Philosophy of Engineering and Technology

Bildung is commonly represented in English with terms such as ‘character building’ or ‘character formation’. Advocates have argued that school education should prepare young people to be active citizens in society and capable of moral judgements, that education should be more than a utilitarian prep…

International professional organisations, including accreditation bodies, have stressed that a so-called skill-gap between engineering education and work exists, which increases the focus on employability in engineering education research. In this chapter, we propose a comprehensive definition of em…