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Fisher, Diane – Technology Teacher, 2007
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has already sent many technological instruments into outer space. All these instruments were designed and built especially to operate in harsh and alien environments. How do NASA engineers know what kinds of planetary instruments to develop in the first place? Well, they ask. Once engineers…
Descriptors: Space Sciences, Engineering Technology, Engineering Education, Science Process Skills
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Harris, Kara S.; Rogers, George E. – Technology Teacher, 2008
In this article, the authors examine which nontechnical competencies or soft skills related to technology education should be developed by high school students. Results clearly indicate that university-level engineering and engineering technology professors rate students' interpersonal, communication, and work ethic competencies as desired…
Descriptors: Engineering Technology, Engineering Education, Communication Skills, Work Ethic
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Lien, Brian – Technology Teacher, 2007
In this article, the author describes an activity he introduced to his engineering drafting students that involved a Tootsie Roll product. In this particular activity, he assigned his students to find out how many licks are needed to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll Pop. He first asked his students to do some research if an answer exists for…
Descriptors: Engineering Technology, Engineering Education, Science Activities, Problem Based Learning