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Dear Thaddeus,
Thanks for the conversation today. I look forward to continuing brainstorming and thinking about how we could collaborate.
Here's a link to NCCER, which has various standards if we want these courses accredited as technical trade classes. Not sure whether we'll be working with those standards or not. I'd love to hear about what you think would be a meaningful module on the technical and the theological/philosophical/humanistic side.
Let's plan to have you see that shop space in April.
In Christ,
Kent - 21FEB2024
Brainstorming
Technical Modules
- Introduction to Design
- Material Science 101
- Measurement 101
- Machining 101
- Timber Framing 101
- Every Fastener Ever
Thinking Modules
- History of Technology
- The Industrial Revolution
- Ivan Illich
- The Papal Encyclicals on Work
- Theology of Technology
- Theology/Philosophy of Design
- Design Philosophies
- A History of the Philosophy of Technology
Material Science 101
A combination of statics 1, fatigue, and other materials science with an emphasis on helping understand general trends rather than crunching numbers. Should have an appreciation for building science and the contributions of engineers to projects. Say, 20 hours?
- Review: What is force / torque?
- Stress/strain behavior
- Bending
- Torque/torsion
- Misc. Failure Modes: Fatigue, Resonance
- Abrasion and Corrosion
- Design considerations
- Stress concentrators
- Trusses
- Thermal effects
- Metal (isotropic materials)
- Behavior and composition
- Heat treatment
- Types
- Plastic
- Wood
- Concrete
- Fasteners
Perspectives on Technology
A survey course looking at the perspectives of many different philosophers, craftsmen, and technologists, both outside, inside, and adjacent to the church.
Big list of books:
- Philosophy of Manufactures by Andrew Ure
- Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
- Why We Drive or Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford
- Rerum Novarum by Leo XIII
- Technological Security as a Problem of Social Ethics by Joseph Ratzinger
- The Nature and Art of Workmanship by David Pye
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Industrial Society and its Future by Ted Kacynzski
- What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
- Small is Beautiful by E.F. Schumacher
- The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan
- Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
- The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
- Medieval Technology and Social Change by Lynn White Jr
- Anti-Computing: Dissent and the Machine by Caroline Bassett
- A Pattern Language by Christopher W. Alexander
- Work by Ade Bethune
- By Hand and Eye by Walker & Tolpin
- To Engineer is Human or The Evolution of Useful Things by Henry Petroski
- Science in a Free Society by Paul Feyerabend
Select the most engaging:
- What Technology Wants by Kevin Kelly
- The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis
- Philosophy of Manufactures by Andrew Ure
- Rerum Novarum by Leo XIII
- Technological Security as a Problem of Social Ethics by Joseph Ratzinger
- Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
- Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond