Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities
Have Their Conversations Come of Age?
Samenvatting
This book presents a critical examination of conversations between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities asking whether their conversations have come of age. These conversations are important because ultimately their outcome have real world consequences in engineering education and practice, and for the social and material world we inhabit. Taken together the 21 chapters provide scholarly-argued responses to the following questions.
Why are these conversations important for engineering, for social sciences, and for the humanities?Are there key places in practice, in the curriculum, and in institutions where these conversations can develop best?What are the barriers to successful conversations?What proposals can be made for deepening these conversations for the future?How would we know that the conversations have come of age, and who gets to decide?
The book appeals to scholarly audiences that come together through their work in engineering education and practice. The chapters of the book probes and access the meetings and conversations, and they explore new avenues for strengthening dialogues that transcend narrow disciplinary confines and divisions.
“The volume offers a rich collection of descriptive resources and theoretical tools that will be useful for researchers of engineering practices, and for those aiming to reshape the engineering lifeworld through new policies. The book depicts the current state of the art of the most visible SSH contributions to shaping engineering practices, as well as a map of research gaps and policy problems that still need to be explored.” - Dr. Ir. Lavinia Marin, TU Delft, Electrical Engineering and Philosophy
Specificaties
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<p>Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Anders Buch, Eddie Conlon, Christelle Didier, Carl Mitcham, and Mike Murphy </p>
<p>Part I. Achievements resulting from the Conversation between Engineering, Social Science, and the Humanities<br></p>
<p>Chapter 2. Engineering: A Challenging and Challenged Profession<br></p>
<p>William Grimson , Jane Grimson, and Mike Murphy</p>
<p>Chapter 3. Institutionalizing Engineering Education Research: Comparing Australia, China, and the United States<br></p>
<p>Brent Jesiek, Jenni Case, Mike Klassen, and Lina Zheng</p>
<p>Chapter 4. Waste Management as a Post-normal Issue<br></p>
<p>Fanny Verrax</p>
<p>Chapter 5. When Do Engineers Revolt? Engineering Practice and the Comparative History of Engineers and Social Movements<br></p>
<p>William T. Lynch</p>
<p>Part II. Disagreements and Failures in Conversation<br></p>
<p>Chapter 6. The C.P. Snow Controvercy<br></p>
<p>Alan Cheville </p>
<p>Chapter 7. Social Sciences and Engineering at a Turning Point?<br></p>
<p>Cynthia Colmellere </p>
<p>Chapter 8. The Two Cultures of Engineering Education: Looking back and moving forward<br></p>
<p>Diana Martin and Madeline Polmear</p>
<p>Chapter 9. Rethinking the Paradigm of Engineering in Social Projects: Contributions from Anthropology and the Gender Perspective<br></p>
<p>Natalia Zlachevsky</p>
<p>Chapter 10. An Opportunity for Bridging Engineering, Humanities, and Social Science Cultures through Techno-Anthropology: A Case Study Approach<br></p>
<p>Tom Børsen</p>
<p>Chapter 11. Reflections on the Use of Theory in Engineering Education Research: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Comparisons<br></p>
<p>Kacey Beddoes</p>
<p>Chapter 12. Social Justice in Engineering: In or out of Place?<br></p>
<p>Mike Murphy and Steen Hyldgaard Christensen</p>
<p>Chapter 13. Engineering Ethics: The Individualistic Approach and How Social Theory Could Help us to Do Better<br></p>
<p>Eddie Conlon</p>
<p>Chapter 14. A Critique: Report of the Nasem Committee of Integrating Higher Education in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Engineering and Medicine<br></p>
<p>Louis L. Bucciarelli and David Drew</p>
<p>Part III. Blind Spots and uncovered Issues<br></p>
<p>Chapter 15. Transition from Engineering Education to Practice: A Research Agenda<br></p>
<p>James Trevelyan </p>
<p>Chapter 16. The Non-Conversations between Engineering, Social Science, and the Humanities</p>
<p>Carl Mitcham</p>
<p>Chapter 17. Using Socio-cultural Theory to Gain a better Understanding of Barriers to Change in Engineering Education<br></p>
<p>Marie Magnell</p>
<p>Chapter 18. Social Reproduction and Ranking in French high Level Engineering Schools<br></p>
<p>Marie-Pierre Bès and Luc Lefort</p>
<p>Chapter 19. Engineering Myths in China and the West<br></p>
<p>Glen Miller, Michael Portal and XU Xin</p>
<p>Chapter 20. Culture and Nature: How Engineering (Philosophy) might Bridge the Gap<br></p>
<p>Anders Buch</p>
<p>Chapter 21. Engineering in Partnership with Social Sciences and Humanities: Realising more Valuable and Valued Disciplines and Professions in Facing Contemporary (Un)Sustainability Challenges<br></p>
<p>Edmund Byrne, Connor McGookin, Alexandra Revez, Niall Dunphy, Claire O’Neill, Kieran Keohane, John Barry, Brian Ó Gallachóir, and Gerard Mullally</p>
<p>Chapter 22. Tissue Engineering and the Bioconstruction of artificial Human Organs<br></p>
<p>Xavier Guchet</p>
<p>Chapter 23. Integrating Insights from Design Science Research into Engineering Education<br></p>
<p>Lars Bækgaard and Christian Lystbæk</p>
<p>Chapter 24. Conclusions<br></p>
Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Anders Buch, Eddie Conlon, Christelle Didier, Carl Mitcham, and Mike Murphy