1. Educational learning outcomes and expected professional competence in engineering
Nina Reistad Piotr Szybek,
Lund Institute of Technology Department of Education,
Lund University, Sweden
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2. Expected competence and required curriculum
From curriculum to capabilities
From capabilities to competence at work
From expected competence at work to required curriculum

3. capabilities
curriculum
competence at work

4. The research programme
Relation of competence at work and capabilities accrued in education
Relation of capabilities accrued in education and the learning environment

5. The affordances of the environment are what it offers the animal, what it provides or furnishes, either for good or ill. The verb to afford is found in the dictionary, but the noun affordance is not. I have made it up. I mean by it something that refers to both the environment and the animal in a way that no existing term does. It implies the complementarity of the animal and the environment.
(Gibson 1979, 127; emphasis in original)
Här är felet åtgärdat. Ekosystemteknik är Environmental engineering och inget annat.
(DET HANDLAR INTE SÅ MYCKET OM ETT NYTT PROGRAM, UTAN OM ETT NYTT SÄTT ATT LÄGGA UPP bl.a. FYSIKKURSER)
Som ni ser så betonas här
Utbildningens målkompetens – med en grund i energi- och miljö samt hållbar utveckling
Fysikens ämnesområde
Det sistnämnda är i en relation till energi- och miljöproblemen.

6. What kind of environment does engineering education constitute?
What does it offer the students?
(either for good or ill)

7. One example
The environmental engineering education programme at the Lund University Faculty of Engineering (the”W-programme”).

8. The structure of a Physics course
Lectures
Seminars
Problem solving exercises
Laboratory exercises
Literature
Den traditionella strukturen i en fysikkurs på LTH. Som jag förresten känner igen från kurser i kemi som jag själv medverkade i på 70talet – som amanuens på biokem. Och den är inte olik strukturen på de fysikkurser jag gick i Warszawa.
Jag la till seminarier. Men jag tror att det bara är jag som arbetar så på grundkurserna fysik. Ta gärna bort det, normalt finns bara de 3 Du nämner.
mandatory

9. Ekosystemtekniker.
Photo: Nina Reistad

10. Ekosystemtekniker.
Photo: Nina Reistad

11. There is a lack of a latent presence of a teacher
What does this environment afford?
There is a lack of a latent presence of a teacher
Students are left alone, they are supposed to assume responsibility for the problem solving

12. There are more girls in this programme than in other programmes
Ekosystemtekniker.
Photo: Nina Reistad

13. Exercises tie together several aspects of physics
Example –
Compute the kinetic energy of nitrogen molecules:
Mechanics and thermodynamics
Compute the distance between atoms in en hydrogen chloride molecule given its potential energy
Här skulle vi vilja anknyta till Ingerman och Booth
Detta är två enkla exempel, vi bygger vidare och hoppas att det ska ske en progression. Där mer och mer måste användas för att kunna hantera hela problemet.
Mechanics and spectroscopy

14. What does this afford? From: MAKING SENSE OF STUDYING PHYSICS
Åke Ingerman & Shirley Booth
presented at the 12th Annual Meeting of the Southern African Association for Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education (SAARMSTE), Cape Town, 2004, pdf/051_ingerman_booth.pdf (accessed May 2006)

