scholarly journals ENGINEERING, PATRIARCHY, AND THE PLURIVERSE: WHAT WORLD OF MANY WORLDS DO WE DESIGN? WHAT WORLDS DO WE TEACH?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephanie Mutch ◽  
Matt Borland ◽  
Kate Mercer
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Western World ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Many Worlds ◽  
Man And Nature ◽  
Discursive Design ◽  
Current Engineering

This paper presents a brief review of sustainability definitions and analyzes ways of designingtaught in our Engineering education system, specifically acknowledging the capitalist, patriarchal, colonial, Western world that much, if not most, of current Engineering practice situates itself within. Included in these frameworks are pluriversal design, co-design, participatory design, and discursive design. Another important topic that will be examined is the dualist perspective embodied in Engineering practice that creates a distinction between “man” and “nature”.  While this problem is inherently systemic, our intention is to provide a partial record of our own critical selfreflection,contextualized using critical theory. It is intended as a starting place for settler-descendent NorthAmerican educators to begin to contextualize our own approaches, not as a way for us to guide steps forward, but instead to begin a self-critique of current approaches that need continued work.

scholarly journals ENHANCING DESIGN EDUCATION BY PRODUCT REVERSE ENGINEERING

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kezheng Huang
Keyword(s):  
Reverse Engineering ◽  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Design Theory ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Current Engineering

As science and technology develops faster and faster, the accumulation of knowledge is exponential over time. Engineering education must keep up with the changing environment including engineering practice. As each individual’s capability is limited, engineering students need choosing right stuff to learn so that they can graduate as qualified engineers with both broad knowledge and practical skills as required in industry. In this paper, the current engineering education is discussed with some trends, such as creativity training as most have insisted in project-based hands-on design education, broad knowledge including essential engineering science knowledge. As a comprehensive discipline, design engineering courses exist to teach engineering design fundamental. Due to immature design theory and methodology, the “learning by doing” approach is widely accepted to complement current engineering design education. In this paper, an integrated effort is introduced which combines together the two basic aspects, knowledge and skill, in order to increase the half-life of engineering knowledge and enhance the hands-on skills at the same time. Based on new development in design research, an experimental design education using Product Reverse Engineering (PRE) as education tool, is introduced with initial evaluation for suitability in design education.

Reality brings excitement to engineering education

1998 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-86
Author(s):  
LARRY LEIFER ◽  
SHERI SHEPPARD
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Thinking Skills ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Engineering Science ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
Engineering Product ◽  
Intellectual Content ◽  
Versus Communication ◽  
Constant Source

The intellectual content and social activity of engineering product development are a constant source of surprise, excitement, and challenge for engineers. When our students experience product-based-learning (PBL), they experience this excitement (Brereton et al., 1995). They also have fun and perform beyond the limits required for simple grades. We, their teachers, experience these things too. Why, then, are so few students and faculty getting the PBL message? How, then, can we put the excitement back in engineering education? In part, we think this is because of three persistent mistakes in engineering education:1. We focus on individual students.2. We focus on engineering analysis versus communication between engineers.3. We fail to integrate thinking skills in engineering science and engineering practice.

scholarly journals Vidyasetu - A Digital Disruption In Engineering Education System In India As An Impact Of Industry 4.0

2021 ◽  
Vol 1797 (1) ◽  
pp. 012061
Author(s):  
P Das ◽  
R Sarkar ◽  
S Mallik ◽  
S Majumder ◽  
K Das ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Digital Disruption

Assessing the undrained strength cross-anisotropy of three tailings types

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
D. Reid ◽  
R. Fanni ◽  
A. Fourie
Keyword(s):  
Principal Stress ◽  
Stress Ratio ◽  
Additional Data ◽  
Layered Materials ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Shear Tests ◽  
Undrained Strength ◽  
Cross Anisotropy ◽  
Current Engineering

The cross-anisotropic nature of soil strength has been studied and documented for decades, including the increased propensity for cross-anisotropy in layered materials. However, current engineering practice for tailings storage facilities (TSFs) does not appear to generally include cross-anisotropy considerations in the development of shear strengths. This being despite the very common layering profile seen in subaerially-deposited tailings. To provide additional data to highlight the strength cross-anisotropy of tailings, high quality block samples from three TSFs were obtained and trimmed to enable Hollow Cylinder Torsional Shear tests to be sheared at principal stress angles of 0 and 45 degrees during undrained shearing. Consolidation procedures were carried out such that the drained rotation of principal stress angle that would precede potential undrained shear events for below-slope tailings was reasonably simulated. The results indicated the significant effects of cross-anisotropy on the undrained strength, instability stress ratio, contractive tendency and brittleness of each of the three tailings types. The magnitude of cross-anisotropy effects seen was generally consistent with previous published data on sands.

