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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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for public education is “burning the buildings and hanging the professors”[15]. From its inception, ASEE has been advocating for the same basic teaching reforms of theRousseau/Dewey pedogeological ideology, yet “there is nothing new under the sun” [16]. Whenengineering educators are tempted to blame to K-12 education, in a confused exercise ofHegelian synthesis, more and more of ASEE’s policy recommendations reflect the failingpedagogical and sociological ideologies adopted by that same K-12 system [17].Perhaps, the educational reforms of the last century have inverted the problem. More and moreemphasis has been placed on the teaching innovation. Western culture since the world wars hasvalued Rousseau’s “noble savage” and Wordsworth’s “Idiot

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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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/or manufacture. They too had to form together as a network so as to bringtogether much tacit knowledge that would otherwise be unavailable.Bingham and Hames show the importance of skill in liaison and coordination. In the pursuitof the Task force’s goals. Just as the principles of networking are generic so are the skills oftechnical (scientific) coordination. Indeed Trevelyan believes they are the key skills in theengineer’s repertoire “Engineering itself is a large symphony of combined collaborationperformances” [12]. That could equally be said of the VTF as described by Bingham andHames.Finally, evidence supports the view that teams are more effective when their membership isdiverse. Bingham reflected, “I now realised that we did not have

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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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theory and practice of integrative engineering education. She contributes to various local and national initiatives dedicated to equity and inclusion in engineering education, technological stewardship, and professional reflection in engineering.Mr. Amit Sundly, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada Amit Sundly is an up-and-coming interdisciplinary researcher who has conducted both qualitative and quantitative research. His M.Ed. thesis focused on the previously understudied academic decision-making patterns of undergraduate engineering students, revealing disparities in engineering education in New- foundland and Labrador. Amit received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal

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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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material interms of Whitehead’s rhythm of education; however, material is still overwhelmingly confined tothe precision stage.IntroductionEngineering education has a history of recognizing the importance of philosophicalconsiderations on educational research and practice [1]. This is reflected in a 2006 statementfrom a group of leading engineering educators titled The Research Agenda for the NewDiscipline of Engineering Education [2, p. 259] where “engineering epistemologies” is cited asone of five research directions. Epistemology is there defined as “research on what constitutesengineering thinking and knowledge within social contexts now and into the future.” That broaddefinition is applied in “drastically different ways” as Beddoes [3] found

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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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) capabilities with social relationships & networks adistant second (0.05). Again this is not surprising since these are values that overlap with achievingquality in production or service. The finer grained analysis showed that certain elements of ABETcriteria and Walker’s capabilities had little overlap within these broader categories. For exampleWalker’s capability of practical reason includes ‘being able to construct a personal life project in anuncertain world’ which includes the element of knowing what to do, the medieval concept of synderesis[40]. The overlap of this element of Walker’s practical reason capability with ABET was much less, only0.04 f, and reflects the fact that the quality of a defined product or service does not include

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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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students and faculty better integrate the virtue of resilienceinto student learning experiences. This paper examines the development, reliability, andvalidity of the VRI.Resilience and its RoleResilience reflects the ability or willingness to ‘bounce back’ and persist in the effort toachieve a goal when faced with challenges [1]. Beliefs related to resilience increase thelikelihood that an individual will act resiliently but are not in themselves “resilience”.Consequently, resilience is more related to a habitual attitude and is better modeled as adisposition. When supportive of the good, resilience becomes an aspect of the virtue offortitude [2]. When viewed through a lens of psychometrics, resilience relates to thepsychological disposition of

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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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cohorts of graduate students who study in the U.S. institutionsof higher education. The section below outlines typical communicational difficulties occurredbetween culturally diverse student cohorts on the U.S. campuses.3.2. Communication Challenges Between American and International Students while atSchoolMatsuda & Silva [6] pointed that International students had faced anxiety and challenges whilebeing at an American Institutions. Often, their unwillingness to communicate with domesticEnglish-native speaker peers indicates various fears. For instance, “One of the students who theyhave wrote about is Park, a student from Korea. Park in his reflective commentary had writtenabout how depressed he was about getting a good grade and how he

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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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, reflections, and student self-directed projects. A smallsampling of those articles is provided in Table Two and it can easily be filled in with morecurrent work.The course was only offered once and with a small enrollment, so it is difficult to provide muchin the way of assessment data or even suggestions for the next course offering as the graduateprogram was closed. One student in the course did take the course paper and expand it into amaster’s thesis topic looking at the role of altruism and its motivations. He conducted qualitativeresearch with interviews and analyses of motivations for alumni giving in higher education andconsidered what of those drives might be significant for future general AI. Table One: Initial