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What is global engineering education for? : the making of international educators
Title:
What is global engineering education for? : the making of international educators
Author:
Downey, Gary Lee
ISBN:
9781608455430
Publication Information:
[San Rafael, Calif.] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2011
Physical Description:
xi, 486 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Series:
Synthesis lectures on global engineering ; 1
Contents:
pt. 1. Introduction -- pt. 2. Redefining engineering : nine engineers -- pt. 3. Redefining engineering : five non -engineers and two hybrids
Abstract:
Global engineering offers the seductive image of engineers figuring out how to optimize work through collaboration and mobility. Its biggest challenge to engineers, however, is more fundamental and difficult: to better understand what they know and value qua engineers and why. This volume reports an experimental effort to help sixteen engineering educators produce "personal geographies" describing what led them to make risky career commitments to international and global engineering education. The contents of their diverse trajectories stand out in extending far beyond the narrower image of producing globally-competent engineers. Their personal geographies repeatedly highlight experiences of incongruence beyond home countries that provoked them to see themselves and understand their knowledge differently. The experiences were sufficiently profound to motivate them to design educational experiences that could challenge engineering students in similar ways.
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