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Author : Rasul, Mohammad
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781466609525
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Higher Education and Workforce,Committee on Integrating Higher Education in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309470643
In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines â€"arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineeringâ€" as well as an in-depth study within a special area of interest, have been defining characteristics of a higher education. But over time, in-depth study in a major discipline has come to dominate the curricula at many institutions. This evolution of the curriculum has been driven, in part, by increasing specialization in the academic disciplines. There is little doubt that disciplinary specialization has helped produce many of the achievement of the past century. Researchers in all academic disciplines have been able to delve more deeply into their areas of expertise, grappling with ever more specialized and fundamental problems. Yet today, many leaders, scholars, parents, and students are asking whether higher education has moved too far from its integrative tradition towards an approach heavily rooted in disciplinary "silos". These "silos" represent what many see as an artificial separation of academic disciplines. This study reflects a growing concern that the approach to higher education that favors disciplinary specialization is poorly calibrated to the challenges and opportunities of our time. The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education examines the evidence behind the assertion that educational programs that mutually integrate learning experiences in the humanities and arts with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) lead to improved educational and career outcomes for undergraduate and graduate students. It explores evidence regarding the value of integrating more STEMM curricula and labs into the academic programs of students majoring in the humanities and arts and evidence regarding the value of integrating curricula and experiences in the arts and humanities into college and university STEMM education programs.
Author : James Hamilton Schaub,Sheila Kathryn Dickison,Morton Dan Morris
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Engineering and the humanities
ISBN : PSU:000014232701
Author : Eswaran Subrahmanian,Toluwalogo Odumosu,Jeffrey Y. Tsao
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783319911342
This open access book examines how the social sciences can be integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting unique perspectives on the interplay between engineering and social science. Motivated by the report by the Commission on Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Association of Arts and Sciences, which emphasizes the importance of social sciences and Humanities in technical fields, the essays and papers collected in this book were presented at the NSF-funded workshop ‘Engineering a Better Future: Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences and Innovation’, which brought together a singular collection of people, topics and disciplines. The book is split into three parts: A. Meeting at the Middle: Challenges to educating at the boundaries covers experiments in combining engineering education and the social sciences; B. Engineers Shaping Human Affairs: Investigating the interaction between social sciences and engineering, including the cult of innovation, politics of engineering, engineering design and future of societies; and C. Engineering the Engineers: Investigates thinking about design with papers on the art and science of science and engineering practice.
Author : Steen Hyldgaard Christensen,Anders Buch,Eddie Conlon,Christelle Didier,Carl Mitcham,Mike Murphy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031116018
This book presents a critical examination of conversations between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities asking whether their conversations have come of age. These conversations are important because ultimately their outcome have real world consequences in engineering education and practice, and for the social and material world we inhabit. Taken together the 21 chapters provide scholarly-argued responses to the following questions. Why are these conversations important for engineering, for social sciences, and for 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 probes 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
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Policy and Global Affairs,Board on Higher Education and Workforce,Committee on Integrating Higher Education in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780309470612
In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines â€"arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineeringâ€" as well as an in-depth study within a special area of interest, have been defining characteristics of a higher education. But over time, in-depth study in a major discipline has come to dominate the curricula at many institutions. This evolution of the curriculum has been driven, in part, by increasing specialization in the academic disciplines. There is little doubt that disciplinary specialization has helped produce many of the achievement of the past century. Researchers in all academic disciplines have been able to delve more deeply into their areas of expertise, grappling with ever more specialized and fundamental problems. Yet today, many leaders, scholars, parents, and students are asking whether higher education has moved too far from its integrative tradition towards an approach heavily rooted in disciplinary "silos". These "silos" represent what many see as an artificial separation of academic disciplines. This study reflects a growing concern that the approach to higher education that favors disciplinary specialization is poorly calibrated to the challenges and opportunities of our time. The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education examines the evidence behind the assertion that educational programs that mutually integrate learning experiences in the humanities and arts with science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM) lead to improved educational and career outcomes for undergraduate and graduate students. It explores evidence regarding the value of integrating more STEMM curricula and labs into the academic programs of students majoring in the humanities and arts and evidence regarding the value of integrating curricula and experiences in the arts and humanities into college and university STEMM education programs.
