Engineering Identities, Epistemologies and Values

General Introduction. The Engineering - Context Nexus: A Perennial Discourse; Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham and Byron Newberry.- Section 1. Engineering Identities.- Section Introduction; Tony Marjoram and Mike Murphy.- Chapter 1. Dialectics of Engineering; Byron Newberry.- Chapter 2. 'Nuts and Bolts and People'. Gender-Troubled Engineering Identities; Wendy Faulkner.- Chapter 3. Designing the Identities of Engineers; Mike Murphy, Shannon Chance and Eddie Conlon.- Chapter 4. Engineering as Profession: Some Methodological Problems in its Study; Michael Da-vis.- Chapter 5. Engineering Ethics and Engineering Identities: Crossing National Borders; Gary Lee Downey, Juan C. Lucena and Carl Mitcham.- Chapter 6. Identifying Engineering: The Need for Better Numbers on Human and Related Resources and Policy; Tony Marjoram.- Section 2. The Epistemological Basis of Engineering.- Section Introduction; Anders Buch and Stig Andur Peder-sen.- Chapter 7. Studying Engineering Practice; Anders Buch.- Chapter 8. Design Methodology and Engineering Design: From Technical Problem Solving to Social Exploration; Pieter E. Vermaas.- Chapter 9. The Epistemological Basis of Engineering: and its Reflection in the Modern Engineering Curriculum; William Grimson and Mike Murphy.- Chapter 10. The Tension between Science and Engineering Design; Stig Andur Pedersen.- Chapter 11. Efficiency Animals: Efficiency as an Engineering Value; Byron Newberry.- Section 3. Engineering Values and Normativities.- Section Introduction; Jen Schneider and Wayne Ambler.- Chapter 12. On the Normativity of Professionalism; Martin Meganck.- Chapter 13. Engineer's Ecoskepticism as an Ethical Problem; Christelle Didier and Kristoff Talin.- Chapter 14. Engineering as a Technological Way of World-making; Sylvain Lavelle.- Chapter 15. The Nuclear Pipeline: Integrating Nuclear Power and Climate Change; Jen Schneider, Abraham S. D. Tidwell, andSavannah Avgerinos

Steen Hyldgaard Christensen M.A. in Scandinavian Language and Literature and the History of Ideas, Aarhus University. Ph.D. in Educational Studies, Aalborg University. Senior lecturer at Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences, Herning, Denmark, until 2014. From 2014, adjunct associate professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has initiated six big international inter- and metadisciplinary research projects on engineering including PROCEED and coordinated fi ve of them. He has acted in roles of editor-in-chief and coauthor of four books: Profession, Culture, and Communication: An Interdisciplinary Challenge to Business and Engineering (Institute of Business Administration and Technology Press 2003); Philosophy in Engineering (Academica 2007); Engineering in Context (Academica 2009); and Engineering, Development and Philosophy: American, Chinese, and European Perspectives (Springer 2012). Besides, he has coauthored A Hybrid Imagination: Science and Technology in Cultural Perspective (Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2011) together with Andrew Jamison and Lars Botin. In addition, he has published a number of articles on engineering epistemology, culture, and education. Current research interest includes academic drift in engineering education and structural dynamics in higher education.





Christelle Didier B.S. in Electrochemistry Engineering, M.A. in Education, Ph.D. in Sociology from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris. From 1993 to 2013, Assistant Professor, Lille University, France, Ethics Department. AssistantProfessor, Charles de Gaulle University of Lille, Education Department. Member of CIREL (EA 4354). Coauthor of Ethique industrielle (DeBoeck, Brussels, 1998) and author of Penser l'éthique des ingénieurs (PUF, Paris 2008) and Les ingénieurs et l'éthique: Pour un regard sociologique (Hermes 2008). She has published many articles on ethics and social responsibility in the