Reading the Big Picture

2016 ◽  
Vol 138 (05) ◽  
pp. 44-49
Author(s):  
James G. Skakoon
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Medical Device ◽  
High Performance ◽  
New Products ◽  
History Of Technology ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
Science Degree ◽  
Big Picture ◽  
History Of ◽  
Flight Deck

This article presents views and experiences of several engineers. Experts point out that books about the nature and history of technology can help round out an engineering education. Spencer Bondhus, a B.S.M.E degree holder, has been developing new products in the medical device industry. Adam Leemans has completed a Master of Science degree in energy and sustainability. Jill Hershman, another B.S.M.E graduate, finds Fearless Leadership: High-Performance Lessons From the Flight Deck by Carey D. Lohrenz very helpful in broad engineering thinking. Maxim Budyansky, the chief technology officer and co-founder of Avitus Orthopaedics, likes to learn about different ways of thinking as in The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom by Don Miguel Ruiz and Become What You Are by Alan W. Watts and also from self-improvement books like Carnegie’s How to Win Friends and Influence People.

Humanities in Engineering Education

2012 ◽  
pp. 285-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Teresa Russo
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Technical Progress ◽  
Human Factor ◽  
Technical Skills ◽  
History Of Technology ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Comprehensive Education ◽  
History Of ◽  
Deep Sense

The difficulty in defining who the engineer is, in our times, is due to the increasing complexity of technical progress, which seems endless. The engineer’s professionalism nowadays requires not only technical skills, but also a deep sense of responsibility towards human society and the environment. It is necessary to answer more adequately to this complexity by providing the engineer a more comprehensive education. The inclusion of Humanities in the curriculum of the Engineering Faculties—specifically that of Anthropology, Ethics, Literature, and History of Technology—is indispensable for regaining the human factor in technological questions and for educating responsible and competent professionals.

scholarly journals GROWING AN ONLINE GERONTOLOGY MINOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S614-S614
Author(s):  
Jacqueline Eaton
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Students ◽  
Student Orientation ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
University Of Utah ◽  
Introductory Course ◽  
Science Degree ◽  
New Student Orientation ◽  
History Of ◽  
Barriers To Enrollment ◽  
The University

Abstract The Gerontology Interdisciplinary Program at the University of Utah has a long history of offering certificates (48 years) and a Master of Science degree (25 years). Relatively new to our program is the minor in gerontology, first available in 2013. This paper will describe efforts to grow this program, barriers to enrollment, and plans for expansion. In 2018, the program developed a targeted strategy to increase student awareness of and enrollment in the minor. First, we focused on newly enrolled pre-nursing students through new student orientation presentations and registration support. The introductory course within the minor jumped in enrollment from 6 students in Fall of 2017 to 40 in Fall 2018. Students taking courses in the minor received follow-up support and instructions mid-semester to ease matriculation. Enrollment in the minor increased by 140%. Next, we plan to apply these strategies to a broader number of colleges and departments throughout campus.

Panel session - historical visions: Enhancing engineering education through the history of technology

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Atsushi Akera ◽  
David Hemmendinger ◽  
J. Douglass Klein ◽  
Frederik Nebeker ◽  
Aristotle Tympas
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
History Of Technology ◽  
Panel Session ◽  
History Of

The History of Technology: How it Can Enhance the Information Engineering Curriculum

1995 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Bissell
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
History Of Technology ◽  
Engineering Curriculum ◽  
Information Engineering ◽  
History Of

The history of technology: how it can enhance the information engineering curriculum It is argued, with reference to three case studies from the field of information engineering, that the history of technology has significant pedagogical potential for engineering education. Appropriate historical elements can give students a vital broader perspective, as well as improve the attractiveness of technology as a subject of study.

The Normativities of Engineers: Engineering Education and History of Technology

2009 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 737-752 ◽  
Author(s):  
John K. Brown ◽  
Gary Lee Downey ◽  
Maria Paula Diogo
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
History Of Technology ◽  
History Of

In Memoriam. Elżbieta Maria Walerian, Ph.D., D.Sc.

2015 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-154
Author(s):  
Mirosław Meissner
Keyword(s):  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
Sound Field ◽  
Physical Acoustics ◽  
Serious Illness ◽  
Technological Research ◽  
Master Of Science ◽  
Science Degree ◽  
Environmental Acoustics ◽  
In Memoriam ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

Abstract Elżbieta M. Walerian, Ph.D., D.Sc., a retired employee of the Institute of Fundamental Technological Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences (IPPT PAN), passed away after a serious illness, on the 26th December 2013. She was one of the scientific leaders in the Section of Environmental Acoustics of IPPT PAN and her career, educational and organizational activities were inseparably linked with the acoustics. Elżbieta Walerian was born on August 9th 1950 in Poznań. She graduated from the Faculty of Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry of the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, receiving her Master of Science degree in the environmental acoustics in 1973. Five years later, under the supervision of Professor Ignacy Malecki, she obtained her PhD title, in the physical acoustics, in IPPT PAN in Warsaw. In 1979 she began working at the Section of Environmental Acoustics of IPPT PAN, where she dealt with the diffraction of acoustic waves and a description of the sound field produced by vehicles moving in an urban area.

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