Engineering and Social Justice (Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, and Society) - Softcover
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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. Table of contents: What Do we Mean by Social Justice? / Mindsets in Engineering / Engineering and Social Injustice / Toward a More Socially Just Engineering / Turning Knowledge into Action: Strategies for Change / Parting Lessons for the Continuing Struggle
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<p>Caroline Baillie was recently named Chair of Engineering Education for the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Mathematics. Caroline co-founded the global ‘Engineering and Social Justice’ network and applies this lens to her own technical work on low cost natural fibre composites for developing countries. Her not-for-profit organization ‘Waste for Life' works to create poverty-reducing solutions to environmental issues. Caroline has more than 160 publications in Materials Engineering and Engineering Education including 18 books in Engineering and Engineering Education including practice and development, teaching and supervision, science and engineering knowledge development, education and social justice. </p>||<p>Alice Pawley is an assistant professor in the School of Engineering Education and an affiliate faculty member in the Women’s Studies Program at Purdue University. Alice has a B.Eng. in chemical engineering from McGill University, and an M.S. and Ph.D. in industrial engineering with a Ph.D. minor in women’s studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is co-PI on Purdue University’s ADVANCE initiative.</p>|< p>Donna Riley is Associate Professor and a founding faculty member in the Picker Engineering Program at Smith College, the first accredited engineering program at a U.S. women’s college. Donna received her Ph.D. in engineering and public policy from Carnegie Mellon University and her B.S.E. in chemical engineering from Princeton University.</p
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