Development of Web-based Technology for Environmental Engineering Education System

2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (4) ◽  
pp. 04-05
Author(s):  
Procopio Cocci
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Education System ◽  
Environmental Engineering ◽  
Web Based ◽  
The Core ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Training Mode ◽  
Natural Information ◽  
Good For ◽  
Ecological Building

The objective of the ecological building instruction ought not just train understudies' natural information, the more significant thing is that it prepares understudies' natural ethics and structures the conduct which is good for the earth, and these must be shaped by training, in actuality. In the customary showing model of training, one instructor can just guide one practice simultaneously. With the improvement of organization innovation, instructor can control the distinctive practice exercises firing up in various areas or in various occasions by network. In light of the incorporation of viable need and intuitive qualities of condition instruction, the creator set forward an online domain training mode named "practice-intelligent partake in". The Core of this mode is to prepare understudies' natural ethics by training and to understand educators' guidance through organization.

Educating the Engineer of 2020

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice M. Agogino
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Gender Equity ◽  
Practice Change ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Science And Engineering ◽  
The Us

How will engineering practice change in the next twenty years? What are the implications to engineering education? Will we have achieved gender equity? These questions will be discussed in the context of three recent reports of the US. National Academy of Engineering – The Engineer of 2020: Global Visions of Engineering in the New Century; Educating the Engineer of 2020: Adapting Engineering Education to the New Century; and Beyond Bias and Barriers: Fulfilling the Potential of Women in Academic Science and Engineering.

Constructing the Oriental ‘Other’: Saint-Saëns's Samson et Dalila

1991 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 261-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph P. Locke
Keyword(s):  
Critical Theory ◽  
The Other ◽  
Western World ◽  
Distinctive Features ◽  
Musical Practices

Opera is rich in works that construct visions of the non-Western world and its inhabitants: Rameau's Les Indes galantes, Mozart's Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Bizet's Les Pêcheurs de perles, Verdi's Aida, Strauss's Salome, Puccini's Turandot. In these operas the representation of what recent critical theory calls ‘the Other’ is most clearly announced in the basic plot, in characters' names, and in costumes, sets and props. But to what extent do the libretto and the music also participate in this project?The question easily lends itself to a narrower formulation: to what extent do these operas signal Otherness – Turkishness, Indianness, Chineseness and so on – through musical materials that depart from Western stylistic norms or even reflect specific musical practices of the region in question? Scholars and critics have repeatedly posed the problem in these terms, only to find themselves frustrated by three limitations: general stylistic aberrations are often applied indiscriminately by composers to vastly different geographical settings; borrowed tunes and the like tend to lose distinctive features by being uprooted and transplanted; and whole stretches of these operas are written in an entirely Western idiom.

scholarly journals CHALLENGES IN ENGINEERING DESIGN EDUCATION: VERTICAL AND LATERAL LEARNING

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aleksander Czekanski ◽  
Maher Al-Dojayli ◽  
Tom Lee
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Education ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Engineering Students ◽  
Engineering Practice ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Engineering Design Education ◽  
Advanced Analysis ◽  
Capstone Projects ◽  
Team Design

Engineering practice and design in particular have gone through several changes during the last two decades whether due to scientific achievements including the evolution in novel engineering materials, computational advancements, globalization and economic constraints as well as the strategic needs which are the drive for innovative engineering. All these factors have impacted and shaped to certain extent the educational system in North America and Canada in particular. Currently, high percentage of the engineering graduates would require extensive training in industry to be able to conduct reliable complex engineering designs supported by scientific verification and validation, understand the complete design stages and phases, and identify the economic and cultural impact on such designs. This task, however, faces great challenges without educational support in such vastly changing economy.Lots of attention has been devoted to engineering design education in the recent years to incorporate engineering design courses supported by team design projects and capstone projects. Nevertheless, the lack of integrated education system towards engineering design programs can undermine the benefits of such efforts. In this paper, observations and analysis of the challenges in engineering design are presented from both academic and industrial points of view. Furthermore, a proposed vertical and lateral engineering education program is discussed. This program is structured to cover every year of the engineering education curricula, which emphasizes on innovative thinking, design strategies, support from and integration with other technical engineering courses, the use of advanced analysis tools, team collaboration, management and leadership, multidisciplinary education and industrial involvement. Its courses have just commenced for freshmen engineering students at the newly launched Mechanical Engineering Department at the Lassonde School of Engineering, York University.

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