ARTICLE REFLECTION AS AN ENGINEER

As engineers, it is important for us to understand how our work affects the communities that we serve (and unintentionally not serve) and how we can improve our designs to better serve these communities. As such, increasing our awareness and knowledge about socio-cultural issues affecting different populations is fundamental to our practice.

• Read one of the papers posted below.
• Write a short reflection (500 words minimum) about what you learned from reading the paper and how that could potentially impact you as an engineer.

Please note that the assignment is not asking for a summary of the paper. Pure summaries will be returned to the students without any credit.

Papers:

• Canons_against_Cannons_Riley2015.pdf
• Do artifacts have politics.pdf
• Engineering, social justice & peace (Catalano & Baillie, 2006).pdf
• misframing of social justice_cech2013.pdf
• Thompson_Expectation-and-Exclusion_OHQ-Winter-2019.pdf