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Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values [electronic resource] : Engineering Education and Practice in Context, Volume 2 / edited by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham, Byron Newberry.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Philosophy of Engineering and Technology ; 21Publication details: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2015.Description: 1 online resource (XXXIV, 416 p. 18 illus.)ISBN:
  • 9783319161723
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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. Engineering Identities -- Section Introduction; Tony Marjoram and Mike Murphy -- Chapter 1. Dialectics of Engineering; Byron Newberry -- Chapter 2. 'Nuts and Bolts and People'. Gender-Troubled Engineering Identities; Wendy Faulkner -- Chapter 3. Designing the Identities of Engineers; Mike Murphy, Shannon Chance and Eddie Conlon -- Chapter 4. Engineering as Profession: Some Methodological Problems in its Study; Michael Da-vis -- Chapter 5. Engineering Ethics and Engineering Identities: Crossing National Borders; Gary Lee Downey, Juan C. Lucena and Carl Mitcham -- Chapter 6. Identifying Engineering: The Need for Better Numbers on Human and Related Resources and Policy; Tony Marjoram -- Section 2. The Epistemological Basis of Engineering -- Section Introduction; Anders Buch and Stig Andur Peder-sen -- Chapter 7. Studying Engineering Practice; Anders Buch -- Chapter 8. Design Methodology and Engineering Design: From Technical Problem Solving to Social Exploration; Pieter E. Vermaas -- ChapterĀ 9. The Epistemological Basis of Engineering: and its Reflection in the Modern Engineering Curriculum; William Grimson and Mike Murphy -- Chapter 10. The Tension between Science and Engineering Design; Stig Andur Pedersen -- Chapter 11. Efficiency Animals: Efficiency as an Engineering Value; Byron Newberry -- Section 3. Engineering Values and Normativities -- Section Introduction; Jen Schneider and Wayne Ambler -- Chapter 12. On the Normativity of Professionalism; Martin Meganck -- Chapter 13. Engineer's Ecoskepticism as an Ethical Problem; Christelle Didier and Kristoff Talin -- Chapter 14. Engineering as a Technological Way of World-making; Sylvain Lavelle -- Chapter 15. The Nuclear Pipeline: Integrating Nuclear Power and Climate Change; Jen Schneider, Abraham S. D. Tidwell, and Savannah Avgerinos Fitzwater -- Chapter 16. Societal Implications of the Emerging Smart Grid: Challenges for Engineering; Joseph Herkert and Timothy Kostyk -- Chapter 17. From Engineering Ethics to Engineering Politics; Carl Mitcham and Wang Nan -- Chapter 18. Guiding Gulliver: Challenges for Ethical Engineering; Wayne Ambler -- Section 4. Competing Contexts in Engineering -- Section Introduction; Matthew Wisnioski and William Grimson -- Chapter 19. Engineers Make Their Own Context: Vision-Making in the Profession; Matthew Wisnioski -- Chapter 20. Process versus Context; Joseph C. Pitt -- Chapter 21. Engineering Activity as Text in Micro-Meso-Macro Contexts; Li Bocong -- Chapter 22. Substantive and Procedural Contexts of Engineering Design; Sjoerd Zwart and Peter Kroes -- Chapter 23. The De-contextualising of Engineering: A Myth or a Misunderstanding; William Grimson -- Author Biographies.
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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. Engineering Identities -- Section Introduction; Tony Marjoram and Mike Murphy -- Chapter 1. Dialectics of Engineering; Byron Newberry -- Chapter 2. 'Nuts and Bolts and People'. Gender-Troubled Engineering Identities; Wendy Faulkner -- Chapter 3. Designing the Identities of Engineers; Mike Murphy, Shannon Chance and Eddie Conlon -- Chapter 4. Engineering as Profession: Some Methodological Problems in its Study; Michael Da-vis -- Chapter 5. Engineering Ethics and Engineering Identities: Crossing National Borders; Gary Lee Downey, Juan C. Lucena and Carl Mitcham -- Chapter 6. Identifying Engineering: The Need for Better Numbers on Human and Related Resources and Policy; Tony Marjoram -- Section 2. The Epistemological Basis of Engineering -- Section Introduction; Anders Buch and Stig Andur Peder-sen -- Chapter 7. Studying Engineering Practice; Anders Buch -- Chapter 8. Design Methodology and Engineering Design: From Technical Problem Solving to Social Exploration; Pieter E. Vermaas -- ChapterĀ 9. The Epistemological Basis of Engineering: and its Reflection in the Modern Engineering Curriculum; William Grimson and Mike Murphy -- Chapter 10. The Tension between Science and Engineering Design; Stig Andur Pedersen -- Chapter 11. Efficiency Animals: Efficiency as an Engineering Value; Byron Newberry -- Section 3. Engineering Values and Normativities -- Section Introduction; Jen Schneider and Wayne Ambler -- Chapter 12. On the Normativity of Professionalism; Martin Meganck -- Chapter 13. Engineer's Ecoskepticism as an Ethical Problem; Christelle Didier and Kristoff Talin -- Chapter 14. Engineering as a Technological Way of World-making; Sylvain Lavelle -- Chapter 15. The Nuclear Pipeline: Integrating Nuclear Power and Climate Change; Jen Schneider, Abraham S. D. Tidwell, and Savannah Avgerinos Fitzwater -- Chapter 16. Societal Implications of the Emerging Smart Grid: Challenges for Engineering; Joseph Herkert and Timothy Kostyk -- Chapter 17. From Engineering Ethics to Engineering Politics; Carl Mitcham and Wang Nan -- Chapter 18. Guiding Gulliver: Challenges for Ethical Engineering; Wayne Ambler -- Section 4. Competing Contexts in Engineering -- Section Introduction; Matthew Wisnioski and William Grimson -- Chapter 19. Engineers Make Their Own Context: Vision-Making in the Profession; Matthew Wisnioski -- Chapter 20. Process versus Context; Joseph C. Pitt -- Chapter 21. Engineering Activity as Text in Micro-Meso-Macro Contexts; Li Bocong -- Chapter 22. Substantive and Procedural Contexts of Engineering Design; Sjoerd Zwart and Peter Kroes -- Chapter 23. The De-contextualising of Engineering: A Myth or a Misunderstanding; William Grimson -- Author Biographies.

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