Engineering in Crisis – Critical Reflection Writing Prompt

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 117
Author(s):  
Andrea Haverkamp
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Oral History ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Prose Fiction ◽  
August 15Th ◽  
Academic Barriers ◽  
File Upload ◽  
Writing Prompt ◽  
Engineering Practices

Writing Prompt sent to the International Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace community and other engineering education sub-communitiess (primarily in North America: Our objective is to capture your thoughts, experiences, and responses to intersecting crises of COVID-19, white supremacy, anti-blackness, police violence, late capitalism, technologies and engineerings, power formations, state violence, academia, and engineering education over the past year. We wish to break the mould and create a space for the entire engineering community - students, educators, and professionals to share varied perspectives. Being oral history, this project is free from the usual academic barriers or gatekeeping. No citations needed if you do not wish to do so. While we aim to keep editorial interference at a minimum, we do not intend to include entries that (in our aesthetic and axiological judgement) can cause significant structural, cultural, or emotional harm to marginalised communities. We recognise that such filtering is hard to fully specify. The "objectives" statement above could be a guide for providing you a sense for what we are looking for. Entries should align with IJESJP's focus on engendering dialog on engineering practices that enhance gender, racial, class, and cultural equity and are democratic, non-oppressive, and non-violent. We acknowledge that even this filter limits the expression of particular forms of knowing and being. Our commitments are available here: http://esjp.org/about-esjp/our-commitments We are inspired by the way stories are told and archived through oral history, and feel the need to capture these stories before they become lost in the flux of our ongoing crises. Such history can be a story, anger and frustrations through rant, back of the envelope ideas and theories, poems, prose, fiction, critiques. This history is anything and everything you wish to document in time. Instructions: Please provide the following information by August 15th, 2021. Entry. Title, optional File upload, optional. Name, gender pronouns, and affiliations of authors Do you want your submission anonymous?

Integrating Ethics into Engineering Education

2015 ◽  
pp. 159-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chunfang Zhou ◽  
Kathrin Otrel-Cass ◽  
Tom Børsen
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Learning Environments ◽  
Risk Perceptions ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Engineering Design Problems ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Integrating Ethics ◽  
Engineering Practices

In this chapter, the authors aim to explore the necessity of teaching ethics as part of engineering education based on the gaps between learning “hard” knowledge and “soft” skills in the current educational system. They discuss why the nature of engineering practices makes it difficult to look beyond dealing with engineering design problems, identify the difference between knowledge and risk perceptions, and how to manage such tensions. They also explore the importance of developing moral responsibilities of engineers and the need to humanize technology and engineering, as technological products are not value neutral. With a focus on Problem-Based Learning (PBL), the authors examine why engineers need to incorporate ethical codes in their decision-making process and professional tasks. Finally, they discuss how to build creative learning environments that can support attaining the objectives of engineering education.

scholarly journals Engineering practices and engineering education: prolegomena to the model of the future

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 03026
Author(s):  
Nadezda Bagdasaryan ◽  
Raisa Petruneva ◽  
Valentina Vasilyeva ◽  
Olga Toporkova
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Social Engineering ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Engineering Problems ◽  
The Future ◽  
Engineering Practices

A theoretical and methodological analysis of the content characteristics of engineering education correlated with the challenges of the fourth industrial revolution (Industry 4.0) showed that trends of the third technological revolution dominate in the current university engineers' training model. One of the effective tools for the formation of a university model for training an engineer of the future could be the ideas of using educational social engineering problems based on elements of socio-humanitarian expertise of engineering design decisions. An optimally designed model of an engineer of the future will improve the quality of training and, ultimately, avoid the negative (fatal) consequences of insufficiently substantiated engineering design decisions.

The Cultural Politics of Aspiration: Family Photography’s Mixed Feelings

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 152-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thy Phu ◽  
Elspeth H Brown
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Recent Work ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
Camera Network ◽  
The Family ◽  
Mixed Feelings ◽  
Black Queer ◽  
The Relationship

This article describes the relationship between family photography, oral history, and feeling. The authors explore questions about affect and family photography in relationship to black, queer relationality and to Asian, diasporic subjectivities. They argue that the affective modality of family photography for marginalized subjects is that of ‘mixed feelings’, which they analyze through a focus on ‘aspiration’ as central to the visual and affective discourses of family photography, oral history, and diaspora. Working with recent work by Christina Sharpe and Tina Campt, the authors describe aspiration within family photography as indexing both the normative temporalities of capitalist futurity and, at the same time, a utopian technology of black futurity that enables the making of necessary futures outside of white supremacy and heteronormativity. The research is part of a larger photography and oral history project, The Family Camera Network, which the article describes.