Author : Jeffrey Y Tsao,Toluwalogo Odumosu,Eswaran Subrahmanian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1013276205
This open access book examines how the social sciences can be integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting unique perspectives on the interplay between engineering and social science. Motivated by the report by the Commission on Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Association of Arts and Sciences, which emphasizes the importance of social sciences and Humanities in technical fields, the essays and papers collected in this book were presented at the NSF-funded workshop 'Engineering a Better Future: Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences and Innovation', which brought together a singular collection of people, topics and disciplines. The book is split into three parts: A. Meeting at the Middle: Challenges to educating at the boundaries covers experiments in combining engineering education and the social sciences; B. Engineers Shaping Human Affairs: Investigating the interaction between social sciences and engineering, including the cult of innovation, politics of engineering, engineering design and future of societies; and C. Engineering the Engineers: Investigates thinking about design with papers on the art and science of science and engineering practice. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author : Armida de la Garza,Charles Travis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2018-10-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319898186
This volume is dedicated to collaborative research across STEM disciplines, the arts and humanities. It includes six sections, framed from a global perspective and exhibits contributions from key experts in the field, emerging scholarly voices, and STEAM practitioners. The added value of STEAM projects in research is highlighted in the first section of this book. Ranging from the spatial, medical and environmental humanities to heritage science, this section discusses the course and paths STEAM projects may evolve to in the near future. The second section features reflective essays by scientists and artists on the development of their research, their professional growth and personal learning experiences that the art/science collaborations have afforded their work and careers. Sections III and IV provides practical guidance and advice on facilitating STEAM teams and describe successful collaborative projects. By presenting the objectives and outcomes of relevant research, the chapters in these sections discuss the various steps taken by different teams to achieve project fruition. Paying particular attention to barriers inhibiting STEAM collaboration, these sections also explore the ways in which research teams were able to work effectively. The fifth section presents a review of policy issues and the potential impacts of STEAM research for administrators, funders and policy makers. In its pursuit for balance and inclusion, the volume concludes with a critical reflection on STEAM that argues a different perspective and will prove food for thought to readers.
Author : Vivek Wadhwa,Alex Salkever
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781523095858
“Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most significant aspects of our lives—the consequences of our addiction to online technology and how we can liberate ourselves and our children from it.” —Dean Ornish, M.D. Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Author, The Spectrum Technology: your master, or your friend? Do you feel ruled by your smartphone and enslaved by your e-mail or social-network activities? Digital technology is making us miserable, say bestselling authors and former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. We've become a tribe of tech addicts—and it's not entirely our fault. Taking advantage of vulnerabilities in human brain function, tech companies entice us to overdose on technology interaction. This damages our lives, work, families, and friendships. Swipe-driven dating apps train us to evaluate people like products, diminishing our relationships. At work, we e-mail on average 77 times a day, ruining our concentration. At home, light from our screens is contributing to epidemic sleep deprivation. But we can reclaim our lives without dismissing technology. The authors explain how to avoid getting hooked on tech and how to define and control the roles that tech is playing and could play in our lives. And they provide a guide to technological and personal tools for regaining control. This readable book turns personal observation into a handy action guide to adapting to our new reality of omnipresent technology.
Author : Joseph Shackford Johnston,Susan Shaman,Robert Zemsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015040709555
The results of several studies of the humanities and social sciences in undergraduate engineering education are presented and discussed. The first chapter explains the value of humanities and social sciences coursework and describes briefly some of the obstacles confronting efforts to improve it. The second chapter summarizes the findings of two empirical studies, one of engineering programs policies and one of engineering students' choice of humanities and social science courses. The third chapter briefly describes 13 programs, or parts of programs, that provide liberal education to engineering students in innovative ways. With special attention given to the "typical" engineering school, chapter four suggests criteria for improving humanities and social science coursework and steps to help create a climate and mechanisms to support that improvement. Contains 30 references. (MSE)
Author : William H. Davenport,Daniel I. Rosenthal
Publisher : Elsevier
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781483157825
Engineering: Its Role and Function in Human Society illustrates the historical views held by humanists and technologists with regard to each other, the accomplishments of engineering in the past, and the problems involving laymen and men of science together in their relationships. Some of the topics covered are the aloofness from science and technology; hostility to technology; and acceptance of technology. The book also covers topics on the attitudes of the engineer; the use of engineering in relation to human needs; and engineering as a technological culture. The ultimate use of tools and machines; automation and human condition; pollution and pollutants; and causes of problems in engineering are also encompassed. Engineers and engineering students will find the book invaluable.
