What is global engineering education for? : the making of international educators / Gary Lee Downey and Kacey Beddoes.

Other author Downey, Gary Lee.
Other author Beddoes, Kacey.
Format Book
Publication Info[San Rafael, Calif.] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2011.
Descriptionxi, 486 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects
Engineering--Study and teaching (Higher).
Engineers--Education (Higher).
Foreign study.
Global method of teaching.

SeriesSynthesis lectures on global engineering ; #1
Synthesis lectures on global engineering #1. ^A1093204
Contents Part I. Introduction. 1. The Border Crossers: Personal Geographies of International and Global Engineering Educators /Gary Lee Downey --- 2. From Diplomacy and Development to Competitiveness and Globalization: Historical Perspectives on the Internationalization of Engineering Education /Brent Jesiek and Kacey Beddoes ---- Part II. Redefining Engineering: Nine Engineers. 3. Crossing Borders: My Journey at WPI / Rick Vaz --- 4. Education of Global Engineers and Global Citizens / E. Dan Hirleman --- 5. In Search of Something More: My Path Towards International Service-Learning in Engineering Education / Margaret F. Pinnell --- 6. International Engineering Education: The Transition from Engineering Faculty Member to True Believer / D. Joseph Mook --- 7. Finding and Educating Self and Others Across Multiple Domains: Crossing Cultures, Disciplines, Research Modalities, and Scales / Anu Ramaswami --- 8. If You Don't Go, You Don't Know / Linda D. Phillips --- 9. A Lifetime of Touches of an Elusive "Virtual Elephant": Global Engineering Education / Lester A. Gerhardt --- 10. Developing Global Awareness in a College of Engineering / Alan Parkinson --- 11. The Right Thing to Do: Graduate Education and Research in a Global and Human Context / James R. Mihelcic ---- 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 ---- A. Making explicit diverse trajectories / Gary Lee Downey --- B. Conversations without authors.
Summary 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN1608455432 (pbk.)
ISBN9781608455430 (pbk.)

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Joyner General Stacks T65 .W493 2011 ✔ Available Place Hold