Discovering the role of engineering in the world: a new teaching experience focused on New York City and civil engineering
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Bibliographic Details
| Author(s): |
Ignacio Payá-Zaforteza
(Icitech, Universitat Politècnica València, Valencia, Spain Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA)
Catherine Eiben (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) Michael Littman (Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, USA) |
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| Medium: | conference paper | ||||
| Language(s): | English | ||||
| Conference: | IABSE Conference: Structural Engineering: Providing Solutions to Global Challenges, Geneva, Switzerland, September 2015 | ||||
| Published in: | IABSE Conference Geneva 2015 | ||||
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| Page(s): | 342-343 | ||||
| Total no. of pages: | 2 | ||||
| Year: | 2015 | ||||
| DOI: | 10.2749/222137815818357313 | ||||
| Abstract: |
“Engineering in the modern world” is a Princeton University course taken by engineers and non-engineers. It explains how engineering has shaped culture and society and how engineering innovations have been influenced by social, scientific, political, ethical, and aesthetic requirements. Engineering is understood in a broad sense that includes structures, machines, networks and processes. The course uses several methodologies such as master lectures, seminars and labs. This paper explains a new approach followed in one of the seminar groups. A group was created that focused on the role of civil engineering in shaping New York City (NYC) and delved into the relationships between engineering, society, politics and aesthetics in selected NYC’s works. The paper presents the teaching methodologies used during the seminar and discusses the success of the new approach. |
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| Keywords: |
aesthetics engineering society New York City politics
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