What is global engineering education for? : The making of international educators. Part III /
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Author / Creator: | Downey, Gary Lee. |
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Imprint: | San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, c2011. |
Description: | 1 electronic text (p. x, 253-468 : ill.) : digital file. |
Language: | English |
Series: | Synthesis lectures on global engineering ; # 2 Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. Synthesis lectures on global engineering ; # 2. |
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Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10510960 |
Other authors / contributors: | Beddoes, Kacey. |
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ISBN: | 9781608455447 (electronic bk.) 9781608455430 (pbk.) |
Notes: | Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science. Series from website. Includes bibliographical references. Abstract freely available; full-text restricted to subscribers or individual document purchasers. Compendex INSPEC Google scholar Google book search Also available in print. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. |
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. |
Standard no.: | 10.2200/S00303ED1V01Y201010GES002 |
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