The Engineering-Business Nexus

General Introduction. The Nature, History and Context of the Engineering-Business Nexus (Steen Hyldgaard Christensen).- Part I. Engineering and Business Value Systems.- Introduction (Christelle Didier).- Chapter 1. Engineering and Management: The Odd Couple (Michael Davis).- Chapter 2. Engineering and Business Ethics: Deconstructing Higher Aims of Professionalism (Christelle Didier).- Chapter 3. Prisoners of the Capitalist Machine: Captivity and the Corporate Engineer (Edward Conlon).- Chapter 4. Educating Engineer-Managers about Corporate Social Responsibility following the Montreal School's Perspective (Lovasoa Ramboarisata).- Chapter 5. Actualization of Engineers' Professional Ideal in Quebec: Analysis of the Barriers (Luc Begin).- Part II. Engineering and Business Ideologies Past and Present.- Introduction (Steen Hyldgaard Christensen).- Chapter 6. Industry versus Business: Thorstein Veblen's Deconstruction of the Engineering-Business Nexus (Steen Hyldgaard Christensen).- Chapter 7. The Sons of Martha vs. the Sons of Mary: Forging Iron and Finding Gold in Engineering and Business Ideologies (Janis Langins).- Chapter 8. The Engineer, Entrepreneur and Economist in 1980s' Chinese Economic System Transformation (Li Bocong).- Chapter 9. Influence of Environmental Discourses in Engineering Education for Sustainability (Charles McMahon).- Chapter 10. Sustainability Management or Management Sustainability? (Martin Meganck).- Chapter 11. The Maker Movement as Democratizing Innovation in China: Entrepreneurial Engineers at the Nexus of Technological Resourcefulness and Pragmatic Politics (Qin Zhu).- Part III. The Practices of Business and Engineering.- Introduction (Mike Murphy).- Chapter 12. Situating the Engineering-Business Nexus within an overall Societal Context: Engineering a challenging and challenged Profession (William Grimson).- Chapter 13. Learning to practice Engineering in the World beyond School: The Experiences of newly hired Engineers in Business (Russell

Christensen, Steen Hyldgaard. MA in Danish Language and Literature, and the History of Ideas from Aarhus University. He holds a PhD in Engineering Education Research from Aalborg University. Since 2014 Adjunct associate professor at Aalborg University. He is the initiator, coordinator, lead editor and contributing author of 6 edited volumes on engineering. Besides he has co-authored a book on science and technology together with Andrew Jamison and Lars Botin. In addition he has published a number of articles on engineering epistemology, culture and higher education.




Delahousse, Bernard. MA in English Language and Literature, Université de Lille, France. Former lecturer of English for Specific Purposes for Engineering students at Université Lille 1 Sciences et Technologies, France. Co-editor and co-author of four books coordinated by S. H. Christensen. Former Chief Editor of Les Langues Modernes,the journal of the French Association des Professeurs de Langues Vivantes.



Didier, Christelle. BS in Electrochemistry Engineering, MA in Education, She holds a PhD in Sociology from Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Paris. From 1993 to 2013 Assistant Professor at Catholic University of Lille, France, Ethics Department. Assistant Professor, University of Lille, Education Department, Member of CIREL-Proféor (EA 4354). Co-author of Ethique Industrielle (1998) and International Perspectives on Engineering Education: Engineering Education and Practice in Context (2015), author of Penser l'éthique des ingénieurs (2008) and Les ingénieurs et l'éthique. Pour un regard sociologique (2008).



Meganck, Martin. MSc in Chemical Engineering from Ghent University, PhD in Chemical Engineering and MA Moral Theology both from KU Leuven. Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics in the Faculty of Engineering Technology at KU Leuven in Ghent. Teaching areas: Philosophy of