Background Engineering educators prepare students for responsible, ethical, and socially
aware engineering practice by contextualizing engineering in a variety of ways. Recently …

This short paper comments upon a concern repeatedly voiced by would-be engineering
education reformers, namely what to do about the profound instrumentalist orientation to …

How engineers in the mining and oil and gas industries attempt to reconcile competing
domains of public accountability. The growing movement toward corporate social …

How do we combat the “culture of disengagement”(Cech, 2014) in engineering education?
How do we effectively prepare students for the sociotechnical nature of engineering …

Engineering educators continue to challenge the social/technical dichotomy by framing
engineering as a set of non-neutral activities. Faced with the historical realities that …

Responding to the need for a timely and authoritative volume dedicated to this burgeoning
and expansive area of research, this handbook will provide readers with a map of themes …

Few studies consider how changes in science studies education might reduce barriers to
fruitful engagement with scientific practices. This paper is co-authored by the participants …

Engineering education has made strides towards integrating social context into engineering
problems. Real-world problems are one way educators have sought to contextualize …

This paper addresses the persistent problem that engineering education positions the
engineering profession in neutral terms, placing moral weight not on the work of engineers …

Engineering education has faced enduring criticism for being overly focused on the narrowly
technical dimensions of engineering practice, ill preparing engineering graduates for their …