Author : Steen Hyldgaard Christensen,Carl Mitcham,Bocong Li,Yanming An
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400752825
This inclusive, cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering, development, and culture. It offers diverse commentary from a range of disciplinary perspectives on how the philosophies of today’s cultural triumvirate—American, European and Chinese—are shaped and given nuance by the cross-fertilization of engineering and development. Scholars from the humanities and social sciences as well as engineers themselves reflect on key questions that arise in this relational context, such as how international development work affects the professional views, identities, practice and ethics of engineers. The first volume to offer a systematic and collaborative study that cuts across continental boundaries, the book delineates the kinds of skills and competences that tomorrow’s engineering success stories will require, and analyzes fascinating aspects of the interplay between engineering and philosophy, such as how traditionally Chinese ways of thinking can influence modern engineering practice in the world’s most populous country. China’s problematic mix of engineering woes and wonders, from the high-profile crash on its high-profile rail network to its ‘bird’s nest’ Olympic stadium, adds to the urgency for reform, while Europe’s Enlightenment-informed legal frameworks are contrasted with Chinese mechanisms in their governance of the field of nanotechnology, a crucial element of future technical evolution. Fascinating and compelling in equal measure, this volume addresses one of the topics at the leading edge of humanity’s quest to survive, and to thrive.
Author : Annie Gentes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319659848
Design is a conceptive activity which is usually presented as a sensible, sequential process and action. This book claims that design cannot be reduced to the rational, effective planning and organization that most models (such as design thinking) present. The author suggests another type of rationality which is based on what the humanities call aesthetics, writing, composition, and style: a rationality based in imaginary elaboration and coherence. The chapters, therefore, demonstrate that design practice is about creating not only functional tools, but planes of reflections that challenge norms. To support this claim, this book analyzes research programs, art works, and design projects that produced new information and communication technologies (ICT). This is detailed using examples in each chapter. From these examples, two types of conclusions are derived: a first level considers the lessons that we can draw from these examples in terms of design practice while the second level starts a theoretical discussion based on these analyses of use cases. The goal is to develop an understanding of conception in its different forms. This book brings the use of these neglected methods to the foreground as a way to explicate the design process. Taking into consideration the humanities within design contributes to the discussion on pluridisciplinarity. The book posits that design as a historical and situated activity is a truly multidisciplinary endeavor that bridges the gap between engineering sciences and the humanities.
Author : Joseph S. Johnston, Jr.
Publisher : Association of American Colleges & Universities
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000021297595
Undergraduate engineering students and their advisors are provided with a handbook to help improve the quality and coherence of the humanities and social sciences (H&SS) component of undergraduate engineering education (fostering more purposeful H&SS course selection). The first of this handbook's three sections has an engineering major and his advisor discussing the value of H&SS coursework and the case for taking it seriously. The second section is a brief set of general guidelines for constructing a sound H&SS component (noting it should do such things as fulfill the institution's and program's requirements, contribute to a general education, and include integrative and capstone experiences). Section three consists of eight sample H&SS clusters that illustrate how the guidelines can be applied by students with different needs, interests, and aspirations. The suggested cluster approach to H&SS course selection was designed by the project advisory committee and a working group of engineering and liberal arts educators from across the country. Suggestions about the H&SS component (as conforming to the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology guidelines) are that the H&SS component should be at least 12.5% of the student's total program, be planned to reflect a rationale or fulfill an objective appropriate to the engineering profession, include some courses at an advanced level rather than be limited to a selection of unrelated introductory courses. (SM)
Author : Zhanna Anikina
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-07-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031114359
This book tackles the problems of engineering students and teachers while developing language skills through language education, transforming students’ mind-set through cultural studies, developing students’ intellectual abilities and personal qualities, and the use of information technologies in order to enhance the educational process. The International Conference Integration of Engineering Education and the Humanities: Global Intercultural Perspectives will take place 20–22 April 2022. It will be organized by Peter the Great Saint Petersburg Polytechnic University (Saint Petersburg, Russia) in collaboration with Research Centre Kairos (Tomsk, Russia). The event aims to raise discussions around a variety of aspects related to the integration of the humanities into engineering education. As such, the book will be of interest to the teachers, researchers and institutional leaders looking for the latest insights, experiences and research results on the topic.