Anyone, but not Everyone: Undergraduate Engineering Students’ Claims of Who Can Do Engineering

IF 2 3区 工程技术 Q2 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES Engineering Studies Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI:10.1080/19378629.2020.1795181
Jacqueline Rohde, D. Satterfield, Miguel Rodriguez, Allison Godwin, G. Potvin, L. Benson, Adam Kirn
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This paper examines students’ claims about who can become an engineer and what it takes in engineering culture to be successful. Through longitudinal interviews with 20 undergraduate engineering students, we found that participants’ descriptions of who can ‘do’ engineering were paradoxical. Participants simultaneously maintained that ‘anyone’ could do engineering and that individuals must also possess certain characteristics to become engineers. This study connects these students’ responses to broader conversations regarding social advancement and meritocratic values within U.S. engineering culture. Participants’ responses reflect a definition of engineering that may on the surface appear open but is in practice exclusionary to individuals who do not conform to certain expectations. While many discussions of culture in engineering focus on the values and practices of ‘core’ members such as faculty or practicing engineers, it is imperative to consider the understandings that students bring to their university and enact while being enculturated into the engineering profession. This study contributes to the literature by examining the ways cultural values are upheld and reified among undergraduate engineering students.
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任何人,但不是所有人:工科本科生对谁能做工程的主张
本文考察了学生关于谁能成为一名工程师的说法,以及在工程文化中取得成功需要什么。通过对20名工科本科生的纵向访谈,我们发现参与者对谁能“做”工程的描述是矛盾的。与会者同时认为,“任何人”都可以做工程,个人也必须具备某些特征才能成为工程师。这项研究将这些学生的反应与美国工程文化中关于社会进步和精英价值观的更广泛的对话联系起来。参与者的回答反映了工程学的定义,表面上看起来是开放的,但实际上是排斥那些不符合某些期望的个人的。虽然许多关于工程文化的讨论集中在“核心”成员(如教师或实践工程师)的价值观和实践上,但考虑到学生在融入工程专业的过程中给大学带来的理解和制定的理解是必要的。本研究通过考察文化价值观在工程本科学生中被维护和具体化的方式,为文献做出了贡献。
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Engineering Studies
Engineering Studies ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
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3.60
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17.60%
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12
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>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Engineering Studies is an interdisciplinary, international journal devoted to the scholarly study of engineers and engineering. Its mission is threefold: 1. to advance critical analysis in historical, social, cultural, political, philosophical, rhetorical, and organizational studies of engineers and engineering; 2. to help build and serve diverse communities of researchers interested in engineering studies; 3. to link scholarly work in engineering studies with broader discussions and debates about engineering education, research, practice, policy, and representation. The editors of Engineering Studies are interested in papers that consider the following questions: • How does this paper enhance critical understanding of engineers or engineering? • What are the relationships among the technical and nontechnical dimensions of engineering practices, and how do these relationships change over time and from place to place?
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