Priming and Mining the Civil Engineering Mindset: How Personal Values and Perfectionism Shape Societal Engagement and Consideration in Design
Nathalie Al Kakoun
Abstract:There are many ongoing calls for the integration of public welfare needs and concerns into engineering curricula and practice; for example, promoting social consciousness, human-centred design, and other socially-related frameworks. However, some engineering students still seem to devalue or resist these initiatives. This project attempts to overcome this problem by exploring a new methodology to facilitate such integrations, whilst bypassing the possible resistance. In the first intervention, this project exp… Show more
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