Technology as ‘a human practice with social meaning’–a new scenery for engineering education

Gana, María Teresa Santander; Fuentes, Luis Antonio Trejo

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“…As technology has permeated through all spheres of personal, social and professional life, and as it has consequently become more life-constitutive, the function of the engineer today deserves a more constitutive description. Thus, the traditionally monodisciplinary and highly-specialized education would need a more holistic and interdisciplinary curriculum, equipping engineers with a social, economic and political understanding of their technological solutions, as engineers are supposed to understand the demand and needs of society, for which they design technological solutions (Gana & Fuentes, 2006).…”

Section: The Changing Role Of the Engineermentioning

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Assessing the industrial PhD: Stakeholder insights

Grimm

2018

J. Technol. Sci. Educ.

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Research and practice have called for a change in engineering education towards a more practice-oriented curricula to provide engineers with the skills they need for creating solutions for future challenges. While most studies address undergraduate programs, only little attention has been paid to graduate and post-graduate education. The Industrial PhD is expected to give PhD students on-the-job training to gain practically relevant and professional tacit knowledge and to enhance their set of soft skills. However, the training of practice-relevant methods and knowledge has so far been covered by alternative programs (e.g. traineeships), exclusively organized, financed and conducted by firms, and did not involve the responsibility of universities. Therefore, for the I.PhD, conflict between involved firms and universities can be expected.In order to analyze the potential of the Industrial PhD as an answer to the question of how to effectively make engineering education more practice-oriented, the present study analyses qualitative data on the experience of both industry and university actors with I.PhD programs. Questions on a) the motives and b) the perceived challenges allow valuable insights in the functionality of the I.PhD in terms of its success in its practical conduction. The study results indicate a divergence in the perception of the general value of I.PhD program among both stakeholder groups. Major challenges can be identified, while existing work on PhD training and university-industry research cooperation (UIRC) allow the deduction of success-supporting factors, which can be believed to enhance the effectiveness of I.PhD programs for all parties.

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Assessing the industrial PhD: Stakeholder insights

Grimm

2018

J. Technol. Sci. Educ.

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“…It was assumed that because the applications and tools are emphasized in the engineering education, whereas the scientific education traditionally focuses mainly on the phenomena (and possibly on the methods but rarely on the applications), it is understandable that the explicit presentation of the connections between the different levels of research is more useful to the scientists than to the engineers, who are used to considering problems on different levels and using different perspectives and several methods. [33][34][35][36] One could conclude that the conceptual analysis in which the connections between different areas of knowledge are connected via research tools seems to be more useful for specialists than for generalists because the latter are used more to search and find the connections themselves.…”

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Holistic Analysis on the Concept of Process Metallurgy and Its Application on the Modeling of the AOD Process

Heikkinen

Fabritius

Riipi

2010

Metall Mater Trans B

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EETU-PEKKA HEIKKINEN, TIMO FABRITIUS, and JAANA RIIPIThe criteria for evaluating the applied fields of science often are based on practical justifications such as functionality and applicability instead of objectiveness or truthfulness, which typically are emphasized in the more theoretical fields of science. The use of practical justifications is understandable when considering the value of an applied field of science, but it should be noted that this kind of approach leaves out some aspects that should be covered while considering the nature and meaning of the fundamental concepts of a certain field. This article analyzes the concept of process metallurgy from different perspectives and proposes a model that helps show the characteristic features and connections of the different aspects of the process metallurgy. Conceptual analysis was used to evaluate research concerning the modeling of the argon oxygen decarburization process, and it was concluded that holistic analysis of the fundamental concepts has certain advantages also on a practical level; it helps to visualize the connections among research, education, and practical applications as well as the links among different areas of research or education. With the awareness of these connections, it is easier to plan, visualize, and evaluate the research and its goals, methods, results, extent, and need for competence and to perceive the relations among the different areas of research as well as among the different researchers and to evaluate the validity of the research.

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The Social Construction of Water Management and Political Culture

Oktem¹

2016

Water Politics and Political Culture

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Technology as ‘a human practice with social meaning’–a new scenery for engineering education

Cited by 10 publications

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Assessing the industrial PhD: Stakeholder insights

Assessing the industrial PhD: Stakeholder insights

Holistic Analysis on the Concept of Process Metallurgy and Its Application on the Modeling of the AOD Process

The Social Construction of Water Management and Political Culture

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