International Perspectives on Engineering Education : Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 1

International Perspectives on Engineering Education : Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 1 /

This inclusive cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering education and context. In so doing the book offers a reflection on contextual boundaries with an overall boundary crossing ambition and juxtaposes important cases of critical participation within engineering education with so...

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Other Authors: Hyldgaard Christensen, Steen (Editor), Didier, Christelle (Editor), Jamison, Andrew, 1948- (Editor), Meganck, Martin (Editor), Mitcham, Carl (Editor), Newberry, Byron (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
Series:Philosophy of engineering and technology ; 20.
Subjects:
Philosophy.
Education > Curricula.
Engineering design.
Philosophy of Technology.
Engineering Design.
Curriculum Studies.
Education.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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. Histories, Dynamics and Structures in Engineering Education
  • Section Introduction Atsushi Akera and Erin Cech
  • Chapter 1. A Historical Survey of the Structural Changes in the American System of Engineering Education
  • Atsushi Akera and Bruce Seely
  • Chapter 2. The Role of Research in Academic Drift Processes in European and American Professional Engineering Education outside the Universities; Steen Hyldgaard Christensen and Byron Newberry
  • Chapter 3. Structural Transformations in Higher Engineering Education in Europe; Bernard Delahousse and Wilhelm Bomke
  • Chapter 4. Engineering Brazil: National Engineering Capability at Stake; Édison Renato Silva, Roberto Bartholo, and Domício Proença Jr
  • Chapter 5. Engineering Education in India: A Comprehensive Overview; Balasundaram Subramanian
  • Chapter 6. Engineering Education in Slavic Languages Countries; Maria Kostyszak, Jan Wadowski, and Marcin Zaród
  • Section 2. Ideologies of Engineering Education
  • Section Introduction; Brent K. Jesiek and Christelle Didier; Chapter 7. Confucianism, Marxism, and Pragmatism: The Intellectual Contexts of Engineering Education in China; Qin Zhu and Brent K. Jesiek
  • Chapter 8. Meritocracy, Technocracy, Democracy: Understandings of Racial and Gender Equity in American Engineering Education; Amy Slaton
  • Chapter 9. Challenges of Overcoming Structural Barriers for African American Engineers in the United States and in the African Diaspora; Derrick Hudson
  • Chapter 10. Depoliticization and the Structure of Engineering Education; Erin Cech and Heidi Sherick
  • Section 3. Reforming Engineering Education: Experiences and Cases
  • Section Introduction; Steen Hyldgaard Christensen and Niels Mejlgaard
  • Chapter 11. Bridging Sustainable Community Development and Social Justice ; Juan Lucena
  • Chapter 12. Energy Ethics in Science and Engineering Education; Joseph Herkert, Rachelle Hollander, Clark Miller, Frazier Benya, Chad Monfreda, and Lynette Os-borne
  • Chapter 13. Engineering for the Real World: Diversity, Innovation and Hands-on Learning; Jessica Rolston and Elizabeth Cox
  • Chapter 14. Fostering Hybridity: Teaching about Context in Engineering Education; Andrew Jamison, Niels Mejlgaard, and Jette Egelund Holgaard
  • Chapter 15. Constructions of the Core of Engineering: Technology and Design as Modes of Social Intervention; Ulrik Jørgensen
  • Chapter 16. Transforming Engineering Education: For Technological Innovation and International Development; Tony Marjoram
  • Chapter 17. Appropriate Curricula for Engineering Management Programs: A South African Approach; Alan C. Brent
  • Section 4. Innovative Approaches and New Pathways
  • Section Introduction
  • Dean Nieusma and Louis L. Bucciarelli
  • Chapter 18. Design-based Research: A Strategy for Change in Engineering Education; Anette Kolmos
  • Chapter 19. Engineering Education Research as Engineering Research; Jonte Bernhard
  • Chapter 20. Analyzing Context by Design: Engineering Education Reform via Social-Technical Integration; Dean Nieusma
  • Chapter 21. PDS: Engineering as Problem Definition and Solution
  • Gary Lee Downey
  • Chapter 22. Implementing Social Awareness into Engineering Curricula; Javier Cañavate, Manuel José Lis Arias and Josep Maria Casasús
  • Chapter 23. Engineering as a Socio-technical Process: Case-based Learning from the Example of Wind Technology Development; Matthias Heymann
  • Chapter 24. Getting Context back into Engineering Education; Anders Buch and Louis L. Bucciarelli
  • Chapter 25. Techno-Anthropology and Engineering Education: Between Hybridiza-tion and Social Responsibility; Lars Botin and Tom Børsen.

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