Engineering for Development as Borderland Activity

IF 2 3区工程技术 Q2 EDUCATION, SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINES

Engineering Studies Pub Date : 2020-01-02 DOI:10.1080/19378629.2019.1699931

P. Robbins, D. Wield, Gordon Wilson

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Abstract

ABSTRACT The paper aims to build understanding of the recent growth of interest in engineering for international development as an emerging focus of new knowledge, practice, and community development. In the paper, we create a borderlands approach to studying the activities referred to as engineering for development and development engineering. These activities take place in ‘borderland’ spaces where new approaches are being tried out through creative engagement of networks and communities willing to integrate social as well as technical knowledge and practice. We analyze four cases, selected as exemplars of engineering for development, from a large data set of case studies to demonstrate the socio-economic impact of research. We found evidence of important and original engineering, which showed paradigmatic shifts in engineering knowledge and practice. There was ambivalence inside the engineering community about engineering quality, mixing pride in the building of new paradigms with modesty about whether new knowledge and practices were ‘real’ engineering. These findings provide evidence that engineering aimed at global development offers an exciting new ‘borderlands’ approach to engineering that warrants further study.

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作为边境活动的发展工程

摘要：本文旨在了解国际发展工程作为新知识、实践和社区发展的一个新兴焦点的兴趣最近的增长。在本文中，我们创建了一种边界方法来研究被称为开发工程和开发工程的活动。这些活动发生在“边界地带”，通过愿意整合社会和技术知识与实践的网络和社区的创造性参与，正在尝试新的方法。我们从大量案例研究数据集中分析了四个案例，这些案例被选为开发工程的范例，以证明研究的社会经济影响。我们发现了重要的原始工程的证据，这些证据表明工程知识和实践发生了典型的转变。工程界内部对工程质量存在矛盾心理，既对建立新范式感到自豪，又对新知识和实践是否是“真正的”工程感到谦虚。这些发现提供了证据，证明旨在全球发展的工程为工程提供了一种令人兴奋的新“边界地带”方法，值得进一步研究。

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Engineering Studies ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

17.60%

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审稿时长

>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?