Engineers for Korea (Synthesis Lectures on Global Engineering)

This book follows the fraught attempts of engineers to identify with Korea as a whole. It is for engineers, both Korean and non-Korean, who seek to become better critical analysts of their own expertise, identities, and commitments. It is for non-engineers who encounter or are affected by Korean engineers and engineering, and want to understand and engage them. It is for researchers who serve as critical participants in the making of engineers and puzzle over the contents and effects of techno-national formation.

Kyonghee Han received her Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at Yonsei University and is now an assistant professor in the Engineering Education Innovation Center at Yonsei University. She teaches Engineering and Society and Engineering Ethics in the College of Engineering. She has conducted research on how the social roles and identities of engineering and engineers have formed and changed. Her recent research examines how engineers have recognized and changed their sense of social responsibility in relation to a series of technological controversies that have taken place in Korea. She also develops and operates various programs to promote the innovation of engineering curricula.Gary Downey is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Science and Technology Studies and affiliated professor of Womens and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech. A mechanical engineer (B.S., Lehigh) and cultural anthropologist (Ph.D., University of Chicago), he is the author of The Machine in Meand co-editor of Cyborgs and Citadels and What Is Global Engineering Education For? He edits the Engineering Studies Series (MIT Press), Global Engineering Series (Morgan & Claypool Publishers), and Engineering Studies journal (Routledge/Taylor & Francis). He is co-founder of the International Network for Engineering Studies, as well as founder of the Engineering Cultures course. He serves as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science (2013-2015).