TY - CHAP
T1 - Turning Engineering Green
T2 - Sustainable Development and Engineering Education
AU - Jamison, Andrew
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Since the 1970s, the relations between engineering and development have changed significantly. On the one hand, at a discursive or macro level, there has been a shift in regard to the kind of development to which engineering is meant to contribute, from furthering economic growth to an approach to development that is “sustainable” in one way or another. On the other hand, on a practitioner, or micro level, there has been a change in the kinds of competence that engineers are expected to have in order to be able to contribute to development, due to the emergence of new fields of “technoscience” blurring the boundaries between what was previously considered science and what was previously considered technology. Finally, in between, at an institutional or meso level, there have been significant changes in how engineering work and engineering education are organized. This chapter attempts to provide an overview of these changing relations between engineering and development and distinguishes between three ideal-typical educational responses: a technical, market-oriented approach; a scientific, academic-oriented approach; and a hybrid, socially oriented approach.
AB - Since the 1970s, the relations between engineering and development have changed significantly. On the one hand, at a discursive or macro level, there has been a shift in regard to the kind of development to which engineering is meant to contribute, from furthering economic growth to an approach to development that is “sustainable” in one way or another. On the other hand, on a practitioner, or micro level, there has been a change in the kinds of competence that engineers are expected to have in order to be able to contribute to development, due to the emergence of new fields of “technoscience” blurring the boundaries between what was previously considered science and what was previously considered technology. Finally, in between, at an institutional or meso level, there have been significant changes in how engineering work and engineering education are organized. This chapter attempts to provide an overview of these changing relations between engineering and development and distinguishes between three ideal-typical educational responses: a technical, market-oriented approach; a scientific, academic-oriented approach; and a hybrid, socially oriented approach.
U2 - 10.1007/978-94-007-5282-5_1
DO - 10.1007/978-94-007-5282-5_1
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-94-007-5281-8
T3 - Philosophy of Engineering and Technology
SP - 7
EP - 22
BT - Engineering, Development and Philosophy
A2 - Hyldgaard Christensen, Steen
A2 - Mitcham, Carl
A2 - Li, Bocong
A2 - An, Yanming
PB - Springer Science+Business Media
ER -