The elephant in the room: constraints and consequences of a four-year undergraduate engineering degree
Engineering is the only profession for which candidates can be licensed with only an undergraduate degree. This attracts students seeking training for occupation more than education, encourages heavy non-discretionary course requirements, and relegates engineering to lower status that other professi...
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| author | Silbey, Susan S. |
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| description | Engineering is the only profession for which candidates can be licensed with only an undergraduate degree. This attracts students seeking training for occupation more than education, encourages heavy non-discretionary course requirements, and relegates engineering to lower status that other professions requiring training following an undergraduate liberal education. This focus on instrumental reasoning further isolates engineering from other more self-reflexive professions. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1040092022-09-29T20:16:27Z The elephant in the room: constraints and consequences of a four-year undergraduate engineering degree Silbey, Susan S. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Anthropology Program Silbey, Susan S. Engineering is the only profession for which candidates can be licensed with only an undergraduate degree. This attracts students seeking training for occupation more than education, encourages heavy non-discretionary course requirements, and relegates engineering to lower status that other professions requiring training following an undergraduate liberal education. This focus on instrumental reasoning further isolates engineering from other more self-reflexive professions. 2016-08-26T13:24:55Z 2016-08-26T13:24:55Z 2015-05 2015-02 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1937-8629 1940-8374 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104009 Silbey, Susan S. “The Elephant in the Room: Constraints and Consequences of a Four-Year Undergraduate Engineering Degree.” Engineering Studies 7, no. 2-3 (July 3, 2015): 164-167. en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/19378629.2015.1062488 Engineering Studies Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Taylor & Francis Prof. Silbey |
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