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Teaching Technical Engineering Courses From A Christian Perspective: Two Examples, Charles C. Adams
Teaching Technical Engineering Courses From A Christian Perspective: Two Examples, Charles C. Adams
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Engineering professors, like those of the natural sciences, usually teach by breaking the subject matter into parts, that is, courses and activities that are logically abstract from each other. While together comprising a coherent whole, those individual parts too easily foster abstractionism, the view that such subjects as calculus, fluid mechanics, engineering design, and engineering ethics “really are” separable from one another. Such a view militates against a Christian perspective of engineering, technology, and reality in general by replacing the organic wholeness of life before the face of God with the compartmentalization that is characteristic of modern science and naturalism. …
Automobiles, Computers And Assault Rifles: The Value-Ladenness Of Technology And The Engineering Curriculum, Charles C. Adams
Automobiles, Computers And Assault Rifles: The Value-Ladenness Of Technology And The Engineering Curriculum, Charles C. Adams
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Charles Adams received the 1989 Mikol Award for this essay, which was originally presented to the North Midwest Section of the American Society for Engineering Education.