Many engineering departments struggle to meet “the broad education necessary to understand the impact of engineering solutions in a global, economic, environmental, and societal context” (Outcome h) that is required for ABET. As a result, engineering students receive meaningful contextual experiences in piecemeal fashion and graduate with a lack of concrete competencies that bridge knowledge and practice in the global world in which they will live and work. By considering products as designed artifacts with a history rooted in their development, our product archaeology framework combines concepts from archaeology with advances in cyber-enhanced product dissection to implement pedagogical innovations that address the significant educational gap. In this paper, we focus on assessing elements of a sustainable and scalable foundation that can support novel approaches aimed at educating engineering students to understand the global, economic, environmental, and societal context and impact of engineering solutions. This foundation is being developed across a network of partner institutions. We present recent results from freshman, sophomore, and senior courses at two of the partners in the national network of institutions.
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ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
August 4–7, 2013
Portland, Oregon, USA
Conference Sponsors:
- Design Engineering Division
- Computers and Information in Engineering Division
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978-0-7918-5584-3
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The Assessment of Product Archaeology as a Platform for Contextualizing Engineering Design
Kemper Lewis,
Kemper Lewis
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
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Deborah Moore-Russo,
Deborah Moore-Russo
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
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Phil Cormier,
Phil Cormier
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
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Andrew Olewnik,
Andrew Olewnik
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
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Gül Kremer,
Gül Kremer
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
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Conrad Tucker,
Conrad Tucker
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
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Tim Simpson,
Tim Simpson
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
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Omar Ashour
Omar Ashour
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
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Kemper Lewis
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
Deborah Moore-Russo
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
Phil Cormier
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
Andrew Olewnik
University at Buffalo - SUNY, Buffalo, NY
Gül Kremer
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Conrad Tucker
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Tim Simpson
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Omar Ashour
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA
Paper No:
DETC2013-13165, V001T04A024; 13 pages
Published Online:
February 12, 2014
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Lewis, K, Moore-Russo, D, Cormier, P, Olewnik, A, Kremer, G, Tucker, C, Simpson, T, & Ashour, O. "The Assessment of Product Archaeology as a Platform for Contextualizing Engineering Design." Proceedings of the ASME 2013 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. Volume 1: 15th International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies; 10th International Conference on Design Education; 7th International Conference on Micro- and Nanosystems. Portland, Oregon, USA. August 4–7, 2013. V001T04A024. ASME. https://doi.org/10.1115/DETC2013-13165
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