Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities : Have Their Conversations Come of Age?

Chapter 1. General Introduction: Scholarly Motives for Entering into a Conversation between Engineering, Social Science, and the Humanities

Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Anders Buch, Eddie Conlon, Christelle Didier, Carl Mitcham, and Mike Murphy

Part I.  Achievements resulting from the Conversation between Engineering, Social Science, and the Humanities

Chapter 2. Engineering: A Challenging and Challenged Profession

William Grimson , Jane Grimson, and Mike Murphy

Chapter 3. Institutionalizing Engineering Education Research: Comparing Australia, China, and the United States

Brent Jesiek, Jenni Case, Mike Klassen, and Lina Zheng

Chapter 4. Waste Management as a Post-normal Issue

Fanny Verrax

Chapter 5. When Do Engineers Revolt? Engineering Practice and the Comparative History of Engineers and Social Movements

William T. Lynch

Part II.  Disagreements and Failures in Conversation

Chapter 6. The C.P. Snow Controvercy

Alan Cheville

Chapter 7. Social Sciences and Engineering at a Turning Point?

Cynthia Colmellere 

Chapter 8. The Two Cultures of Engineering Education: Looking back and moving forward

Diana Martin and Madeline Polmear

Chapter 9. Rethinking the Paradigm of Engineering in Social Projects: Contributions from Anthropology and the Gender Perspective

Natalia Zlachevsky

Chapter 10. An Opportunity for Bridging Engineering, Humanities, and Social Science Cultures through Techno-Anthropology: A Case Study Approach

Tom Børsen

Chapter 11. Reflections on the Use of Theory in Engineering Education Research: Interdisciplinary Challenges and Comparisons

Kacey Beddoes

Chapter 12. Social Justice in Engineering: In or out of Place?

Mike Murphy and Steen Hyldgaard Christensen

Chapter 13. Engineering Ethics: The Individualistic Approach and How Social Theory Could Help us to Do Better

Eddie Conlon

Chapter 14. A Critique: Report of the Nasem Committee of Integrating Higher Education in the Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Engineering and Medicine

Louis L. Bucciarelli and David Drew

Part III.  Blind Spots and uncovered Issues

Chapter 15. Transition from Engineering Education to Practice: A Research Agenda

James Trevelyan 

Chapter 16. The Non-Conversations between Engineering, Social Science, and the Humanities

Carl Mitcham

Chapter 17. Using Socio-cultural Theory to Gain a better Understanding of Barriers to Change in Engineering Education

Marie Magnell

Chapter 18. Social Reproduction and Ranking in French high Level Engineering Schools

Marie-Pierre Bès and Luc Lefort

Chapter 19. Engineering Myths in China and the West

Glen Miller, Michael Portal and XU Xin

Chapter 20. Culture and Nature: How Engineering (Philosophy) might Bridge the Gap

Anders Buch

Chapter 21. Engineering in Partnership with Social Sciences and Humanities: Realising more Valuable and Valued Disciplines and Professions in Facing Contemporary (Un)Sustainability Challenges

Edmund Byrne, Connor McGookin, Alexandra Revez, Niall Dunphy, Claire O'Neill, Kieran Keohane, John Barry, Brian Ó Gallachóir, and Gerard Mullally

Chapter 22. Tissue Engineering and the Bioconstruction of artificial Human Organs

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