Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities: Have Their Conversations Come of Age?

The book examines the importance of conversations between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities and their real-world consequences in engineering education and practice. It provides scholarly-argued responses to questions about why these conversations are important, key places for development, barriers to success, and proposals for deepening them. It appeals to scholarly audiences and offers resources and theoretical tools for researchers of engineering practices and those aiming to reshape the engineering lifeworld.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 427 pages
Publication date: 18 January 2024
Publisher: Springer International Publishing AG

The book presents a critical examination of conversations between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities, asking whether they have come of age. These conversations are important because they have real-world consequences in engineering education and practice, as well as for the social and material world we inhabit. The 21 chapters provide scholarly-argued responses to the following questions: Why are these conversations important for engineering, social sciences, and the humanities? Are there key places in practice, in the curriculum, and in institutions where these conversations can develop best? What are the barriers to successful conversations? What proposals can be made for deepening these conversations for the future? How would we know that the conversations have come of age, and who gets to decide? The book appeals to scholarly audiences that come together through their work in engineering education and practice. The chapters of the book probe and access the meetings and conversations, and they explore new avenues for strengthening dialogues that transcend narrow disciplinary confines and divisions. "The volume offers a rich collection of descriptive resources and theoretical tools that will be useful for researchers of engineering practices, and for those aiming to reshape the engineering lifeworld through new policies. The book depicts the current state of the art of the most visible SSH contributions to shaping engineering practices, as well as a map of research gaps and policy problems that still need to be explored." - Dr. Ir. Lavinia Marin, TU Delft, Electrical Engineering and Philosophy

Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783031116032
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022