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Contribution to Book
Filming Engineers
Engineering in Context (2009)
  • Jen Schneider, Colorado School of Mines
Abstract

Film and media studies have been substantial fields in liberal arts education since the 1970s. It is only in the last decade, however, that engineering educators have begun to pay attention to the importance of these fields for how they might provide future engineers and applied scientists with valuable interpretive, communicative, and ethical competencies. Given that engineers trained in the United States and abroad are expected not only to exhibit excellent design skills but also management abilities and cultural fluency, film studies offer these students the opportunity to develop all three. Exposing students to film can broaden their understanding of complex historical, cultural, and ethical issues, train them in key forms of visual literacy, and educate them about how technologies make meaning in the world. This chapter suggests three approaches that engineering educators might consider when incorporating film into the engineering curriculum.

Keywords
  • film; cinema; film history; science and technology studies; engineering ethics
Disciplines
Publication Date
2009
Editor
Steen Hyldgaard Christensen, Bernard Delahousse, Martin Meganck
Publisher
Academica
ISBN
9788776757007
Publisher Statement
This is an author-produced, peer-reviewed version of this article. The final, definitive version of this document can be found in Engineering in Context, published by Academica. Copyright restrictions may apply.
Citation Information
Jen Schneider. "Filming Engineers" Copenhagen, DenmarkEngineering in Context (2009)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/jen_schneider/20/