Engineering identities, epistemologies and values [electronic resource] : engineering education and practice in context. Volume 2 / Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham, Byron Newberry, editors.
Hyldgaard Christensen, Steen, editor.
2015
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Title Engineering identities, epistemologies and values [electronic resource] : engineering education and practice in context. Volume 2 / Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham, Byron Newberry, editors.
ISBN 9783319161723 electronic book
3319161725 electronic book
9783319161716
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16172-3
Published Cham : Springer, 2015.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 416 pages) : illustrations.
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-319-16172-3 doi
Call Number TA157
Dewey Decimal Classification 620.001
Summary This second companion volume on engineering studies considers engineering practice including contextual analyses of engineering identity, epistemologies, and values. Key overlapping questions examine such issues as an engineering identity, engineering self-understandings enacted in the professional world, distinctive characters of engineering knowledge, and how engineering science and engineering design interact in practice. Authors bring with them perspectives from their institutional homes in Europe, North America, Australia, and Asia. The volume includes 24 contributions by more than 30 authors from engineering, the social sciences, and the humanities. Additional issues the chapters scrutinize include prominent norms of engineering, how they interact with the values of efficiency or environmental sustainability. A concluding set of articles considers the meaning of context more generally by asking if engineers create their own contexts or are they created by contexts. Taken as a whole, this collection of original scholarly work is unique in its broad, multidisciplinary consideration of the changing character of engineering practice.
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Series Philosophy of engineering and technology ; volume 21.
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General Introduction. The Engineering
Context Nexus: A Perennial Discourse; Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham and Byron Newberry
Section 1. Engineering Identities
Section Introduction; Tony Marjoram and Mike Murphy
Chapter 1. Dialectics of Engineering; Byron Newberry
Chapter 2. ?Nuts and Bolts and People?. Gender-Troubled Engineering Identities; Wendy Faulkner
Chapter 3. Designing the Identities of Engineers; Mike Murphy, Shannon Chance and Eddie Conlon
Chapter 4. Engineering as Profession: Some Methodological Problems in its Study; Michael Da-vis
Chapter 5. Engineering Ethics and Engineering Identities: Crossing National Borders; Gary Lee Downey, Juan C. Lucena and Carl Mitcham
Chapter 6. Identifying Engineering: The Need for Better Numbers on Human and Related Resources and Policy; Tony Marjoram
Section 2. The Epistemological Basis of Engineering
Section Introduction; Anders Buch and Stig Andur Peder-sen
Chapter 7. Studying Engineering Practice; Anders Buch
Chapter 8. Design Methodology and Engineering Design: From Technical Problem Solving to Social Exploration; Pieter E. Vermaas
Chapter 9. The Epistemological Basis of Engineering: and its Reflection in the Modern Engineering Curriculum; William Grimson and Mike Murphy
Chapter 10. The Tension between Science and Engineering Design; Stig Andur Pedersen
Chapter 11. Efficiency Animals: Efficiency as an Engineering Value; Byron Newberry
Section 3. Engineering Values and Normativities
Section Introduction; Jen Schneider and Wayne Ambler
Chapter 12. On the Normativity of Professionalism; Martin Meganck
Chapter 13. Engineer?s Ecoskepticism as an Ethical Problem; Christelle Didier and Kristoff Talin
Chapter 14. Engineering as a Technological Way of World-making; Sylvain Lavelle
Chapter 15. The Nuclear Pipeline: Integrating Nuclear Power and Climate Change; Jen Schneider, Abraham S. D. Tidwell, and Savannah Avgerinos Fitzwater
Chapter 16. Societal Implications of the Emerging Smart Grid: Challenges for Engineering; Joseph Herkert and Timothy Kostyk
Chapter 17. From Engineering Ethics to Engineering Politics; Carl Mitcham and Wang Nan
Chapter 18. Guiding Gulliver: Challenges for Ethical Engineering; Wayne Ambler
Section 4. Competing Contexts in Engineering
Section Introduction; Matthew Wisnioski and William Grimson
Chapter 19. Engineers Make Their Own Context: Vision-Making in the Profession; Matthew Wisnioski
Chapter 20. Process versus Context; Joseph C. Pitt
Chapter 21. Engineering Activity as Text in Micro-Meso-Macro Contexts; Li Bocong
Chapter 22. Substantive and Procedural Contexts of Engineering Design; Sjoerd Zwart and Peter Kroes
Chapter 23. The De-contextualising of Engineering: A Myth or a Misunderstanding; William Grimson
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