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Engineering Education
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Name of Course |
Contributor | Institution | Institution Type | |
1000 Level History of Technology | ||||
ASHE-1100 The History of Technology: Culture and Context | R. Martello | Olin College | Private / Engineering | |
syllabus |
(forthcoming) | |||
Introductory Courses / Seminars for Engineers | ||||
IHSS-1975 Social Dimensions of Engineering |
A. Akera | Rensselaer Polytechnic | Private / Engineering | |
A first year readings/projects based seminar (25 students max) designed to introduce engineers to humanistic and social science perspectives. Though not strictly a history of technology course, given my own training, we do use a good amount of history of tech readings. The course is based on using educational/entrepreneurial simulation both to promote standard professional development objectives, but also to take an approach that mobilizes a rather broad suite of techniques for engaged learning. Engineering students, simply put, like to do things rather than read things, and while there’s a good amount of reading involved as well, they do get a chance to explore and “implement” ideas in ways that generates interest, while also contributing to knowledge (and student?) retention. You’ll also notice a “globalization” theme, though I’m curious here, for feedback, on whether you think I’m doing so responsibly. I’ll attach a couple of the team project assignment descriptions as well, since I think this conveys more of an idea of how this part unfolds. | ||||
2000+ History of Technology | ||||
HIST-225 Engineering in History |
A. Johnson | Univ. of South Carolina | Public / University | |
syllabus | This is is a history of engineering course I teach to sophomore level-ish engineering students. We're working to get this approved as their gen ed required history course. A similar course in the history of science is imagined for science majors. | |||
Specialized / Advanced Topics Courses | ||||
(TBA) | ||||
Introductory
Courses for Other Related Disciplines |
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ITEC-1220 Politics and Economics
of Information Technology |
A. Akera | Rensselaer Polytechnic | Private / Engineering | |
This is a very different course from IHSS1975 (Social Dimensions of Engineering), and is designed for first year IT students. It too uses the model of educational simulation, but in a larger format. Thought not designed for engineering students per se (although the issues are similar), and this course has even less to do with history (the first course in the sequence does make extensive use of the history of communications; it’s taught by another faculty member in our department.) I thought folks might find it useful to look at in terms of the scalability of the kind of course described above. You’ll want to also check out the associated website, www.rpi.edu/~akeraa/pe-IT if you want to examine this model further. | ||||
Engineering Ethics | ||||
PHIL-321 Engineering Ethics |
A. Johnson | Univ. of South Carolina | Public / University | |
syllabus | A course in engineering ethics, which mostly mechanical engineers take to fulfill their ethics requirement (as is true for most of your universities, each engineering program at USC has its own often idiosyncratic ways to meet ABET reqs., thus this course which isn't focused specifically on MechE end up being about 90% MechEs). | |||
Atsushi Akera (chair of working group)
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
email: akeraa@rpi.edu // tel: (usa) 518.276.2314