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Lecture 5: Scientific Modelling

Teacher: prof. dr. Mieke Boon

Literature & Assignment: Readings Lecture 5, Final Assignment + Handout B&K Theory

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5A: Models as epistemic tools    
     

5.1. Overcoming a naïve picture of how science is applied in engineering by understanding methodological and cognitive strategies in science.

  

Lecture slides:

Slides Lecture 5

 
     

5.2. Introduction: The concept of Models as Epistemic Tool as a means to think about scientific knowledge at a meta-level (across scientific disciplines).

    
     

5.3. How do we construct models that explains the observed phenomena in case the model goes beyond mathematical deduction from basic laws?

    
     

5.4. Explaining the aspects of the B&K tool: The roles of scientific reasoning, epistemic criteria, measurements and theory playing a role in how we construct scientific models.

    
     

5.5. The B&K tool as a strategy for (re-)constructing relevant aspects of scientific models and modelling.

    
     

5.6. Applying the B&K tool to reconstruct the (‘constructed’ and published) scientific model that explains the observed phenomenon of sono-luminescence.

    
     

5.7. How the B&K tool accounts for the construction of scientific models (that explain phenomena), and how it is part of the general HD-method of scientific research.

    
     
5B: Methodologies in the Engineering Sciences    
     

5.8. Introducing the final assignment: using the B&K tool in analyzing a scientific article.

    
     

5.9. What is engineering science? A definition: How engineering science differs from other natural sciences, and how researchers tend to talk about the technological application only (example of Pammography).

  

Socrative answers:

What is Engineering Science?

 
     

5.10. An example of how a technological design problem (in bioleaching) is translated into scientific research project.

    
     

5.11. Applying the B&K tool - steps i, iv, v &vii: What is/are the phenomena relevant to this technology? Which measurements and knowledge do we have about the phenomenon, and what are relevant physical circumstances.

    
     

5.12. How to translate a technological problem into a scientific research project: trial and error solutions versus fundamental understanding.

    
     

5.13. How do we construct a scientific model that explains the (technologically important) phenomenon?

    
     

5.14. Scientific breakthroughs: The role of new measurement methods and experimental techniques (related to step v in B&K).

    
     

5.15. The discovery and the new scientific model (related to steps ii and vii in B&K).