Engineering Justice

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Author(s): Joe Grimes (California Polytechnic State University, USA)and Mark Grimes (University of California – Santa Barbara, USA)
Copyright: 2014
Pages: 23
Source title: Approaches to Managing Organizational Diversity and Innovation
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Nancy D. Erbe (California State University, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-6006-9.ch001

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Human Resources Development / Human Resources Management

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This chapter addresses how the field of engineering has the potential of being a major force for social justice and how that may be accomplished. With their placement in a wide-range of occupations and job sites and with engineering professionals from many diverse countries, engineers are strategically located for societal impact. Engineers are naturally suited for problem solving and this propensity can be awakened to issues broader than those advanced by an employer or client. Educators can help engineers to think critically about how to think in socially just ways and how solutions will affect people. This chapter demonstrates how educational and training programs may be built around the understanding of the engineering profession and of the use of innovative instructional strategies that inspire and excite an engineer during the learning process. This chapter includes examples of instructional modules that may be used to accomplish these goals.

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