Technological literacy: Subject or Pedagogy. Implications for liberal education

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John Heywood completed 60 years of membership with ASEE in June. His first paper to ERM was in 1973. He has some 190 authored and co-authored publications including 6 books on aspects of engineering education. His "Engineering Education. Research and Development in Curriculum and Instruction" received the best research publication award from the Division for the Professions of the American Educational research Association" . His most recent book Designing Engineering and Technology Curricula. Embedding Educational Philosophy was published by Morgan and Claypool as an e book this year. He is a Professor Emeritus of Trinity College Dublin (The University of Dublin) where he was for twenty years Director of Teacher Education. Prior to that he was a member of the Faculty of Engineering, Department of Industrial Studies at the University of Liverpool. He directed the first attempt at a multi-dimensional analysis of the jobs done by engineers published in 1978 as "Analysing Jobs". His particular interests in engineering are in radio astronomy and space research and he participated in one of the radio observation programmes of Sputnik I. He is a Fellow of ASEE and a Life Fellow of IEEE. Alan Cheville (T. Jefferson Miers Chair in Electrical Engineering, Professor Department Chair)Alan Cheville studied optoelectronics and ultrafast optics at Rice University before joining Oklahoma State University working on terahertz frequencies and engineering education. While at Oklahoma State he developed courses in photonics and engineering design. After serving for two and a half years as a program director in engineering education at the National Science Foundation, he became chair of the ECE Department at Bucknell University. He is currently interested in engineering design education, engineering education policy, and the philosophy of engineering education.