What is global engineering education for? : The making of international educators.
By: Downey, Gary Lee.
Contributor(s): Beddoes, Kacey.
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BookSeries: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science: ; Synthesis lectures on global engineering: # 2.Publisher: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, c2011Description: 1 electronic text (p. x, 253-468 : ill.) : digital file.ISBN: 9781608455447 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Engineering -- Study and teaching | Engineering -- International cooperation | International education | Engineering education | Global engineering (education) | International engineering (education) | Study abroad | International service learning | International co-op | International internship | Work abroad | Peace Corps | ABET | EC 2000 | GlobalizationDDC classification: 602.3 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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PK Kelkar Library, IIT Kanpur | Available | EBKE293 |
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Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
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Part III. Redefining engineering: five non-engineers and two hybrids -- 12. Communicating across cultures: humanities in the international education of engineers / Bernd Widdig -- 13. Linking language proficiency and the professions / Michael Nugent -- 14. Language, life, and pathways to global competency for engineers (and everyone else) / Phil McKnight -- 15. Bridging two worlds / John M.Grandin -- 16. Opened eyes: from moving up to helping students see / Gayle G. Elliott -- 17. What is engineering for? A search for engineering beyond militarism and free-markets / Juan Lucena -- 18. Location, knowledge, and desire: from two conservatisms to engineering cultures and countries / Gary Lee Downey -- Epilogue, beyond global competence: implications for engineering pedagogy / Gary Lee Downey --
A. Making explicit diverse trajectories / Gary Lee Downey -- B. Conversations without authors -- Authors' biographies.
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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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