John Krupczak is a professor of engineering at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He was the founding chair of the Technological Literacy Division of ASEE. John served as a Senior Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering’s Center for the Advancement of the Scholarship of Engineering Education (CASEE) from 2008-2010. He received a BA degree in physics from Williams College and MS and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His current interest is the development of frameworks to facilitate the description of technological systems.