturday morningalmost monthly throughout the academic year. Each session built upon the previous and gave theteachers the opportunity to reflect and receive feedback on their

Conference Session

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

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Angela R. Bielefeldt, University of Colorado, Boulder

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in a style that should be interesting and accessible tostudents and is not overly long. However, it is somewhat dated. The paper could form the basisfor in-class discussion or a written reflection if an instructor generated appropriate prompts.There are also more detailed case studies related to privacy that would be good vehicles forinstruction, including Google Street View [40, 41] and “optimizing schools” [42]. These cases donot explicitly discuss a human rights perspective, so this framing would need to be added by theinstructor.Right to Property – Article 17Article 17 relates to the right to own and not “be arbitrarily deprived of [ ] property” [1]. Thisrelates to civil engineering and the use of eminent domain for projects, which is of

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2016 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Grunert, Virginia Tech; Stephanie G. Adams, Virginia Tech

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and Exposition,Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.246415 Riley, Donna. Engineering and social justice. Chapter 2 “Mindsets in Engineering” Synthesis Lectures onEngineers, Technology, and Society 3.1 (2008): 33-45.6 Bandura, Albert. (1977). “Self-efficacy: Toward a unifying theory of behavioral change.” Psychological Review,Vol 84(2), Mar 1977, 191-215.Acknowledgment: This material is based upon work supported, in part, by the National ScienceFoundation, under grant 1256529. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendationsexpressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views ofthe National Science Foundation.For more on content of the course, see Riley, D., Grunert, J., Jalali, Y., Adams, S.G

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

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

John Heywood, Trinity College Dublin

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technological literacy. 12.Tobias, Sheila Comment on John Heywood’s paper: Technological literacy and for whom?13.Trevelyan, James and Bill Williams. Literacies of entrepreneurship and value creation. 14 –16.Cheville, Alan. Technological literacy without proficiency is not possible. 17 – 18.Krupczak, John. Unfinished business for the ASEE TelPhe Division and other engineeringeducators 19.Siller, Tom. The purpose of technological and engineering literacy. 20 – 21.Mina, Mani. Why and for whom as historical reflection. 22 – 23.Drew, David. E. Moving the needle from literacy to knowledge. 24 – 25.Sychov, Sergev. V. Technological literacy and global society. 26.[2] K. Richmond Culture and General Education. A Survey. London. Methuen, 1963[3] B. Hirsch

Conference Session

Promoting Engineering and Technological Literacy

Collection

2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

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Jonathan Grunert, Virginia Tech; Peter Doolittle, Virginia Tech; Stephanie G. Adams, Virginia Tech

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engineering projectsentail risk—a risk that cannot always be anticipated. Perhaps most importantly, this citizenunderstands that engineering is not an a-political investment, and that not all engineers aredisinterested. Engineering reflects the values and culture of society, and the engineer is notimmune to his or her cultural situation.The history and evolution of engineering is another foray into the relationships between societyand engineering. Looking at the change of engineering over time is valuable, as it showcases thedevelopment of certain social aspects of engineering. Perhaps engineering historians explore thedevelopment and transformation of engineering as a profession, or perhaps they develop acomparative study of a variety of engineering

Conference Session

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

Collection

2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Tejita Rajbhandari, Gannon University; Mark Blair, Gannon University

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disastrous results and stated that a small elite group of people with special intellectualabilities are the only ones that should be trusted with knowledge. “I do not, however, think the attempt to tell mankind of these matters a good thing except in the case of some few who are capable of discovering the truth for themselves with a little guidance. In the case of the rest to do so would excite in some in a thoroughly offensive fashion, in others certain lofty and vain hopes as if they had acquired some awesome lore.” Plato Letter VII, 341d- 342aPlato’s assertions here reflect the supercilious attitude as he seems to indicate that “the commonperson cannot assimilate sensational information without fear or being given to