15. Courses are identified with the study situation
Here the engineering physics programme has been experienced as a discrete set of courses, a means to the end of a degree. These are related to authority, i.e. teachers and tradition, and common features, such as the ways in which courses were organised.
One course is seen as a prerequisite for another course
… a pre-ordained, correct sequence of acquisition of knowledge fragments is assumed. A ‘red thread’ is sought in terms of needs and demands. Authority for (…) content and structure is still the domain of teachers and tradition.
One course is seen as being useful in other courses
Courses now support one another, but are still necessarily arranged in a specific order. Reference is made to the knowledge fragments that constitute the courses, which mesh into one another, course-to-course.
Courses are related through mutual illumination
(…) Courses now lend meaning to each other and understanding in an earlier course can be found in a later course. There are now networks that mesh and unmesh, knowledge fragments might be grouped together in different ways and offer different perspectives. (…) The Physics that is constituted takes on a dynamic form (…)
Courses fit together into an adaptable whole
The courses are seen as constituting parts of a whole, and the strict ordering structure of the educational programme knowledge content is broken apart. An internal dynamic enables a picture to develop which is different on different occasions, depending on what aspects are brought into focus.
Courses in physics come into physics of the world
The borders between courses are erased, (…) physics and the physics world are one with the knower.
Vi hävdar att kursen i fråga rör sig ”neråt i tabellen” – så att ämnet och den värld där fysiken är meningsfull ”are one with the knower”.
Vi har sett exempel på hur ” knowledge fragments might be grouped together in different ways and
offer different perspectives.” och vi kommer att se exempel på hur fysiken kommer in i teknologens livsvärld.

16. Courses in physics come into physics of the world
Courses are identified with the study situation
a discrete set of courses, a means to the end of a degree. These are related to authority, i.e. teachers and tradition…
Courses in physics come into physics of the world
The borders between courses are erased, (…) physics and the physics world are one with the knower.

17. Laboratory exercises Heat pump and the Stirling motor Carbon cycle
Thermodynamics
Carbon cycle
Gases
Spectra of lamps, car exhaust etc.
Spectroscopy
Background radiation
Radiation
Är inte detta ett exempel på hur ”knowledge fragments might be grouped together in different ways and
offer different perspectives.” (Åke och Shirley) samt hur fysiken fås in i livsvärlden.
Bilden visar värmepumpsanläggningen.
Photo: Nina Reistad

18. The affordance seems to be:
Things must be kept together, not separate
Things are connected with a future competence at work

19. Literature
”The course is problem oriented. You choose as literature the material which works best for you. ”
Two standard texts are recommended for those who want
Lecture compendia available
Online literature list
Detta är en uppmaning för teknologen att aktivt söka annan litteratur än standardverken. På detta sätt kan de komma i kontakt med andra sätt att kontextualisera begreppen. Även detta främjar att ” knowledge fragments might be grouped together in different ways and offer different perspectives.” så att fysiken till slut kommer in i teknologens livsvärld.

20. Take an active stance toward literature.
This affords:
Take an active stance toward literature.
Do not confuse the authority of the staff and your responsibility for your own learning.

21. Seminars (one example)
Uranium ammunition (used by USAF A10 Thunderbolts against tanks) left on the battlefields in Kosovo, in the late 1990s. Media did not make the problems concerned with this visible. Students identified and elaborated them from the point of view of physics. A picture of hazards was made clear. After this students were charged with the mission of explaining the results of their work to their families and friends.
Nina har lagt in 2 exempel på hur man ger studenterna problemställningen. Se nästkommande bilder.

