{"id":81,"date":"2019-08-16T21:59:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T21:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses1920.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2019\/?page_id=81"},"modified":"2021-09-16T21:34:06","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T21:34:06","slug":"benjamin-franklin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/schedule\/benjamin-franklin\/","title":{"rendered":"Benjamin Franklin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2021\/09\/franklin.auto_.abridged.docx\">Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (excerpts)\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0The term engineer was defined differently in Franklin&#8217;s day.\u00a0 Using our modern day definition, Is it reasonable to think of Franklin as an engineer? \u00a0 Is there another term that would fit him better?\u00a0 Do you think he was a good engineer (or whatever)? \u00a0Why or why not?\u00a0 Do you see any connections with the themes Johnson discusses?\u00a0 What role did printing and information technology play in Franklin&#8217;s life? (Look carefully throughout his life.) Do you think Franklin&#8217;s life would have been different if he was a chandler? How do you think Franklin was different from other people of his day?\u00a0 We have had two presidents who were engineers (Hoover and Carter) and their presidencies are generally not considered successful. From the reading do you think Franklin was an effective politician?\u00a0 Why or why not? How do you think Franklin would transfer to the world of today? Can a budding engineer today learn lessons from Franklin&#8217;s life?\u00a0\u00a0 Does our program have an appropriate namesake?\u00a0 How awesome was Benjamin Franklin?\u00a0 Totally?\u00a0 Monstrously?\u00a0 Ridiculously?\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography (excerpts)\u00a0 \u00a0The term engineer was defined differently in Franklin&#8217;s day.\u00a0 Using our modern day definition, Is it reasonable to think of Franklin as an engineer? \u00a0 Is there another term that would fit him better?\u00a0 Do you think he was a good engineer (or whatever)? \u00a0Why or why not?\u00a0 Do you see [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":548,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/548"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/81\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress-courses2425.wolfware.ncsu.edu\/sts-302-002h-fall-2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}