scholarly journals Are Engineering and Social Justice (In)commensurable? A Theoretical Exploration of Macro-Sociological Frameworks

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-82 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jon A. Leydens ◽  
Juan C. Lucena ◽  
Jen Schneider
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Structural Functionalism ◽  
Open Question

The degree to which engineering and social justice as fields of practice are (in)commensurable remains an open question. To illuminate important dimensions of that question, we explore intersections between those fields and two macro-sociological frameworks. Those theoretical frameworks—structural functionalism and social conflict—represent contrasting perspectives on how society should be organized. Specifically, we reveal conceptual alignments between structural functionalism and engineering/engineering education and between social conflict and social justice. Those alignments suggest some salient potential catalysts for tensions between engineering and social justice and provide a useful ideological mirror for reflection by all who are committed to the engineering profession and/or to social justice.

scholarly journals Great Problems of Grand Challenges: Problematizing Engineering’s Understandings of its Role in Society

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Erin Cech ◽  
"Guest Introduction to Special Issue on NAE's Grand Challenges for Engineering"
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Professional Culture ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
New Members ◽  
Double Standards ◽  
Cultural Artifact ◽  
Grand Challenges ◽  
The Social ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. National Academy of Engineering’s Grand Challenges for Engineering report has received a great deal of attention from legislators, policymakers, and educators, but what does it entail for social justice considerations in engineering? This article situates the Grand Challenges report as a cultural artifact of the engineering profession—an artifact that works to reinforce engineering’s professional culture, recruit new members, and reassert engineering’s legitimacy in the 21st century. As such, the Grand Challenges report provides a unique opportunity to understand and critique the role engineering envisions for itself in society. The articles in this special issue of IJESJP identify four central critiques of Grand Challenges: authorial particularism, double standards in engineering’s contributions to these challenges, bracketing of the “social” from “technical” realms, and deterministic definitions of progress. These critiques call for increased reflexivity and broadened participation in how engineers define problems and attempt to solve them.

scholarly journals A Validity and Reliability Study of the Engineering and Engineering Education Attitude Scale (EEAS)

2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Özgen Korkmaz ◽  
Meltem Kösterelioğlu ◽  
Mehmet Kara
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Attitude Scale ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Validity And Reliability ◽  
Confirmatory Factor Analyses ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Two Factors ◽  
Students Attitudes ◽  
The Stability ◽  
Reliable Scale

In literature it was not possible to find a proven valid and reliable scale to measure students’ attitudes towards engineering profession and engineering education. The objective of present research is to provide a valid and reliable scale for measuring students’ attitudes towards engineering profession and engineering education. The sample group is composed of 650 students for the first application and 113 students for the second. In order to detect the validity of the scale, exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, item factor total correlations, corrected correlations and item discriminations were conducted. In order to assess the reliability of the scale, the level of internal consistency and the stability levels were calculated. EEAS a five-point Likert-type scale and includes 17 items with two factors. The analyses provided evidence that EEAS is a valid and reliable scale that can be assuredly used to identify students’ attitudes towards engineering profession and education they receive.

scholarly journals INDUSTRY-BASED CAPSTONE DESIGN PROJECTS: MEMORIAL'S FORTY YEARS EXPERIENCE

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonard M. Lye ◽  
Stephen E. Bruneau
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
The Other ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Undergraduate Program ◽  
Cooperative Model ◽  
Engineering Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Memorial University Of Newfoundland ◽  
Capstone Design

Over the last few decades, the idea that the engineering profession should have a significant input to engineering education has taken a stronghold throughout the world. This is still true today. At Memorial University of Newfoundland, professional contacts were deliberately built into the undergraduate program when it was developed in 1969. First, the program would run on the cooperative model whereby students alternate between industry and university and second, the traditional final-year individual theses would be discarded in favour of team-oriented comprehensive capstone design projects supplied by industry and supervised by professional engineers from industry and academia. Both aspects of the program require considerable interaction between students and faculty on one hand and the practicing engineering community on the other. This has considerably strengthened the ties between industry and academia and has given the students an appreciation of the significance of their work to society in which they live. This paper will highlight some of Memorial’s experiences with industry-based capstone design projects over the last 40 years.

scholarly journals The Social Justice Teaching Collaborative: A Collective Turn Towards Critical Teacher Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-39
Author(s):  
Brittany A Aronson ◽  
Racheal Banda ◽  
Ashley Johnson ◽  
Molly Kelly ◽  
Raquel Radina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Teacher Education ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Critical Race Theory ◽  
Critical Pedagogy ◽  
Inclusive Education ◽  
Collaborative Work ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Theoretical Frameworks ◽  
Critical Whiteness Studies ◽  
Social Justice Teaching

In this article, we share the collaborative curricular work of an interdisciplinary Social Justice Teaching Collaborative (SJTC) from a PWI university. Members of the SJTC worked strategically to center social justice across required courses pre-service teachers are required to take: Introduction to Education, Sociocultural Studies in Education, and Inclusive Education. We share our conceptualization of social justice and guiding theoretical frameworks that have shaped our pedagogy and curriculum. These frameworks include democratic education, critical pedagogy, critical race theory, critical whiteness studies, critical disability studies, and feminist and intersectionality theory. We then detail changes made across courses including examples of readings and assignments. Finally, we conclude by offering reflections, challenges, and lessons learned for collaborative work within teacher education and educational leadership. 

scholarly journals ENHANCEMENT OF TEACHING TECHNIQUES AND STUDENT LEARNING IN A PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY UNDERGRADUATE COURSE

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Mohamed ◽  
A. Fisher ◽  
G. F. Naterer
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Engineering Student ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Teaching Techniques ◽  
Innovative Teaching ◽  
Education Process

Engineering education requires engineering practice, supervision, and experience. This paper examines some of the main elements of engineering education and its challenges in mechanical and manufacturing engineering courses. Innovative teaching and learning methods are discussed for introducing students to the engineering profession. A number of techniques and suggestions are provided to enhance the engineering education process. These include the importance of practice, audio- visual tools, and broadening the students' perspectives of ethical issues in engineering. Student feedback indicates that such an integrated approach enhances their learning. Industry- based projects help them to be better prepared for the graduate engineering profession as well as improve their communication skills. A number of such enhancements to engineering courses are highlighted in this paper.

Revisioning the Engineering Profession

2018 ◽  
pp. 427-442
Author(s):  
Judith Gill ◽  
Mary Ayre ◽  
Julie Mills
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Women Engineers ◽  
Professional Status ◽  
Engineering Profession ◽  
Women In Engineering ◽  
Globalizing World ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
Study Offer

Beginning with a brief account of the value of diversity and inclusivity in a globalizing world, this chapter presents an overview of the current situation of the engineering profession in some English-speaking countries. The starting point addresses the enduring difficulty encountered by attempts to increase and diversify professional engineering. Drawing on a series of studies of engineering education, engineering workplaces and people, both in Australia and beyond, this chapter outlines barriers to entering engineering for anybody other than white mainstream males. Access and retention have long been recognized as serious impediments to increasing numbers of women in engineering. The particular breakthrough in this chapter describes the ways in which some Australian women engineers are working to sustain and enrich their professional status within the workplace by developing strategies that enable them to continue as professionals without diminishing other important features of their life worlds. The implications for all sectors of education, and employers, to emerge from this study offer a basis for redesigning engineering as a more diverse and inclusive profession.

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