International Perspectives on Engineering Education

General Introduction.- The Engineering - Context Nexus: A Perennial Discourse; Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Christelle Didier, Andrew Jamison, Martin Meganck, Carl Mitcham and Byron Newberry.- Section 1. Histories, Dynamics and Structures in Engineering Education.- Section Introduction Atsushi Akera and Erin Cech.- Chapter 1. A Historical Survey of the Structural Changes in the American System of Engineering Education.- Atsushi Akera and Bruce Seely.- Chapter 2. The Role of Research in Academic Drift Processes in European and American Professional Engineering Education outside the Universities; Steen Hyldgaard Christensen and Byron Newberry.- Chapter 3. Structural Transformations in Higher Engineering Education in Europe; Bernard Delahousse and Wilhelm Bomke.- Chapter 4. Engineering Brazil: National Engineering Capability at Stake; Édison Renato Silva, Roberto Bartholo, and Domício Proença Jr.- Chapter 5. Engineering Education in India: A Comprehensive Overview; Balasundaram Subramanian.- Chapter 6. Engineering Education in Slavic Languages Countries; Maria Kostyszak, Jan Wadowski, and Marcin Zaród.- Section 2. Ideologies of Engineering Education.- Section Introduction; Brent K. Jesiek and Christelle Didier; Chapter 7. Confucianism, Marxism, and Pragmatism: The Intellectual Contexts of Engineering Education in China; Qin Zhu and Brent K. Jesiek.- Chapter 8. Meritocracy, Technocracy, Democracy: Understandings of Racial and Gender Equity in American Engineering Education; Amy Slaton.- Chapter 9. Challenges of Overcoming Structural Barriers for African American Engineers in the United States and in the African Diaspora; Derrick Hudson.- Chapter 10. Depoliticization and the Structure of Engineering Education; Erin Cech and Heidi Sherick.- Section 3. Reforming Engineering Education: Experiences and Cases.- Section Introduction; Steen Hyldgaard Christensen and Niels Mejlgaard.- Chapter 11. Bridging Sustainable Community Development and Social Justice ; Juan Lucena.-

Steen Hyldgaard Christensen M.A. in Scandinavian Language and Literature and the History of Ideas, Aarhus University. Ph.D. in Educational Studies, Aalborg University. Senior lecturer at Aarhus University, School of Business and Social Sciences, Herning, Denmark, until 2014. From 2014, adjunct associate professor at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has initiated six big international inter- and metadisciplinary research projects on engineering including PROCEED and coordinated fi ve of them. He has acted in roles of editor-in-chief and coauthor of four books: Profession, Culture, and Communication: An Interdisciplinary Challenge to Business and Engineering (Institute of Business Administration and Technology Press 2003); Philosophy in Engineering (Academica 2007); Engineering in Context (Academica 2009); and Engineering, Development and Philosophy: American, Chinese, and European Perspectives (Springer 2012). Besides, he has coauthored A Hybrid Imagination: Science and Technology in Cultural Perspective (Morgan & Claypool Publishers 2011) together with Andrew Jamison and Lars Botin. In addition, he has published a number of articles on engineering epistemology, culture, and education. Current research interest includes academic drift in engineering education and structural dynamics in higher education.

"The two volumes together provide an extensive space for a varied array of individuals, established and ascending, who are reflecting thoughtfully about engineering education and practice from a variety of perspectives and disciplines at a possible inflection point for the profession." (Glen Miller, Technology, Knowledge and Learning, Vol. 22, 2017)