Engineering Education for Social Justice: Critical Explorations and Opportunities

Front Matter....Pages i-vi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Introduction....Pages 3-15
Front Matter....Pages 17-17
Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace: Strategies for Educational and Professional Reform....Pages 19-40
Power. Systems. Engineering. Traveling Lines of Resistance in Academic Institutions....Pages 41-63
Front Matter....Pages 65-65
The (Mis)Framing of Social Justice: Why Ideologies of Depoliticization and Meritocracy Hinder Engineers’ Ability to Think About Social Injustices....Pages 67-84
What Can Buddhism Offer to a Socially Just Engineering Education?....Pages 85-109
How Can Engineering Students Learn to Care? How Can Engineering Faculty Teach to Care?....Pages 111-131
Front Matter....Pages 133-133
Crossing Knowledge Boundaries and Thresholds: Challenging the Dominant Discourse Within Engineering Education....Pages 135-152
Connecting the “Forgotten”: Transportation Engineering, Poverty, and Social Justice in Sun Valley, Colorado....Pages 153-177
Integrating Social Justice into Engineering Education from the Margins: Guidelines for Addressing Sources of Faculty Resistance to Social Justice Education....Pages 179-200
Front Matter....Pages 201-201
What Can Engineering Systems Teach Us About Social (In)Justices? The Case of Public Transportation Systems....Pages 203-226
Exceptional Engineering: Challenges and Opportunities for Socially Just Engineering in Non-governmental Organizations in Colombia....Pages 227-242
A Framework for Social Justice in Renewable Energy Engineering....Pages 243-267
Front Matter....Pages 269-269
The Road Ahead: Questions and Pathways for Future Teaching and Research in ESJ....Pages 271-285
Back Matter....Pages 287-290