2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society) / Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering design--Congresses.

Engineering design.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Other Title:

2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and

2015 Conference on Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and (Re)Training Engineers for Participatory Design (Engineering4Society)

Raising Awareness for the Societal and Environmental Role of Engineering and

Place of Publication:

Piscataway, NJ : IEEE, 2015.

Summary:

Technology plays an important role in facing societal challenges Also engineers can contribute to the development of solutions, provided that they are well aware of the societal and environmental context and willing to amplify their participatory skills The role of engineering as the driver of innovation and social and economic development, and the need to transform engineering education, curricula and teaching methods in order to emphasize user relevance and a problem solving approach to engineering The social sector today is confronted with a growing number of problems that would benefit from engineering input Engineering education today has little or no focus on topics such as poverty, exclusion, addiction, discrimination, violence prevention, reconciliation or disabilities Still, engineering can contribute to build innovative solutions and it has to do this in participation with all stakeholders Building bridges between engineering and the societal challenges.

Contents:

[Front cover]

[Copyright notice]

Introduction

Table of contents

List of authors

Learning to shape places of care by empathising with patients and caregivers

Establishing a collaboration between care providers and engineers

Including design for all in computing and telecommunication engineering studies in Spain

Experiences from a Master's Degree in Assistive Technology for Independent Living

Higher Education Institutions as international hubs in community service engineering innovation networks a European Lifelong Learning Program project

Investigating 3E-materials at Agbogbloshie in Accra, Ghana

Mobilizing disability experience to inform architectural education lessons learned from a field experiment.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781467368445

146736844X