Notes from Katy from “Toward a Critical Praxis for Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace”

  • Institute ESJP awards for students (undergrad, grad) and faculty
  • Share ESJP activities, findings, etc at more mainstream conferences
  • develop communities of practice in different countries to promote local dialogue and praxis
  • scrupling (wine & cheese) with local engineers, town hall meetings
  • encourage more students to participate in ESJP conferences
  • global north trained by the global south
  • common projects
  • community and engineers meetings
  • porting existing SJ curricular integration to other universities via students and faculty and make part of engineering design criteria
  • teach SJ via case studies
  • surveillance technology
  • complex situations need complex, but still values-based responses
  • more opportunities for faculty to participate in student activities; reward this behaviour – faculty member as mentor, help recognize academic dimension
  • networking forum – support network
  • invite experienced practitioners into the classroom [can be titled “visiting professors”]
  • train ESJP ambassadors: for going into companies, for public outreach, for embedding in engineering labs/courses, etc.
  • mining
  • working for/against corporate management
  • integrate SJ into engineering courses (when relevant to course objectives)
  • producing and sharing knowledge (eg books, workshops, key note speakers events)
  • train/educate faculty on how to integrate SHJ into their courses
  • local professional engineering society to have a voice on social justice issues
  • pro-bono engineering practice – ID existing programs, working with professional societies
  • what is ‘informed citizenry from global prospectus?
  • a global exercise: who benefits, who pays? in many classes, post answers on web
  • ASEE activism – provocative posters on SJ themes
  • Do we assume our students are unable to arrive at “the right” position?
  • Are we making SJ the only/primary focus of engineering?
  • Trust the students…