Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities

This book presents a critical examination of conversations between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities asking whether their conversations have come of age. These conversations are important because ultimately their outcome have real world consequences in engineering education and practice, and for the social and material world we inhabit. Taken together the 21 chapters provide scholarly-argued responses to the following questions.

General Introduction: The Rationale of Engaging in Conversations between Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities.- Conversations on Engineering Challenges.- Institutionalizing Engineering Education Research: Comparing Australia, China, and the United States.- A Snapshot of how 'Social' Considerations Are Currently Being Interpreted and Addressed within Engineering Education and Accreditation.- The C.P. Snow Controversy.- Research on Engineers¿ Work at a Turning Point?.- The Two Cultures of Engineering Education: Looking Back and Moving Forward.- Bridging Engineering and Humanities at Techno-Anthropology.- Reflections on the Use of Theory in Engineering Education Research: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Comparisons.- Social Justice at an Irish Practice-based University: In or out of Place.- Engineering Ethics, Social Theory and How We Might Do Better!.- A Critique: Report of the NASEM Committee on Integrating Higher Education in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.- A Social Science Research Agenda for Engineering Practice.- Globalization is Necessary but Impossible: The Existential Contradictions Engineers (and Everyone Else) are Ignoring.- Social Reproduction and Ranking in French high Level Engineering Schools.- Engineering Myths in China and the United States.- The Need for a Recovery of Engineering.- Engineering with Social Sciences and Humanities: Necessary Partnerships in Facing Contemporary (Un)Sustainability Challenges?.- What's happening to Organs? Philosophical Insights into Tissue and Organ Engineering.- On Configurations of Knowledge in Engineering.