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Engineering in Society: Beyond the technical... what every engineering student ought to know
Students often have misconceptions about a career in engineering. They often underestimate the importance of communication and negotiation, or don’t realise the amount of responsibility that they are likely to have, and the extent to which they will have to use their own judgement, and make their own decisions.
The purpose of this ebook, therefore, is to give students new to engineering an initial insight into the profession of engineering and some idea of what their future career might look like.
The target audience for the e-book is primarily first year undergraduate students beginning their degree programmes, but it will also be of interest and value to:
•engineering students at any stage in their education;
•14-18 year olds considering career opportunities;
•teachers of STEM subjects and careers advisers;
•engineering academics thinking about teaching engineering ethics and social impact.
The purpose of this ebook, therefore, is to give students new to engineering an initial insight into the profession of engineering and some idea of what their future career might look like.
The target audience for the e-book is primarily first year undergraduate students beginning their degree programmes, but it will also be of interest and value to:
•engineering students at any stage in their education;
•14-18 year olds considering career opportunities;
•teachers of STEM subjects and careers advisers;
•engineering academics thinking about teaching engineering ethics and social impact.
- GenresEngineering
70 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 19, 2013
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About the author
Martin J. Haigh
17 booksMartin John Haigh
B. 1950
British environmental scientist, educator and academic
Professor of Geography and University Teaching Fellow, School of Social Sciences and Law, Oxford Brookes University
B. 1950
British environmental scientist, educator and academic
Professor of Geography and University Teaching Fellow, School of Social Sciences and Law, Oxford Brookes University
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October 29, 2021
The paper explores one of the key things to remember for engineering, which is its ethics and its responsibilities which are often understated.
One of the examples was the launch of the challenger by Nasa, whereby the head engineer reversed his decision under pressure and allowed the launch to go ahead and culminated in a disaster, which had a—simple to understand but hard to put into practice—lesson, sometimes we have to take a firm stand on issues.
The paper approached the engineering discipline from many different perspectives, which made it a good read, and some will say a must-read for budding engineers to expose themselves to the human side of engineering. However, it is not an inspiring or particularly informative one, read it like an introductory page to a textbook, necessary for the book to be put into context, but not so much a lesson in its own.
One of the examples was the launch of the challenger by Nasa, whereby the head engineer reversed his decision under pressure and allowed the launch to go ahead and culminated in a disaster, which had a—simple to understand but hard to put into practice—lesson, sometimes we have to take a firm stand on issues.
The paper approached the engineering discipline from many different perspectives, which made it a good read, and some will say a must-read for budding engineers to expose themselves to the human side of engineering. However, it is not an inspiring or particularly informative one, read it like an introductory page to a textbook, necessary for the book to be put into context, but not so much a lesson in its own.
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