Engineering identities, epistemologies and values. engineering education and practice in context /: engineering education and practice in context. Volume 2 : (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham, Byron Newberry, editors.
• Editors: Hyldgaard Christensen, Steen
• 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 -- Chapter 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 416 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 620.001; Philosophy; Engineering -- Philosophy; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Engineering (General); TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Reference; Engineering -- Philosophy; Technology & Engineering -- Industrial Design -- Product; Philosophy -- Epistemology; Philosophy -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Technical design; Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge; Ethics & moral philosophy; Engineering design; Genetic epistemology; Ethics; Philosophy -- Reference; Philosophy; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319161723; 3319161725; 3319161717; 9783319161716
• Related ISBNs: 9783319161716
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed June 9, 2015).
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