This inclusive cross-cultural research rethinks the nexus among engineering schooling and context. In so doing the e-book bargains a mirrored image on contextual barriers with an total boundary crossing ambition and juxtaposes vital circumstances of serious participation inside engineering schooling with subtle scholarly mirrored image on either possibilities and discontents.

Whether and in what means engineering schooling is or needs to be contextualized or de-contextualized is an item of heated debate between engineering educators. the individuality of this examine is this debate is given entire assurance – offering either instrumentally susceptible in addition to radical positions on remodeling engineering education.

In contextualizing engineering schooling, this ebook deals different observation from quite a number disciplinary, meta- and interdisciplinary views on how cultural, specialist, institutional and academic structures contexts form histories, structural dynamics, ideologies and demanding situations in addition to new pathways in engineering schooling. issues addressed contain interpreting engineering schooling in international locations starting from India to the USA, to racial and gender fairness in engineering schooling and incorporating social expertise into the area.

Using context as “bridge” this ebook confronts engineering schooling head on. Contending engineering ideologies and corresponding perspectives on context are juxtaposed with contending discourses of reform. the distinctiveness of the publication is that it brings jointly students from the arts, the social sciences and engineering from Europe – either East and West –  with the U.S., China, Brazil, India and Australia.