| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 427 pages) |
| Series |
Philosophy of Engineering and Technology, 1879-7210 ; v. 42 |
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Philosophy of engineering and technology ; v. 42. 1879-7210
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| Contents |
General Introduction: The Rationale of Engaging in Conversations between Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities -- Part I. Achievements Resulting from the Conversations -- Conversations on Engineering Challenges -- Institutionalizing Engineering Education Research: Comparing Australia, China, and the United States -- A Snapshot of how Social Considerations Are Currently Being Interpreted and Addressed within Engineering Education and Accreditation -- Part II. Disagreements and Failures in Conversations -- The C.P. Snow Controversy -- Research on Engineers Work at a Turning Point? -- The Two Cultures of Engineering Education: Looking Back and Moving Forward -- Bridging Engineering and Humanities at Techno-Anthropology -- Reflections on the Use of Theory in Engineering Education Research: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Comparisons -- Social Justice at an Irish Practice-based University: In or out of Place -- Engineering Ethics, Social Theory and How We Might Do Better! -- A Critique: Report of the NASEM Committee on Integrating Higher Education in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine -- Part III. Blind Spots and Uncovered Issues -- A Social Science Research Agenda for Engineering Practice -- Globalization is Necessary but Impossible: The Existential Contradictions Engineers (and Everyone Else) are Ignoring -- Social Reproduction and Ranking in French high Level Engineering Schools -- Engineering Myths in China and the United States -- The Need for a Recovery of Engineering -- Engineering with Social Sciences and Humanities: Necessary Partnerships in Facing Contemporary (Un)Sustainability Challenges? -- Whats happening to Organs? Philosophical Insights into Tissue and Organ Engineering -- On Configurations of Knowledge in Engineering |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Includes index |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 27, 2023) |
| Subject |
Engineering -- Social aspects
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Engineering and the humanities.
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Engineering -- Philosophy
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Engineering and the humanities
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Engineering -- Philosophy
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hyldgaard Christensen, Steen, editor.
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Buch, Anders, 1962- editor.
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Conlon, Eddie (Sociologist), editor.
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Didier, Christelle, editor.
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Mitcham, Carl, editor.
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Murphy, Mike (Professor of engineering), editor.
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| ISBN |
9783031116018 |
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3031116011 |
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