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| Author | : Davinder Anand |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2016-08-25 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780984627479 |
Engineering For Social Change examines the changing face of engineering, its role as a catalyst for social change, the unintended consequences of engineering successes, the social impact of future technologies and the engineer of the future.
| Author | : Caroline Baillie |
| Publisher | : Purdue University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2012-01-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 161249157X |
This book is aimed at engineering academics worldwide, who are attempting to bring social justice into their work and practice, or who would like to but don't know where to start. This is the first book dedicated specifically to University professionals on Engineering and Social Justice, an emerging and exciting area of research and practice. An international team of multidisciplinary authors share their insights and invite and inspire us to reformulate the way we work. Each chapter is based on research and yet presents the outcomes of scholarly studies in a user oriented style. We look at all three areas of an engineering academic's professional role: research, teaching and community engagement. Some of our team have created classes which help students think through their role as engineering practitioners in society. Others are focusing their research on outcomes that are socially just and for client groups who are marginalized and powerless. Yet others are consciously engaging local community groups and exploring ways in which the University might 'serve' communities at home and globally from a post-development perspective. We are additionally concerned with the student cohort and who has access to engineering studies. We take a broad social and ecological justice perspective to critique existing and explore alternative practices. This book is a handbook for any engineering academic, who wishes to develop engineering graduates as well as technologies and practices that are non-oppressive, equitable and engaged. It is also an essential reader for anyone studying in this interdisciplinary juncture of social science and engineering. Scholars using a critical theoretical lens on engineering practice and education, from Science and Technology Studies, History and Philosophy of Engineering, Engineering and Science Education will find this text invaluable.
| Author | : Cynthia Rayner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 293 |
| Release | : 2021-10-12 |
| Genre | : Social change |
| ISBN | : 0198857454 |
The issues of poverty, inequality, racial injustice, and climate change have never been more pressing or paralyzing. Current approaches to social change, which rely on linear thinking and traditional power dynamics to 'solve' social problems, are not helping. In fact, they may only beentrenching the status quo.Systemic social challenges produce bewildering results when we try to solve them due to their complexity, scale, and depth. While strategies to tackle complexity and scale have received significant attention and investment, challenges that arise from deeply-held beliefs, values, and assumptions thatno longer serve us well have been largely overlooked. This book draws on stories of committed social changemakers to uncover a set of principles and practices for social change that dramatically depart from the industrial approach. Rather than delivering solutions or being lured by grander visionsof 'systems change', these principles and practices focus on the process of change itself. Simple yet profound, these stories distil a timely set of lessons for leaders, scholars, and policymakers on how connection, context, and power sit at the heart of the change process, ensuring broader agencyfor people and communities while building social systems that are responsive in a rapidly-changing world.
| Author | : Eswaran Subrahmanian |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2018-11-12 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 3319911341 |
This open access book examines how the social sciences can be integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting unique perspectives on the interplay between engineering and social science. Motivated by the report by the Commission on Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Association of Arts and Sciences, which emphasizes the importance of social sciences and Humanities in technical fields, the essays and papers collected in this book were presented at the NSF-funded workshop ‘Engineering a Better Future: Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences and Innovation’, which brought together a singular collection of people, topics and disciplines. The book is split into three parts: A. Meeting at the Middle: Challenges to educating at the boundaries covers experiments in combining engineering education and the social sciences; B. Engineers Shaping Human Affairs: Investigating the interaction between social sciences and engineering, including the cult of innovation, politics of engineering, engineering design and future of societies; and C. Engineering the Engineers: Investigates thinking about design with papers on the art and science of science and engineering practice.
| Author | : Juan Lucena |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 2013-05-24 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9400763506 |
Hoping to help transform engineering into a more socially just field of practice, this book offers various perspectives and strategies while highlighting key concepts and themes that help readers understand the complex relationship between engineering education and social justice. This volume tackles topics and scopes ranging from the role of Buddhism in socially just engineering to the blinding effects of ideologies in engineering to case studies on the implications of engineered systems for social justice. This book aims to serve as a framework for interventions or strategies to make social justice more visible in engineering education and enhance scholarship in the emerging field of Engineering and Social Justice (ESJ). This creates a ‘toolbox’ for engineering educators and students to make social justice a central theme in engineering education.
| Author | : Donna M. Riley |
| Publisher | : Morgan & Claypool Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 165 |
| Release | : 2008 |
| Genre | : Electronic books |
| ISBN | : 1598296264 |
The profession of engineering in the United States has historically served the status quo, feeding an ever-expanding materialistic and militaristic culture, remaining relatively unresponsive to public concerns, and without significant pressure for change from within. This book calls upon engineers to cultivate a passion for social justice and peace and to develop the skill and knowledge set needed to take practical action for change within the profession. Because many engineers do not receive education and training that support the kinds of critical thinking, reflective decision-making, and effective action necessary to achieve social change, engineers concerned with social justice can feel powerless and isolated as they remain complicit. Utilizing techniques from radical pedagogies of liberation and other movements for social justice, this book presents a roadmap for engineers to become empowered and engage one another in a process of learning and action for social justice and peace.
