Engineering, Technology and Culture: with an Emphasis on Race, Gender and the Individual

该项目的目的是使社会科学和人文科学对工程专业的学生更有意义，包括女性和代表性不足的少数民族。作为通识教育课程的一部分，开设一门独特的跨学科和多元文化的工程课程，是改革本科工程教育的一种努力。这门名为“技术与文化”的课程将具体的工程设计置于种族、性别和个人的社会和政治背景下。该课程旨在让技术专业的学生更好地了解他们学科的文化、历史和政治背景。同时，它使人文社会科学的学生更好地理解科学和工程的方法和能力。该项目提倡新的跨学科教学方法，鼓励教师尝试以不同的方式将多元文化多样性和性别问题纳入他们的课程。它寻求工程学院、文科和理科学院的教员、部门和委员会的合作。它通过一系列强调文化敏感性培训和跨学科教学方法的教师发展讲习班来加强这种合作。该项目还促进了其他课程的教学改革，这些课程将工程和科学与人文和社会科学学科相结合。

The aim of this project is to make the social sciences and humanities more meaningful to engineering students, including women and underrepresented minorities. It is an effort to reform undergraduate engineering education by offering a unique interdisciplinary and multi-cultural diversity engineering course as part of the general education curriculum. The course, entitled "Technology and Culture", places specific engineering designs within the social and political context of race, gender and individuals. The course is designed to give technical students a better understanding of the cultural, historical and political context of their disciplines. At the same time it gives humanities and social science students a better understanding of the methods and capabilities of science and engineering. The project promotes new interdisciplinary teaching methods and encourages faculty to experiment with different ways of incorporating multi-cultural diversity and gender issues into their courses. It enlists the cooperation of faculty, departments and committees across the colleges of engineering and the liberal arts and sciences. It reinforces this cooperation through a series of faculty development workshops emphasizing cultural sensitivity training and interdisciplinary teaching methods. The project also serves as a catalyst for reform for the teaching of other courses that integrate engineering and science with disciplines in the humanities and the social sciences.