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Jack Wescott and Donald F. Smith. The Legacy Project
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Moye, Johnny J.; Wescott, Jack W.; Smith, Donald F. – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2017
This is the tenth in a series of articles entitled "The Legacy Project." The Legacy Project focuses on the lives and actions of leaders who have forged our profession into what it is today. Members of the profession owe a debt of gratitude to these leaders. One simple way to demonstrate that gratitude is to recognize these leaders and…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Role Models, Recognition (Achievement), Teacher Characteristics
Infusing Engineering Design into High School STEM Courses
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Hynes, Morgan; Portsmore, Merredith; Dare, Emily; Milto, Elissa; Rogers, Chris; Hammer, David; Carberry, Adam – National Center for Engineering and Technology Education, 2011
The Tufts University Center for Engineering Education and Outreach (CEEO) strives to improve STEM education through engineering and believes every student should have the chance to engineer. Situated in Massachusetts, the first state to adopt engineering education at all levels in public schools (Massachusetts DOE, 2001), the CEEO supports the…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering, Elementary Secondary Education, STEM Education
Redesigning Engineering Technology Education. The New Jersey Center for Advanced Technological Education.
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Waintraub, Jack L. – Industry and Higher Education, 1997
The holistic approach to restructuring engineering technology education at the New Jersey Center for Advanced Technological Education includes partnerships for articulated programs, recruitment and retention of underrepresented groups, involvement of industrial personal, and faculty development in innovative instructional methods. (SK)
Descriptors: Curriculum Design, Educational Change, Engineering Education, Engineering Technology
Can the University Escape from the Labyrinth of Technology? Part 4: Extending the Strategy to Medicine, the Social Sciences, and the University
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Vanderburg, Willem H. – Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, 2006
This fourth part outlines a strategy for overcoming the limitations of the knowledge system for engineering by combining intellectual maps, preventive approaches, umbrella concepts, and round tables as described in the earlier parts. A discussion of the issues faced by modern medicine illustrates the paradigmatic nature of the diagnosis and…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Engineering Education, Medical Education, Medicine
The Paradox of Papermaking
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Hubbe, Martin A.; Rojas, Orlando J. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2005
Students and educators in chemical engineering, are you aware of the paper industry and its impact in our society? With retirements and with changing technology there is a continual need for new technical and scientific skills to face the challenging goals of our times. The purpose of this article is to introduce some intriguing aspects of…
Descriptors: Chemical Engineering, Science and Society, Engineering Technology, Paper (Material)
Drawing the Connections: Engineering Science and Engineering Practice
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Morrison, Faith A. – Chemical Engineering Education, 2005
A need has emerged in the curriculum for more teamwork experience, for the development of better communication and critical thinking skills, and for the acquisition of specialized knowledge. A focus on the processes by which problems are solved has served our discipline well and can continue to serve us if in the classroom we make appropriate…
Descriptors: Engineering Education, Engineering Technology, Educational Practices, Educational Change