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Taking Stock and Looking Forward: Fifteen Years of Research on Gender, Race, and Power in Engineering Studies Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Kacey Beddoes
Published in Engineering Studies (Vol. 16, No. 1, 2024)
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Engineering for Whom? Investigating How Engineering Students Develop and Apply Technoskeptical Thinking Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Jacob Pleasants
College engineering education prioritizes technical knowledge and skills, but there is growing recognition that it must also address the social and societal implications of engineering work. Beyond...
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Engineering Judgment and Education: An Arendtian Account Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Karl Palmås
This article discusses the meaning of judgment in engineering and engineering education, and it does so by introducing the work of political thinker Hannah Arendt. The argument presents Arendt’s no...
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Engineering as Tinkering Care: A Rainwater Harvesting Infrastructure in Cochabamba, Bolivia Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Stefano Archidiacono, Jeltsje Sanne Kemerink-Seyoum, Irene Leonardelli, Carolina Dominguez Guzman, Tavengwa Chitata, Margreet Zwarteveen
In this article, we show how a rainwater harvesting system is made to work. Located at a school in the rural outskirts of Cochabamba, Bolivia, the performance of the system depends on ongoing forms...
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The Politics of the Purdue Spatial Visualization Test of Rotations (PSVT:R) and its Use in Engineering Education Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Kristin A. Bartlett
The Purdue Spatial Visualization Test: Rotations (PSVT:R) is commonly used in engineering education to measure spatial ability in efforts to predict academic or vocational success, or as a placemen...
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The Human Brain Project Between Politics, Science, and Engineering Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Jongheon Kim
This article investigates the unfolding of increased political interest in research infrastructure at the practical level. As a case study, I examine the European Commission’s (EC) Human Brain Proj...
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Early-Career Assignments and Workforce Inequality in Engineering Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-30 Shannon K. Gilmartin, Samantha R. Brunhaver, Sara Jordan-Bloch, Gabriela Gall Rosa, Caroline Simard, Sheri D. Sheppard
Positioned as part of leadership development in many organizations, ‘stretch assignments’ are a type of work assignment that can prove someone’s readiness to advance in their career. Informed by st...
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A Glimpse into the Gendered Dynamics in Industrial Design through the Podcast Discourse Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Kristin A. Bartlett, Stephanie M. Masta
Industrial design is a male-dominated profession, though the reasons for its persistent gender disparity have not been as well-researched as in other STEM disciplines. This work analyzes recent pod...
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The Sole Engineering Genius: A Professional Identity Not Fit for the Purpose of Gender Equality Projects Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Kai Lo Andersson, Catharina Landström
Despite decades of directed efforts gender equality is still a challenge in many university level STEM institutions. Key reasons for this are found in disciplinary and institutional cultures. A cru...
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‘We’re supposed to be at the forefront’: a multiple case study exploring how institutional context shapes engineering diversity and inclusion initiatives Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Stephanie Lezotte
Research suggests the normative culture of engineering perpetuates the marginalization of individuals with excluded identities, contributing to a lack of diversity in academia and the workforce. As...
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Discursive Boundary Work around Gender, Inclusion, and Exclusion in Engineering and Industrial Design Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Kacey Beddoes
Published in Engineering Studies (Vol. 15, No. 3, 2023)
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Moments that Matter: Early-Career Experiences of Diverse Engineers on Different Career Pathways Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Floris van der Marel, Tua Björklund, Sheri Sheppard
While many early-career engineers in the United States leave the field of engineering in the first few years of their careers, we know little of their early professional experiences and reasoning f...
