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Diverse, inclusive and caring engineering relations I

Fri, October 8, 5:00 to 6:30pm EDT (5:00 to 6:30pm EDT), 4S 2021 Virtual, 6

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This panel invites papers that studies efforts to make engineering and engineering education more inclusive, diverse and caring. Engineers engage in design, development, testing, modifying, installing, inspecting, monitoring and maintaining a wide variety of infrastructures, systems and products. They make recommendations, evaluate, supervise, consult and some of them teach future engineers in colleges and universities. Engineers potentially play a pivotal role in designing for a more diverse, inclusive and caring society in the future.
We call for papers that analyze attempts to make engineering more diverse and/or caring. This could be efforts to redefine engineering practices or engineering education. Broadly speaking, this include studies of initiatives to transform engineering practices, organizations and cultures to make them more caring, ethical, diverse and inclusive and thus helping to develop a more sustainable society that protect people, cultures, communities and environments. It also invites papers about how to make engineering more welcome and inclusive for groups and minorities. It also welcomes paper discussing the need to change the understanding of engineering and what engineers are for, what changes that are called for, and what this may mean for engineering identities. Further, we welcome critical reflections on research practices, methodologies, language and perceptions in engineering studies, including the performativity of engineering studies and reflections on what represent good relations for engineering as well as reflections on how the field may configure engineers and engineering work and education.

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