NDLI: Teaching Technology Literacy: An Opportunity for Design Faculty?

Content Provider	The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Digital Collection
Author	Ollis, David Krupczak, John
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	The National Academy of Engineering (NAE), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and various prominent engineering faculty and administrators have pleaded over the last decade that technological literacy is a topic which engineering faculty ought to provide for non-technical majors. We explore here the notion that design faculty are well qualified, perhaps uniquely so, to teach such courses for non-technical majors, i.e., to represent engineering and technology to the non-technical campus population. Engineering design instruction is universally present on the more than 300 campuses hosting an engineering school. Since each engineering department has at least one design instructor, in excess of 1,000 faculty are identified from which to recruit future technology literacy instructors for non-engineering students. We propose that this novel activity as a logical component of design instruction. Further, such novel participation will accomplish a second goal, long sought by design instructors, namely that their profession will have an increased, and more public, visibility and appreciation. In sum, involvement of design instructors as teachers of technology literacy will both assist a national need and simultaneously satisfy a professional goal. Our presentation is structured as follows. We first consider the definition of technological literacy, noting its many dimensions and its need to represent technology through a variety of lenses including historical context, technical content, and device dissection and assembly. We then cite the similarity of activities undertaken by both design instructors and teachers of technological literacy, in particular the broad range of issues (historical, economic, technical, social) inherent in design instruction and problem solving. In consequence, we propose instruction in technological literacy as a new opportunity for appropriately inclined design faculty. Through this activity, these faculty will be among the first to be viewed by non-engineering students, not just the last instructors to be encountered by undergraduate engineers. This situation could provide design instructors with a new and professionally rewarding territory for representation of both the design process and designers themselves.
Sponsorship	Design Engineering Division and Computers and Information in Engineering Division
Starting Page	919
Ending Page	927
Page Count	9
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0791842584
DOI	10.1115/DETC2006-99528
e-ISBN	079183784X
Volume Number	Volume 4c: 3rd Symposium on International Design and Design Education
Conference Proceedings	ASME 2006 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
Language	English
Publisher Date	2006-09-10
Publisher Place	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Design Engineering teachers Engineering design Undergraduate students Students Dimensions Engineers Manufacturing Teaching
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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