2. Instructor Information
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Name |
Ma EunJeong |
Department |
Dept. Convergence IT Engineering |
Email address |
eunjma@postech.ac.kr
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Homepage |
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Office |
C5 322 |
Office Phone |
054-279-8874 |
Office Hours |
by appointment
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3. Course Objectives
The main objectives of the course is to provide students with more knowledge and insight about:
- Complex societal, legal, ethical, political issues;
- Context and understanding motives for engineering projects and justice;
- Development of engineering throughout history;
- Interaction between innovation and society;
- Multi actor settings in engineering and innovation
Develop and improve the following skills
- Project based collaboration
- Formulating a research question
- Academic writing and presentation skills
- Buildup of a mind map of all parties involved and their conflicting interests
Cultivate global competence composed of the knowledge, ability, and predisposition
- Apply the insights learned from social sciences and humanities to engineering research and design processes.
- Design is a process that gives a rise both to artifacts and to their accompanying social networks, and design processes are collective processes in which humans and nonhumans interact.
• Brining the perspectives of science and technology studies into design and design processes
o Design is a process that gives a rise both to artifacts and to their accompanying social networks, and design processes
are collective processes in which humans and nonhumans interact.
• Applying the insights learned from social sciences and humanities to design processes
4. Prerequisites & require
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5. Grading
• Attendance (10%) and class (online) participation (20%): 30%
• Mid-term assignment: 30%
- Speculative city project(individual project)
• Final Team project: 40%
- Team project
6. Course Materials
Title |
Author |
Publisher |
Publication Year/Edition |
ISBN |
Engineering and Social Justice
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Donna Riley
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Morgan and Claypool Publishers
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2008
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7. Course References
• Social Justice and Engineering (Donna Riley), to be uploaded online
• Do Artifacts Have Politics? (Langdon Winner), to be uploaded online
• Justice as Measure of Nongovernmental Organization Success in Postdisaster Community Assistance (Barbara L. Allen), to be uploaded online
o Reading: “Design Thinking for Social Innovation” (Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt)
8. Course Plan
Module 1: Engineers, Technology/Engineering, and (Social) justice
o Weeks 1-5: Orientations, Conceptual Frameworks
o We review and examine the interrelationship between engineering projects and society (including human beings, environments, other species), by reading scholarly and popular articles and looking at historical and contemporary examples.
Module 2: Research methods: Design Thinking, Social design, Value-embedded design
o Weeks 6-8: Ethnography, design thinking, and engineering and do (virtual) exercise
o Learn about qualitative research methods such as design thinking and ethnography
o Reading: “Design Thinking for Social Innovation” (Tim Brown and Jocelyn Wyatt)
Module 3: Final Project
o Weeks 9-15: ideate, develop, and prototype
9. Course Operation
* Note: The classes will offered online and offline in combination depending on the situation.
10. How to Teach & Remark
11. Supports for Students with a Disability
- Taking Course: interpreting services (for hearing impairment), Mobility and preferential seating assistances (for developmental disability), Note taking(for all kinds of disabilities) and etc.
- Taking Exam: Extended exam period (for all kinds of disabilities, if needed), Magnified exam papers (for sight disability), and etc.
- Please contact Center for Students with Disabilities (279-2434) for additional assistance