Client-facing Interprofessional Project Teams: The Role of Engineers’ ‘Situated Judgment’

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

Engineering Studies Pub Date : 2021-09-02 DOI:10.1080/19378629.2021.2005073

Rachel J. Wilde, D. Guile

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Abstract

This paper addresses the type of engineering practice associated with ‘client-focused interprofessional project teams’ C-fIPPTs which is a typical pattern of work associated with engineering consulting companies. To do so, the article introduces the concepts of ‘situated judgment’ and ‘immaterial activity’ to the Engineering Studies community. It uses these concepts to demonstrate how engineers with different specialisms, working alongside architects, interior designers, etc., resolve competing conceptions of value among members to enable teams to accomplish project-specific issues. The article makes the above argument by drawing on observational data, interviews and field notes to illustrate the immaterial dimension (i.e. converting non-costed ideas into solutions to problems) of such situated judgments. The article concludes by firstly, explaining how the argument it advances about the distinctive features of engineering work contributes to a broadening of research on engineers work practice and, in doing so, the contribution that engineering studies can make to the field of workplace learning. Secondly, the article highlights the implications of its argument for engineering education and workplace learning.

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面向客户的跨专业项目团队：工程师“情境判断”的作用

本文介绍了与“以客户为中心的跨专业项目团队”C-fIPPT相关的工程实践类型，这是与工程咨询公司相关的典型工作模式。为此，本文向工程研究界介绍了“情境判断”和“非物质活动”的概念。它使用这些概念来展示不同专业的工程师如何与建筑师、室内设计师等合作，解决成员之间相互竞争的价值观，使团队能够完成特定项目的问题。本文通过利用观察数据、访谈和现场笔记来说明这种情境判断的非物质维度（即将无成本的想法转化为问题的解决方案），从而提出了上述论点。文章的结论是：首先，解释了它提出的关于工程工作独特特征的论点如何有助于拓宽对工程师工作实践的研究，以及在这样做的过程中，工程研究可以对工作场所学习领域做出的贡献。其次，文章强调了其论点对工程教育和职场学习的启示。

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来源期刊

Engineering Studies ENGINEERING, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

CiteScore

3.60

自引率

17.60%

发文量

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?