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  1. Workspace

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  2. Global PACE vehicle design student project (2005-2006)

    09 Jan. 2008 | Animations | Contributor(s): Jan Helge Bøhn

    During the 2005-2006 academic year, more than 160 students from 14 universities in eight countries worked together to design a concept vehicle for General Motors. This two-minute video briefly describes this project. It was made in December 2005. MORE DETAILS: During the 2005-2006 academic …

  3. Call for papers: International Conference on Technologies of Globalization (Oct. 30-31, 2008)

    20 Feb. 2008 | Publications | Contributor(s): Jan Helge Bøhn

    Presently (re-)shaping social life as well as economics and science, the effects of globalization are in their turn – and in manifold ways – related to and in fact highly dependent on technology. The first International Conference of the DFG-Research Group "Topologies of Technology" seeks to …

  4. Is Engineering at Risk of Declining into Technical Support?: From 'Problem-Solving' to 'Problem Definition and Solution' in Engineering Education

    18 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Justification and strategies for integrating problem definition into engineering education.

  5. Engineering Cultures® Online 2.0

    20 Mar. 2008 | Courses | Contributor(s): Gary Downey, Juan Lucena

    Engineering Cultures® Online 2.0 consists of multimedia modules that explore what it means to be an engineer in different countries. These interesting modules include essential contents from the highly popular course that Gary Downey and Juan Lucena developed at Virginia Tech and Colorado School …

  6. Engineers in Germany 1: Emergence of Two Dominant Images

    18 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Three questions; Rise and fall of the Holy Roman Empire; From arts to reason; Two dominant images of engineers; Rise of industry under the 2nd Reich.

  7. Engineers in Germany 2: Rise of Industry and Scientific Technology

    18 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Greater status in the Weimar Republic; German resistance to patents; Engineers and National Socialism; Engineers became pillars of post-WWII German society.

  8. Engineers in Germany 3: Rise to Prominence

    18 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey, Juan Lucena

    German education; high percentage of engineering students are men; Germany, competitiveness, and globalization

  9. Engineers in France 1: Rise of the Centralized State

    19 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Three dominant images; Dominant patterns among engineers; Development of coherent French identity; Concentration of authority in the monarch; Louis XIV: 1643-1715; A changing context for the state; Enlightenment: nature as mechanism; Philosophes: extend reason to useful arts.

  10. Engineers in France 2: Emergence of the State Engineer

    19 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Two related hierarchies; Emergence of engineering in the military; Significance of education; French Revolution; École Polytechnique; Grandes Écoles; Who should lead society toward perfection?; Fifth Republic

  11. Engineers in France 3:Two Overlapping Hierarchies

    19 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    People with practical knowledge and training?; Écoles des Arts et Metiers; Positioning French industry; Direct sponsorship after WWII; École Centrale des Arts et Manufactures; Building careers in industry; A student's pathway; Engineering education; Pressures for change after the Cold War.

  12. Engineers in Japan 1: Introduction: A World without Individuals

    19 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Some dominant cultural images in Japan.

  13. Engineers in Japan 2: Life as an Engineer in Japan

    19 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    What's it like to work as an Engineer in Japan; Introduction to Chikako Takeshita; Engineering training; Beginning employment; "Salarymen"; Identifying oneself in conversations; Trust and acceptance in business; Working in the midst of hierarchy; Make sure you suffer; What does group effort mean?; …

  14. Engineers in Japan 3: Cultural History and Personhood in Japan

    19 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    The Japanese live with anxiety; Pre-colonial organization; Meiji Restoration; Japanese expansion to avoid subservience; Ie = household; Uchi = center of belonging; Examples of Ie; Becoming a mature person; The 'heart' in two cultures; Obligations to parents: the foundation of all rewarding …

  15. Engineers in Japan 4: Morality in Japan

    19 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    he Japanese are 'unprincipled'; No recognized separation of the moral order from the actual; What then is the ultimate goal in everyday life?; Religions in Japan: Buddhism, Shintoism; Japan is now changing rapidly.

  16. Engineers in Britian: Emergence from the shop

    19 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Main points: A solution to the Victorian Paradox---19th century; Three quotes about the apprenticeship system; Training inside 'cells'; Professional societies to increase status; Development of academic education; Minimal relationships with government; Current issues.

  17. Engineers in the Soviet Union/Russia 1: Engineering with Politics

    20 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Soviet Union was built as an alternative to capitalism; Engineers and engineering work always had political meaning.

  18. Engineers in the Soviet Union/Russia 2: Dreams of an Alternative to Capitalism: Marxism, Socialism, Anarchism

    20 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations

    Tsarist Russia; Engineers under the Tsar?; Peter Palchinsky; 1905 Revolution; 1917 Revolution(s); Socialism; Marxism; Anarchism; History of Anarchist Theory; Politics Influencing People's Lives; Tensions by 1917.

  19. Engineers in the Soviet Union/Russia 3: Palchinsky 1, 2, and 3: Tsarist Russia, the Provisional Government, and the Soviet Union under Lenin

    20 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Palchinsky 1: Tsarist Russia: Included workers in his study of mining production; Humanitarian Engineering; Palchinsky returns to work under the Tsar Palchinsky 2: Provisional Government: Tsar abdicates, Duma appoints provisional government; Rise of the Bolsheviks Palchinsky 3: The Soviet Union …

  20. Engineers in the Soviet Union/Russia 4: Palchinsky 4: Stalinism and beyond

    20 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Rise of Stalin; Eliminate bourgeois specialists; Unique technocracy under Stalin; Forced industrialization; Examples of large-scale projects; Narrowing definition of engineering work; Narrow engineers no longer a threat to Stalin; A country run by engineers but . . .; Conclusion.

  21. Engineers in the United States 1: The civil engineer as Lone Ranger

    20 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Introduction: excavating disciplines; Developing a workforce of civil engineers: Early association with government: 1810s-1840s; Development of civil engineers: British model; Development of civil engineers: French model; Civil engineers as professionals?; A Lone Ranger in two ways; Example: …

  22. Engineers in the United States 2: The Morrill Land Grant Act and case study of a land-grant institution

    20 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Introduction: Congress passed 3 key acts in 1862; General provisions of the Act; Educational provisions of the Act; Rapid expansion in the number of schools; Allocating the funds in Virginia; Initial mission: to serve 'industrial classes' broadly; Struggle to get beyond practical education; New …

  23. Engineers in the United States 3, Part 1: Born in the shop: American capitalism

    20 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Evolution of American capitalism: Pre-industrial America, pre-1810; Machine shops 1810s-1840s; Manufacturing shops 1840s-1880s; Rise of corporate capitalism 1880s-1920s; 'Fordism': Corporate capitalism 1920s-1960s; Multinational capitalism 1960s-present.

  24. Engineers in the United States 4: Origin of the tension between design and manufacturing

    24 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Introduction: history as excavation to understand the present; Design vs. manufacturing; Emergence of the separation of design from manufacturing; General Motors purchases DELCO in 1916; DELCO and engine design; Locating DELCO in General Motors; DELCO champions copper-cooled engine design; …

  25. Introduction to Engineering Cultures

    20 Mar. 2008 | Online Presentations | Contributor(s): Gary Downey

    Culture as dominant images; Dominant self-image of engineers: Rational problem solver, no politics; A Method for Engineering: Problem Solving with People; Conclusion: Are you willing to put your perspective at risk in the context of other perspectives?

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