[INES Announce] Issue 15.1 of Engineering Studies

[Jessica Smith]

Hello INES!

I realized that many of you might not be receiving the new issue alerts from our journal Engineering Studies, so I wanted to prod you to sign up and also share the contents of 15.1. It includes an introduction from me, two “critical participation” pieces relevant to our collective work on DI&A and community engagement, and a delightful piece on engineers learning to contend with reindeer and salmon and tourists in the Arctic. A big thanks to Cyrus Mody who was the editor for the articles.

All the best,
Jessica


Jessica M. Smith (2023) Introduction to the New Editor-in-Chief, Engineering Studies, 15:1, 1-8, DOI: 10.1080/19378629.2023.2178524<https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2023.2178524>


Coleen Carrigan, Saejin Kwak Tanguay, Joyce Yen, Julie Simmons Ivy, Cara Margherio, M. Claire Horner-Devine, Eve A. Riskin & Christine S. Grant (2023) Negotiating boundaries: an intersectional collaboration to advance women academics in engineering, Engineering Studies, 15:1, 9-29, DOI: 10.1080/19378629.2023.2169613<https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2023.2169613>

This paper draws on data from the National Science Foundation (NSF) ADVANCE-funded LATTICE program (Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: an Intentional Community in Engineering) to examine how a diverse group of women worked across social and professional identities to support early-career women in academic engineering. We used ethnography to elucidate the social dynamics and power relations involved in forming a coherent group identity for the LATTICE leadership team, and the boundaries we negotiated in running the LATTICE program. We identify the processes and behaviors through which we made boundaries between members salient yet porous to build a coherent community across various dimensions of difference. We offer three actionable strategies that impact change agents’ engagement and the group’s coherence across multiple dimensions of difference: (1) intentionally creating a socio-emotional culture in our group, one that spans across group members’ personal and professional identities; (2) validating other group members’ perspectives, and (3) striving to build consensus using storytelling. These strategies of the LATTICE leadership team provide guidelines for others who work across intersecting dimensions of difference.

KEYWORDS:

  *   Collaboration<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Collaboration>
  *   engineering<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Engineering>
  *   broadening participation<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Broadening+Participation>
  *   intersectionality<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Intersectionality>
  *   ethnography<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Ethnography>
  *   emotions<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Emotions>

Jennifer Hirsch, Ruth Yow & Yi-Chin Sarah Wu (2023) Teaching students to collaborate with communities: expanding engineering education to create a sustainable future, Engineering Studies, 15:1, 30-49, DOI: 10.1080/19378629.2023.2176767<https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2023.2176767>

Engineers are crucial to solving the world’s most pressing challenges, but they cannot do it alone. Creating new and more just systems that support people and planet requires that engineers learn to engage with diverse stakeholders as equal partners. This article shares how the Serve-Learn-Sustain (SLS) initiative at the Georgia Institute of Technology has been introducing new approaches to problem-solving into engineering and technology-focused education to better prepare students to address the sustainability challenges of our moment, in collaboration with community partners, especially those from historically marginalized communities of color. To do this, SLS focuses on de-centering academic expertise and positioning community partners as experts, innovators, and co-educators. The activities and impacts described here, including course-based collaborations with community partners and co-curricular social innovation programs, have implications for other higher education institutions that recognize the importance of partnering with communities to prepare students to use their education to effect change.

KEYWORDS:

  *   Engineering education<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Engineering+Education>
  *   service learning<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Service+Learning>
  *   community partnerships<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Community+Partnerships>
  *   equity and justice<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Equity+And+Justice>
  *   social innovation<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Social+Innovation>
  *   collaboration<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Collaboration>
  *   sustainability<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Sustainability>

Bård Torvetjønn Haugland, Marianne Ryghaug & Roger Andre Søraa (2023) Framing Intelligent Transport Systems in the Arctic: Reindeer, Fish and the Engineered Road, Engineering Studies, 15:1, 50-70, DOI: 10.1080/19378629.2023.2169612<https://doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2023.2169612>

The article explores the relationship between humans and other animals, technology, and engineering practices in a project testing Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) in the arctic. Generally, roads are engineered to promote efficiency and predictability for transport. However, in the arctic northern region of Norway, animals sometimes challenge these virtues. Using Goffman’s notion of frames and Callon’s concept of overflow as theoretical starting points, the article explores how transport engineers develop intelligent transport infrastructure and envision ways of including animals and other non-humans in the engineers’ framing of the road. The engineers first and foremost implement new technological artefacts, which allow them to survey the road in a manner which makes nature’s overflows onto the road more manageable. However, these artefacts do not merely contain nature in the engineers’ frame—the engineers also envision humans, in this case, motorists, to change their practices. As such, the engineers’ attempts to contain animals in a particular frame entail using technology to assemble a new relationship between nature and culture. Taking nature into account when planning and developing infrastructure means reassembling a particular nature-culture relationship. Thus, the article points out that in order to engineer nature, it is also necessary to engineer culture.


  *   Transport engineering<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Transport+Engineering>
  *   automation<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Automation>
  *   intelligent transport systems<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Intelligent+Transport+Systems>
  *   animals<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Animals>
  *   framing<https://www.tandfonline.com/keyword/Framing>


Jessica M. Smith<https://www.jessicamsmith.net/> (she/her/hers)
Editor-in-chief, Engineering Studies<https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/test20>
Professor, Engineering, Design, and Society Department<https://www.mines.edu/eds/>
Colorado School of Mines

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