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What Color Is Your Lab Coat: Science White or Technology Blue?

What Color Is Your Lab Coat: Science White or Technology Blue?. Andrew S. Gibbons Utah State University. Chapter 1: The Graduate Dean. Dissertation reviews Trouble with College of Engineering Couldn’t pinpoint concern Sent back one study, asking more

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What Color Is Your Lab Coat: Science White or Technology Blue?

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  1. What Color Is Your Lab Coat: Science White or Technology Blue? Andrew S. Gibbons Utah State University AECT 2002

  2. Chapter 1: The Graduate Dean • Dissertation reviews • Trouble with College of Engineering • Couldn’t pinpoint concern • Sent back one study, asking more • “Didn’t fit the mold of scientific study” • “It’s circling the earth now”

  3. Troubled Fit of Curriculums in the U • Difficulty of Soft Sciences • Sociology, Anthropology, Psychology • Difficulty of Trade or Skilled Fields • Instructional Tech, Law, Medicine • Difficulty of Commercial Arts • Business, Economics, Law, Medicine • Difficulty of Arts and Humanities • Art, Music, Drama, (Landscape) Architecture

  4. “Distancing” certain degrees • Interdisciplinary snobbery based on the quality of their “science”

  5. Walter Vincenti • Book Title: What Engineers Know and How They Know It

  6. Chapter 2: The Greenie • Coming to U from industry • What is an acceptable dissertation? • Do technologists produce knowledge? • Do they have theory? • What is the nature of the knowledge? • What is the nature of the theory? • How are they warranted? Argued?

  7. The Theory Issue Today • Bruner • Reigeluth • Proliferation of theories • Science has enjoyed 200 years of public debate on its foundations of theory—technology just 50 at most • Yet our expectations of theory will shape our research agenda

  8. Could We Be Science Mimics? • Evidence: • Seeking the “right” or “best” asnwer • Expecting direct theory conversion from science • Confusion of research agenda • Uncertain standard of knowledge warrants

  9. Herbert Simon • Book: Sciences of the Artificial

  10. Roundtable • “Top 10 List”, Answers to the Question: “What Difference Does It Make Whether Our Students See Themselves primarily as Scientists or Primarily as Technologists?”

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