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Language Matters: Writing for Engineering Studies Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-19 Jessica M. Smith
Published in Engineering Studies (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2023)
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In it for the Long Haul: The Groundwork of Interdisciplinary Culture Change in Engineering Education Reform Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-08-11 Annie Y. Patrick, Matthew H. Wisnioski, Lisa McNair, Desen Sevi Ozkan, David Reeping, Thomas L. Martin, Luke Lester, Scott Dunning, Ben Knapp, Liesl Baum Walker, Chelsea E. Haines
How do STS scholars and engineering educators work together over an extended period to make change? In 2015, the National Science Foundation created the Revolutionizing Engineering Departments (RED) initiative to address persistent challenges in engineering education. A distinguishing feature of RED was its focus on culture change via interdisciplinary teams that brought social scientists and engineering
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Battles Over Social Justice, Caste, and Neo-Liberalism: A Review of ‘The Battle for IITs: A Defense of Meritocracy’ Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-22 Yogita Suresh
Published in Engineering Studies (Vol. 15, No. 2, 2023)
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The Makeup of a Makerspace: The Impact of Stereotyping, Self-Efficacy, and Physical Design on Women’s Interactions with an Academic Makerspace Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-06-14 Anastasia M. K. Schauer, Hunter Schaufel, Katherine Fu
This article applies a qualitative ethnographic research approach to explore the perceptions of highly-skilled makers of gender and its role in their makerspace. It explores two research topics – common problems impacting makerspaces and the role of gender in makerspaces – and then analyses the results in the context of their impact on women’s sense of self-efficacy. Various factors relating to the
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Accident Causation Models: The Good the Bad and the Ugly Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Kristian González Barman
The main aim of this paper is to evaluate the evolution of Accident Causation Models (ACMs) from the perspective of philosophy of science. I use insights from philosophy of science to provide an epistemological analysis of the ways in which engineering scientists judge the value of different types of ACMs and to offer normative reflection on these judgements. I review three widespread ACMs and clarify
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Gender, Passion, and ‘Sticky’ Technology in a Voluntaristically-Organized Technology Makerspace Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Andreas Ottemo, Maria Berge, Heather Mendick, Eva Silfver
As ‘open’ and supposedly inclusive informal learning settings that participants visit out of interest and passion, there has been hope that makerspaces will democratize technology and challenge traditional gender patterns in engineering education. Passion for technology has, however, also been shown to be deeply intertwined with the masculinization of engineering. This article explores how this tension
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Introduction to the New Editor-in-Chief Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-09 Jessica M. Smith
Published in Engineering Studies (Vol. 15, No. 1, 2023)
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Teaching students to collaborate with communities: expanding engineering education to create a sustainable future Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Jennifer Hirsch, Ruth Yow, Yi-Chin Sarah Wu
Engineers are crucial to solving the world’s most pressing challenges, but they cannot do it alone. Creating new and more just systems that support people and planet requires that engineers learn to engage with diverse stakeholders as equal partners. This article shares how the Serve-Learn-Sustain (SLS) initiative at the Georgia Institute of Technology has been introducing new approaches to problem-solving
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Framing Intelligent Transport Systems in the Arctic: Reindeer, Fish and the Engineered Road Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-14 Bård Torvetjønn Haugland, Marianne Ryghaug, Roger Andre Søraa
The article explores the relationship between humans and other animals, technology, and engineering practices in a project testing Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in the arctic. Generally, roads are engineered to promote efficiency and predictability for transport. However, in the arctic northern region of Norway, animals sometimes challenge these virtues. Using Goffman’s notion of frames and Callon’s
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Negotiating boundaries: an intersectional collaboration to advance women academics in engineering Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-02-06 Coleen Carrigan, Saejin Kwak Tanguay, Joyce Yen, Julie Simmons Ivy, Cara Margherio, M. Claire Horner-Devine, Eve A. Riskin, Christine S. Grant
This paper draws on data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE-funded LATTICE program (Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: an Intentional Community in Engineering) to examine how a diverse group of women worked across social and professional identities to support early-career women in academic engineering. We used ethnography to elucidate the social dynamics and power relations involved
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Editorial: It’s the End, but the Moment Has Been Prepared for Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2023-01-03
Published in Engineering Studies (Vol. 14, No. 3, 2022)
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Persuasive Communication Practices of Engineers in Cross-Boundary Decision-Making Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-12 Alexandra Coso Strong, Tehya Stockman, Tom Heale, Steven Meyer, Elena Meyerson
ABSTRACT Engineers rely on communication skills to collaborate and make decisions across boundaries. This research seeks to examine an under-explored communication practice of engineers in work environments – persuasive communication. Research on persuasive communication (i.e. practices seeking to influence) includes extensive explorations within laboratory settings and certain contexts (e.g. healthcare