22. Depleted uranium Uranium
Depleted uranium used in projectiles is pure uranium metal. Being heavy (r = 19 g/cm3) and hard, the projectiles can penetrate even thick armour. In Kosovo such projectiles have been used against tanks, armoured vehicles, hardened artillery positions and decoys. Projectiles which penetrate armour are ignited and burn to a fine ash of black uranium oxide. Projectiles which miss their target enter soil unscathed but can break if encountering a hard object.
Uranium is an element naturally occurring in rock, soil and water and the human body. The uranium content of rock and water varies and is relatively high in Swedish granites and alum shale. Material with uranium content exceeding ca 0,1 % can be used as uranium ore for the production of reactor fuel. However, to be of any use as fuel in light water reactors a material must have a higher percentage of uranium 235 than naturally occurring uranium. This is achieved in the enrichment process. The rest product of the process is called depleted uranium and contains ca three times less uranium 235 than naturally occurring uranium.
When uranium is produced, its decay products, such as the highly radioactive radium, are removed. This is why depleted uranium has a relatively low radioactivity compared to pieces of uranium ore. The external gamma radiation coming from the depleted uranium forming a coating on the ground is so low that it is normally not measurable with hand-operated instruments. Depleted uranium gives therefore no gamma radiation higher than the natural level of radiation coming from the uranium, thorium and potassium always present in soil and rock. To stay near a projectile made of depleted uranium does not constitute any danger unless one is staying for a longer time (days) near to a stock of uranium projectiles or is bearing one for a long time.
(…)
When depleted uranium is used in armour penetrating ammunition the whole projectile or parts of it break down to fine dust of mainly uranium metal and uranium oxide. Uranium dust is spread by air and when it falls down forms a coating on the ground. Uranium can enter the body e.g. by breathing uranium dust, and orally, when contaminated food or drink is ingested, or directly via contaminated hands.
Since uranium is both a heavy metal and a radioactive substance it presents a twofold risk: a biochemical-toxic and a radiation risk. If it enters the body it can both interact biochemically with inner organs and emit radiation, which constitutes a higher risk of cancer.
From the study material by Nina Reistad
Depleted uranium
Detta är presentationen som studenterna får.

23. Depleted uranium (problem solving)
Plutonium is radiotoxic, i.e it can harm humans by its ionizing radiation. There were speculations in the discussion about depleted uranium that depleted uranium also contains very small amounts of plutonium and that this could have contributed to the health deterioration found in many veterans of the Gulf war and the Balkan conflicts.
a)Plutonium (239Pu) disintegrates via an a- disintegration with a half-life of years and the a-particles energy is 5,2 MeV. Which daughter nucleus is formed when 239Pu disintegrates via an a-disintegration?
b) Assume that a person inhales 2,5 mg plutonium dust, that the plutonium stays in the lungs for 12 h and that 95 % of the a -particles are absorbed in the lungs. How much energy is absorbed in the lungs?
c) is there any reason to be concerned with small amounts of plutonium dust – i.e. how big an equivalent dose is a person exposed to because of the plutonium, when the person’s lungs weigh 1,1 kg? The limit for persons coming into contact with ionizing radiation in their work is 100 mSv over five years. An average Swede gets a little over 4 mSv from radiation sources in her/his environment. Let the quality factor for alfa - radiation be 20.
From the study material by Nina Reistad
En tentauppgift. Detta är ett exempel på hur vi har brytit ner frågeställningen till mer elementär fysik. Så det är en lätt uppgift.

24. Students elaborated and solved them from the point of view of physics.
Students translated an “everyday” issue into physics problem.
The result of the problem solving was translated “back” into “everyday issues”
A picture of hazards was made clear.
Students were charged with explaining results to their families and friends.
Cf. the 9§ of the Higher Education Act “…students [shall] develop the capability (…) to exchange knowledge also with persons outside the specific knowledge field.
Och så kan vi se att de första två momenten utgör resten av 9§:
Den grundläggande högskoleutbildningen skall ge studenterna
förmåga att göra självständiga och kritiska bedömningar,
förmåga att självständigt urskilja, formulera och lösa problem, samt
(…)

25. The emergence of meaningful knowledge in the course of putting science to use (Szybek 1999, 2002)
Hela den här cykeln utgör en dynamisk bild av livsvärlden.

26. Connect physics knowledge and everyday action.
This affords:
Connect physics knowledge and everyday action.
(Keep together physics and the human world)

27. Capabilities implied
To connect content to something presenting itself to the learner as a difficulty – something which has the potential of affecting a person, and thus being relevant as subject matter.
To assume (part of the) responsibility for the situation.
To formulate and solve a scientific (physical, in this case) problem.
Thus to “translate” the originary confrontation with the “source of affection” into a setting (“stage”) where strict problem formulation and solving is possible.
To “re-translate” the problem solution into the setting where the remedy is sought, to be able to examine its relevance for the originary difficulty.