Cultivating Technological Stewardship to Change the Culture of Engineering

Abstract

This paper describes the Canada-based Engineering Change Lab’s (ECL) approach to transform engineering culture towards becoming more proactive and skillful stewards of technology. We stress the need to grow ethical thinking and social responsibility in the engineering profession, and then describe two of ECL’s recently proposed projects in collaboration with the University of Waterloo’s Council for Responsible Innovation and Technology to cultivate Technological Stewardship principles in the engineering community.