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Engineering Intangibles: Technical Employment in the US Service Economy Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 John A. Alic
Engineering occupations coevolved with industries producing material outputs: mining, construction, manufacturing. Yet wealthy economies have long been moving toward intangible services, the products of industries including finance, wholesale and retail trade, entertainment, travel and transportation, health care, and the public sector (including, e.g. much of education). For the United States the
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Discursive Enactments of Knowledge Production in Engineering Education Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-03 Anders Buch, Loren Mark Ramsay, Hanne Løje
Engineering education is under the sway of wide-ranging dynamics and drifts that have bearing on how education is enacted in relation to the research and innovation obligations of universities. Academic, applied, and third mission drifts seem to configure higher education in new ways. The article sets out to critically explore how knowledge production is discursively enacted in the teaching-research-practice-nexus
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Engineering Epistemology: Between Theory and Practice Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-11-01 Sjoerd Zwart
Published in Engineering Studies (Vol. 14, No. 2, 2022)
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Engineering Laboratory Experiments – a Typology Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-17 Sjoerd Zwart
With the introduction of large commercial industrial laboratories at the end of the nineteenth century, many types of experiments were institutionalized that do not aim at testing hypotheses. This paper builds a typology of experiments in techno-science, by analysing more than two hundred and fifty real-life technical projects. This resulted in four testing types (tests of hypotheses, of designs, of
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Models in Engineering Design as Decision-Making Aids Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-10-01 Claudia Eckert, Rafaela Hillerbrand
Although models and modeling are central to engineering design, they have received much less attention than models or modeling in the philosophy of science. This paper draws on insights from the philosophical literature on models in science to elucidate models in engineering. Many of the apparent differences are a matter of degree. Models in engineering design do not function solely as representational
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How Philosophical Beliefs about Science Affect Science Education in Academic Engineering Programs: the Context of Construction Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-29 Mieke Boon
Science education in academic engineering programs aims to equip students with scientific knowledge and academic skills to solve complex (socio-)technological problems. This article addresses the critical question of whether traditional science courses effectively prepare for this ability. It starts from the premise that scientific approaches to technological design and development require the ability
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Objects as Carriers of Engineering Knowledge Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-09-23 Martin Stacey, Claudia Eckert
The role of previous products in evolutionary engineering design is often neglected. In design discourse, references to objects provide terse expressions of complex information that cannot easily be expressed otherwise. Previous artifacts serve in conjunction with more general engineering knowledge to enable designers and design teams in engineering companies to work in ways that would be very difficult
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Thank You to 2021 Reviewers Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-12
(2022). Thank You to 2021 Reviewers. Engineering Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. i-i.
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Editorial Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 Cyrus C. M. Mody
(2022). Editorial. Engineering Studies: Vol. 14, No. 1, pp. 1-5.
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Gender Equality Paradise Revisited: The Dynamics of Gender Disbalance in Russian Engineering from the Late Soviet Time to the 2010s Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Nikolay Rudenko, Irina Antoshchuk, Roman Maliushkin, Liliia Zemnukhova
The Soviet Union, during the late socialist period, is believed to have achieved impressive progress in making gender equality in STEM come true. The collapse of the Soviet Union and rapid transition to the market economy, accompanied by destruction of industrial production and economic decline, brought unprecedented challenges to the engineering profession. How has the post-socialist transition affected
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Critical Thinking and Judgment on Engineer's Work: Its Integration in Engineering Education Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-03-02 Héctor Gustavo Giuliano, Leandro Ariel Giri, Fernando Gabriel Nicchi, Walter Mario Weyerstall, Lydia Fabiana Ferreira Aicardi, Martín Parselis, Federico Vasen
In the present work we develop some core ideas to strengthen the inclusion of humanistic knowledge in scientific and technical education sustained in the mainstream definition of engineering provided by the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET). In order to achieve such a goal we developed a novel formal definition of the term ‘judgment’ to enlighten the conceptual links between
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Socialization, Tacit Knowledge, and Conceptions of ‘Experience’ among Engineers Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Caitlin D. Wylie, Suk Jun Kim
Engineers value undergraduate research experience as an important step towards becoming an engineer. However, what the word ‘experience’ means in this context is ambiguous. We draw from qualitative interviews with engineering faculty members, graduate students, and undergraduate students to identify four categories of experience that they consider relevant to engineering: (1) practical experience:
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Editorial: Standing on Each Other’s Shoulders Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-09 Cyrus Mody
(2021). Editorial: Standing on Each Other’s Shoulders. Engineering Studies: Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 181-184.
