Abstract
What is an engineer? Or maybe better: how are engineers, and how are they “gebilded” in order to be able to be called engineers? In order to shed some light on this question we could ask: How is the relation between engineering and the making of an engineer, or the relation between engineering and Bildung. In this chapter, this relation in investigated. In the first part, I present three engineers and their careers. In the second part, the concept of Bildung is analyzed, and in the third part, it is the conceptual relation between Bildung, engineers, and engineering work that is of concern.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Engineering science, skills, and Bildung |
| Editors | Jens Christensen, Lars Bo Henriksen, Anette Kolmos |
| Place of Publication | Aalborg |
| Publisher | Aalborg Universitetsforlag |
| Publication date | 2006 |
| Pages | 43-60 |
| ISBN (Print) | 8773077658 |
| Publication status | Published - 2006 |