Engineering and Technology Literacy Introduced in Cornerstone Design Courses

Abstract

is an assistant professor of instruction with the Undergraduate Engineering Office and the Mechanical Engineering department at Northwestern University. His research was conducted at the intersection of robotics and biomechanics in the field of human-machine interactions, and explored novel ways to control robotic prosthetic hands. He is very passionate about student education and currently teaches five separate courses at the undergraduate level that include manufacturing, design, experimental methods, and thermodynamics. He greatly enjoys advising all levels of undergraduate and early graduate students. He is the producer for the Lightboard studio, and is currently exploring models for effective online and hybrid teaching models.

Engineering Technology Students’ Demonstration of Iterative Product Design without a Design Process Diagram

“…Design and is often taught in courses prior to capstone, such as a cornerstone [5,6], electives [7,8], or in multiple course across a design thread/spine [9,10,11,12]. A design thread/spine is generally considered a multiyear sequence of hands-on design, build, test, and document courses where individuals and/or teams are presented with increasingly difficult design challenges [13].…”

Using Stories of Technology to Teach Technological and Engineering Literacy in Courses for Majors

“…While much of this effort at colleges and universities has been focused on non-majors, people graduating from engineering and engineering technology degree programs cannot just be assumed to have this literacy. TEL needs to be incorporated in the engineering curriculum as well [10][11][12][13][14].…”