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Client-facing Interprofessional Project Teams: The Role of Engineers’ ‘Situated Judgment’ Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-12-01 Rachel J. Wilde, David Guile
This paper addresses the type of engineering practice associated with ‘client-focused interprofessional project teams’ C-fIPPTs which is a typical pattern of work associated with engineering consulting companies. To do so, the article introduces the concepts of ‘situated judgment’ and ‘immaterial activity’ to the Engineering Studies community. It uses these concepts to demonstrate how engineers with
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Assessing Function Modeling Frameworks: Technical Advantage Predictions as a Conceptual Tool Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Dingmar van Eck, Erik Weber
While function modeling has been around in engineering design research since the 1960s, there have been no systematic, comparative studies devoted to assessing the adequacy of function modeling frameworks in light of engineering design objectives. This systematic assessment and comparison – called benchmarking – is now recognized as a central research issue in current function modeling research, but
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The Making of Engineering Technicians: Ontological Formation in Laboratory Practice Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Christine Winberg
Technicians are largely invisible in everyday life, as are their contributions to science and engineering. In this study, I address the issue of technicians’ invisibility in engineering education. The laboratory plays a central and distinctive role in engineering education, but the role of laboratory technicians in educational contexts is largely absent from the research literature. Technicians are
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The Early Career Years of Engineering: Crossing the Threshold Between Education and Practice Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-09-08
(2021). The Early Career Years of Engineering: Crossing the Threshold Between Education and Practice. Engineering Studies: Vol. 13, The Early Career Years of Engineering: Crossing the Threshold Between Education and Practice, pp. 79-85.
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Performing at the Boundaries: Narratives of Early Career Engineering Practice Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-07-31
The realities of engineering practice remain opaque and constantly evolving, often leaving graduates underprepared for the workplace and employers dissatisfied with new employees. In this study we shed new empirical light on the lived working experiences of early career engineers in large manufacturing firms. We adopt boundary spanning as the primary framework for our research given growing recognition
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Becoming after College: Agency and Structure in Transitions to Engineering Work Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-07-31
Engineering education and engineering studies research has clearly articulated a need for educational reform to help new engineers understand social dimensions of their work and act as change agents. At the same time, while some practicing engineers may be committed to systemic change and service to society, they must also contend with work responsibilities which serve corporate interests and constrain
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Exploring the Social and Cultural Dimensions of Learning for Recent Engineering Graduates during the School-to-Work Transition Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-08-30
The school-to-work transition is a challenging period for engineering graduates. In contrast to most engineering curricula, workplace learning involves organizations, people, cultures, and a range of non-technical and technical elements. Where many researchers have focused on skills gaps across school and work, we focus here on contexts gaps, or shifts in learning processes across organizational settings
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Examining Privilege in Engineering Socialization Through the Stories of Newcomer Engineers Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-08-11
ABSTRACT Prior research has demonstrated that early career socialization experiences play an important role in career outcomes, including learning, performance, satisfaction, and retention. What is not yet well understood, however, is how the organizational socialization experiences of different groups of early career engineers vary and how such variation leads to different career outcomes. By examining
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Innovation, Revolution, Change … and Stasis Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-05-19 Cyrus C. M. Mody
(2021). Innovation, Revolution, Change … and Stasis. Engineering Studies: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 1-5.
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Making a Makerspace: Identified Practices in the Formation of a University Makerspace Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-22 Megan E. Tomko, Robert L. Nagel, Wendy Newstetter, Shaunna F. Smith, Kimberly G. Talley, Julie Linsey
This study seeks to understand the origin accounts of academic makerspaces targeted for engineering students at higher education institutions, as described from the perspective of those who played a formative role in the development of the university’s makerspace. The origin accounts of eight varied university makerspaces are investigated for their practices (or shared strategies) in the formation
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Metaphors of Change: Navigating a Revolution in Engineering Education Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-04-09 Samantha Breslin, Michelle M. Camacho
ABSTRACT Engineering education is often decontextualized, even as it is suffused with metaphoric language and sociocultural norms and beliefs. Efforts to embed social context and sociotechnical content in engineering education are often met with resistance. We contribute to conversations about how to change dominant knowledge regimes by detailing the process by which a team grapples with efforts to
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Thank You to 2020 Reviewers Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-05-19
(2021). Thank You to 2020 Reviewers. Engineering Studies: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. i-i.
