Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values: Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 2

✍ Scribed by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham, Byron Newberry (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 442
• Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology 21
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-8
The Dialectics of Engineering....Pages 9-22
‘Nuts and Bolts and People’ Gender Troubled Engineering Identities....Pages 23-40
Designing the Identities of Engineers....Pages 41-64
Engineering as Profession: Some Methodological Problems in Its Study....Pages 65-79
Engineering Ethics and Engineering Identities: Crossing National Borders....Pages 81-98
Identifying Engineering: The Need for Better Numbers on Human and Related Resources and Policy....Pages 99-119
Front Matter....Pages 121-127
Studying Engineering Practice....Pages 129-145
Design Methodology and Engineering Design....Pages 147-159
The Epistemological Basis of Engineering, and Its Reflection in the Modern Engineering Curriculum....Pages 161-178
The Tension Between Science and Engineering Design....Pages 179-198
Effi ciency Animals: Efficiency as an Engineering Value....Pages 199-214
Front Matter....Pages 215-220
On the Normativity of Professionalism....Pages 221-234
Engineer’s Ecoskepticism as an Ethical Problem....Pages 235-250
Engineering as a Technological Way of World-Making....Pages 251-269
The Nuclear Pipeline: Integrating Nuclear Power and Climate Change....Pages 271-286
Societal Implications of the Smart Grid: Challenges for Engineering....Pages 287-306
From Engineering Ethics to Engineering Politics....Pages 307-324
Guiding Gulliver: Challenges for Ethical Engineering....Pages 325-340
Front Matter....Pages 341-346
Engineers Make Their Own Context: Vision-Making in the Profession....Pages 347-359
Context Versus Processes....Pages 361-367
Front Matter....Pages 341-346
Engineering Action in Micro-, Meso-, and Macro-contexts....Pages 369-379
Substantive and Procedural Contexts of Engineering Design....Pages 381-400
The De-contextualising of Engineering: A Myth or a Misunderstanding....Pages 401-416

✦ Subjects

Philosophy of Technology; Engineering Design; Epistemology; Ethics