Engineering, Development and Philosophy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xxvii

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2. Rethinking Philosophy of Engineering and Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-6

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   2. Turning Engineering Green: Sustainable Development and Engineering Education

      • Andrew Jamison

      Pages 7-21

   3. From a Micro–Macro Framework to a Micro–Meso–Macro Framework

      • Bocong Li

      Pages 23-36

   4. Traditional Chinese Thinking and Its Influence on Modern Engineering and Social Development

      • Qian Wang, Qin Zhu

      Pages 37-46

   5. Engineering and Development in Modern China: Challenges and Responses

      • Xiaonan Hong, Li Ma

      Pages 47-67

   6. “Ecocity China”: An Ethos Under Development

      • Erich W. Schienke

      Pages 69-85

   7. Negotiated Development: Rediscovering a Global Development Ethic

      • Peter McEvoy, Jane Grimson, William Grimson

      Pages 87-102

3. Rethinking Engineering Education

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 103-107

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   2. The Challenge of Educating Engineers for a Close, Crowded and Creative World

      • Ela Krawczyk, Mike Murphy

      Pages 109-122

   3. Educating Chinese Engineers: The Case of Shanghai Jiao Tong University During 1896–1949

      • Brent K. Jesiek, Yi Shen

      Pages 123-143

   4. Academic Drift in European Professional Engineering Education: The End of Alternatives to the University?

      • Steen Hyldgaard Christensen

      Pages 145-167

   5. Governing Engineering

      • Anders Buch

      Pages 169-182

   6. Historical Tensions in Engineering Education: European Perspectives

      • Andrew Jamison, Matthias Heymann

      Pages 183-196

   7. Socio-technical Integration in Engineering Education: A Never-Ending Story

      • Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Erik Ernø-Kjølhede

      Pages 197-213

   8. Tensions in Developing Engineering Design Competencies

      • Ulrik Jørgensen

      Pages 215-231

   9. The Local Engineer: Normative Holism in Engineering Formation

      • Gary Lee Downey

      Pages 233-251

   10. Eyes Wide Shut? Loyalty and Practical Morality in Engineering Education

       • Martine Buser, Christian Koch

       Pages 253-267

4. Rethinking Perspectives on Engineering, Nature, and Society

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 269-274

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   2. Ex-students Engaged in “Engineers Without Borders”: What Have They Become?

      • Christelle Didier

      Pages 275-289

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.​

• Chinese Philosophy on Engineering and Social Development
• Chinese, European and American Perspectives
• Cultural Encounters
• Dam Construction Ethics in China
• Engineering and Development in Modern China
• Engineering and Harmonization with Nature
• Ethics in Engineering Development
• Philosophy of Green Engineering
• Rethinking Engineering Education
• Rethinking Perspectives on Engineering and Sustainability
• Rethinking philosophy of Engineering and Development
• Sustainable Development
• The development of railroads in the United States and China

• , Institute of Business and Technology, Aarhus University, Herning, Denmark

  Steen Hyldgaard Christensen

• , Dept of Liberal Arts & Int'l Studies, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, USA

  Carl Mitcham

• , Department of Social Sciences, Graduate University of Chinese Academy o, Beijing, China, People's Republic

  Bocong Li

• , Department of Languages, Clemson University, Clemson, USA

  Yanming An

Policies and ethics