EAN: 9783031791956

SYNTHESIS LECTURES ON ENGINEERING SCIENCE AND T...

Pragmatism attends to the practical outcomes of what we think and do  the social community in
which we practice  and the bases of experience to inform our ideas and practices. Practice
theories help explain what we do as complex systems of activity. Together  pragmatism and
practice theories help broaden our understanding of the nature of engineering work as a social
practice having important consequences for individuals and society. The practical nature of
engineering embedded in our complex social and community systems is emphasized. Of all the
pragmatists John Dewey's influence on education has been the most profound.He promoted social
democracy in education. Although he founded experimental schools with this as their goal of
major interest  to engineering educators his promotion of problem solving through a form of
inquiry is his major attraction. Its modern embodiment is problem-based learning. It requires
teachers to become facilitators of learning rather than transmitters of knowledge. How  within
the framework of a traditionally oriented curriculum Dewey's epistemology of inquiry-based
learning might be introduced is discussed. Lonergan's basic method of the human mind underlying
specialized methods offers a basis for a unified theory and pedagogy of engineering. It also
provides for a conception of engineering that gives due recognition to its ethical character
and to the need for engineering virtues. This knowing-based view of engineering  focused on
engineering insight  provides the basis for a core  discipline-neutral approach to
engineering.It proposes an engineering education centered on norms inherent to the knowing
process  specifically attentiveness and intentionality. These norms in turn provide a source
for defining and developing engineering virtues and character.

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