An Abolitionism Worthy of the Name

2018 ◽  
pp. 239-258
Author(s):  
Lisa Guenther
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
The United States ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Angela Davis ◽  
Construction Of Whiteness ◽  
Prison Abolition ◽  
Whiteness As Property ◽  
Civil Death

In Derrida’s lectures on the death penalty, the United States figures as “both exemplary and exceptional." Derrida acknowledges the racist structure of state violence in the United States, but he does not develop a critical analysis of race or racism. Drawing on the work of incarcerated intellectual Mumia Abu-Jamal, critical race theorists Cheryl Harris and Angela Davis, and contemporary prison abolitionists, this chapter argues that racism is an issue, not only in the particular context of the United States, but also for the logic of the death penalty that Derrida proposes to deconstruct. Derrida’s own account of indemnity, interest, and condemnation is incomplete without a supplementary analysis of black civil death and the construction of whiteness as property. In conclusion, this chapter argues that an abolitionism worthy of the name would have to move beyond the death penalty, towards the (im)possible project of prison abolition and the abolition of white supremacy.

scholarly journals Comparative Analysis of Engineering Curricula for Alignment with 21st Century Engineering Practices

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Lazurko ◽  
Patrick Miller ◽  
Dena Ghoneim
Keyword(s):  
Best Practices ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Work Experience ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Engineering Curriculum ◽  
Leadership Programs ◽  
Canadian Universities ◽  
Cross Cultural Communication ◽  
Engineering Practices

The vast engineering challenges of the 21st century and the unique position of engineers as decision makers, conveners, and influencers has created a need for a directional shift in the content and teaching methods used in Canadian engineering education.Both Canadian and international universities were evaluated based on nine criteria deemed relevant and important to the evolution of engineering education by Engineers Without Borders Canada. These include overall vision and direction of the engineering faculty and university, interdisciplinary opportunities, leadership programs and recognition, topics in technology and society, innovation in curriculum content or delivery, a growing understanding of globalization, cross cultural communication and project management, and a direct connection between work experience and curriculum.Results have shown that many Canadian universities are strong overall, while some universities have strengths in a few areas. These results can be utilized and shared as best practices. The international program evaluation showed very diverse results, some of which can be adapted and utilized in Canadian engineering curriculum. These results can be employed as many entities collectively move forward to develop and reinvent engineering education in the 21st century.

Steeped in the Blood of Racism

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nancy K. Bristow
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
White Supremacy ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Black College ◽  
State University ◽  
Kent State University ◽  
State College ◽  
Civil Suit ◽  
Traditional Patterns

This book recounts the death of two young African Americans, Phillip Gibbs and James Earl Green and the wounding of twelve others when white police and highway patrolmen opened fire on students in front of a dormitory at Jackson State College, a historically black college (HBCU) in May 1970. It situates this story in the broader events of the civil rights and black power eras, emphasizing the role white supremacy played in causing police violence and shaping the aftermath. A state school controlled by an all-white Board of Trustees, Jackson State had a reputation as a conservative campus where students faced expulsion for activism. By 1970, students were pushing back, responding to the evolving movement for African American freedom. Law enforcement attacked this changing campus, reflecting both traditional patterns of repression and the new logic and racially coded rhetoric of “law and order.” After, the victims and their survivors struggled unsuccessfully to find justice or a place in the nation’s public memory. Despite multiple investigations, two grand juries, and a civil suit, no officers were charged, no restitution was paid, and no apologies were offered. Overshadowed by the shooting of white students at Kent State University ten days earlier, the violence was routinely misunderstood as similar in cause, a story that evaded the essential role of race in causing it. Few besides the local African American community proved willing to remember. This book provides crucial context for situating the ongoing crisis of state violence against people of color in its long history.

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