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Benoît Godin (1958–2021) Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-03-08 Dominique Vinck
(2021). Benoît Godin (1958–2021) Engineering Studies: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 6-7.
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Women Engineers on Their Way to Leadership: The Role of Social Support Within Engineering Work Cultures Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Miriam Schmitt
Women engineers in Germany rarely reach the higher management levels of companies. The men-dominated work culture in engineering is regarded as one of the reasons for this. In particular, because there is a masculine ‘engineering habitus’, the women’s habitus conflicts with the field-specific rules. However, successful women engineers are able to deal with and adapt to the ‘engineering habitus’ to
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Editorial for issue 12.3: Imagining a Different Past, Present, and Future Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2020-12-06 Cyrus Mody
(2020). Editorial for issue 12.3: Imagining a Different Past, Present, and Future. Engineering Studies: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. 151-156.
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Investigating Culturally-Contextualized Making with the Navajo Nation: Broadening the Normative Making Mentality Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2020-10-07 Daniel Z. Frank, Elliot P. Douglas, Darryl N. Williams, Carl D. Crane
ABSTRACT While the Maker Movement has grown over the past couple of decades, the normative understanding of what making is and who are recognized as makers has been largely defined by a limited perspective. This perspective threatens the very democratization that the Maker Movement has come to represent. To broaden the dominant narrative of making, this paper examines counter-stories in the form of
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Constructing Containment: Thompson-Starrett, the Çeşme Beach Houses, and the Geopolitics of American Engineering in Cold War Turkey Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2020-11-12 Tanfer Emin Tunc, Gokhan Tunc
For the first half of the twentieth century, Thompson-Starrett and Co., a New York-based American engineering, construction, and contracting firm, dominated the building scene. In operation between 1899 and 1968, it was a leader in skyscraper construction and large-scale projects, and literally built the New York skyline. It designed and constructed the tallest skyscraper of the era, the Woolworth
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Correction Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2020-11-03
(2020). Correction. Engineering Studies: Vol. 12, No. 3, pp. I-I.
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Assessing the Leadership Competence of Master of Science in Mining Engineering Students Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2020-09-20 Bernardo Llamas Moya, Rosa M. Chamorro, Carlos Reparaz, Pedro Mora
The study evaluates the leadership capacity of students undertaking a master’s degree in mining engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. During the past four academic years, students undertook two self-perception questionnaires. The first used Dominance, Influence, Steadiness, Conscientiousness (DISC) methodology to classify students according to two parameters: rational–irrational and
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Roboticists’ Imaginaries of Robots for Care: The Radical Imaginary as a Tool for an Ethical Discussion Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2020-09-16 Núria Vallès-Peris, Miquel Domènech
In this paper we analyze imaginaries about care robots using a set of interviews with roboticists. The study of imaginaries – from a notion close to that of Castoriadis’s radical imaginary – is used as a tool to unravel ethical, political and social concerns that care robots entail. From the analysis of the interviews, our results highlight that imaginaries regarding care robots are predominantly sustained
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Guest Editorial – Exclusion and Inclusion in U.S. Engineering Education Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2020-09-11 Kacey Beddoes
(2020). Guest Editorial – Exclusion and Inclusion in U.S. Engineering Education. Engineering Studies: Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 79-81.
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Anyone, but not Everyone: Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Claims of Who Can Do Engineering Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2020-07-17 Jacqueline Rohde, Derrick J. Satterfield, Miguel Rodriguez, Allison Godwin, Geoff Potvin, Lisa Benson, Adam Kirn
This paper examines students’ claims about who can become an engineer and what it takes in engineering culture to be successful. Through longitudinal interviews with 20 undergraduate engineering students, we found that participants’ descriptions of who can ‘do’ engineering were paradoxical. Participants simultaneously maintained that ‘anyone’ could do engineering and that individuals must also possess
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The Making of ‘Ideal’ Electrical and Computer Engineers: A Departmental Document Analysis Eng. Stud. (IF 1.7) Pub Date : 2020-09-06 Rachel E. Friedensen, Sarah Rodriguez, Erin Doran
This article uses document analysis to explore departmental messaging about electrical and computer engineering identity development for undergraduate students at an American research university in the Midwest. We found that these texts collectively produce an image of the ‘ideal’ electrical and computer engineer. This image depicts ‘ideal’ electrical and computer engineers as performing technical