| Author | : Davinder Anand |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : |
| Release | : 2022-07-04 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9780977729548 |
We begin with a review of the broad spectrum of areas discussed in our first Engineering for Social Change book. Then we move on to an examination of key emerging technologies in areas that are already showing evidence of unintended consequences, and where significant social impacts could occur in the near future. Virtual reality, AI, bionics, IoT and others are beginning to change the way society interacts, even at a basic human level. How will we change as a society when new ideas like the metaverse, NFTs, cryptocurrency and deepfakes become commonplace, and our connections become virtual and less concrete in nature? It is emphasized that we can no longer focus engineering design with just technical considerations, but societal needs must be strongly integrated into design courses for engineers. The consideration of philanthropy and nonprofits by engineering students has gotten special attention, which has been enhanced by our continued connection with the School of Public Policy. After a considerable amount of discussion, we decided to touch on a topic mostly ignored in the engineering curriculum. That is the participation of Black people in technology. The issue of Black Lives Matter and the widespread protests in 2020 have forced us to examine the long-standing opportunities denied to this community. We review a brief history of how we got here and end the chapter recognizing some notable role models important for future success. As a companion to this book, Dylan Hazelwood wrote The Technological Manipulation of Humanity. The reader need not to be a technologist or scientist to enjoy the book, which is a collection of vignettes examining how technology is impacting our lives in sometimes unseen ways. The book ends with a discussion of the tremendous gifts and conflicts of technology, and poses the perennial question; is there any way to ensure that technological developments increase our happiness?
| Author | : William Richard Black |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 598 |
| Release | : 2002-11-29 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9780253340672 |
Transportation research has traditionally been dominated by engineering and logistics research approaches. This book integrates social, economic, and behavioral sciences into the transportation field. As its title indicates, emphasis is on socioeconomic changes, which increasingly govern the development of the transportation sector. The papers presented here originated at a conference on Social Change and Sustainable Transport held at the University of California at Berkeley in March 1999, under the auspices of the European Science Foundation and the National Science Foundation. The contributors, who represent a range of disciplines, including geography and regional science, economics, political science, sociology, and psychology, come from twelve different countries. Their subjects cover the consequences of environmentally sustainable transportation vs. the "business-as-usual" status quo, the new phenomenon of "edge cities," automobile dependence as a social problem, the influence of leisure or discretionary travel and of company cars, the problems of freight transport, the future of railroads in Europe, the imposition of electronic road tolls, potential transport benefits of e-commerce, and the electric car.
| Author | : Jon A. Leydens |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2017-12-18 |
| Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
| ISBN | : 1118757300 |
Shows how the engineering curriculum can be a site for rendering social justice visible in engineering, for exploring complex socio-technical interplays inherent in engineering practice, and for enhancing teaching and learning Using social justice as a catalyst for curricular transformation, Engineering Justice presents an examination of how politics, culture, and other social issues are inherent in the practice of engineering. It aims to align engineering curricula with socially just outcomes, increase enrollment among underrepresented groups, and lessen lingering gender, class, and ethnicity gaps by showing how the power of engineering knowledge can be explicitly harnessed to serve the underserved and address social inequalities. This book is meant to transform the way educators think about engineering curricula through creating or transforming existing courses to attract, retain, and motivate engineering students to become professionals who enact engineering for social justice. Engineering Justice offers thought-provoking chapters on: why social justice is inherent yet often invisible in engineering education and practice; engineering design for social justice; social justice in the engineering sciences; social justice in humanities and social science courses for engineers; and transforming engineering education and practice. In addition, this book: Provides a transformative framework for engineering educators in service learning, professional communication, humanitarian engineering, community service, social entrepreneurship, and social responsibility Includes strategies that engineers on the job can use to advocate for social justice issues and explain their importance to employers, clients, and supervisors Discusses diversity in engineering educational contexts and how it affects the way students learn and develop Engineering Justice is an important book for today’s professors, administrators, and curriculum specialists who seek to produce the best engineers of today and tomorrow.
| Author | : John Brooks Slaughter |
| Publisher | : JHU Press |
| Total Pages | : 449 |
| Release | : 2015-12-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1421418150 |
How can academic institutions, corporations, and policymakers foster African American participation and advancement in engineering? For much of America’s history, African Americans were discouraged or aggressively prevented from becoming scientists and engineers. Those who did enter STEM fields found that their inventions and discoveries were often neither recognized nor valued. Even today, particularly in the field of engineering, the participation of African American men and women is shockingly low, and some evidence indicates that the situation might be getting worse. In Changing the Face of Engineering, twenty-four eminent scholars address the underrepresentation of African Americans in engineering from a wide variety of disciplinary and professional perspectives while proposing workable classroom solutions and public policy initiatives. They combine robust statistical analyses with personal narratives of African American engineers and STEM instructors who, by taking evidenced-based approaches, have found success in graduating African American engineers. Changing the Face of Engineering argues that the continued underrepresentation of African Americans in engineering impairs the ability of the United States to compete successfully in the global marketplace. This volume will be of interest to STEM scholars and students, as well as policymakers, corporations, and higher education institutions.
