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Posted on 11/21/2018 5:29:24 AM PST by reaganaut1
In 2015, Colorado School of Mines writing instructor Dr. Jon Leydens delivered a TED talk titled “engineering and social justice.” According to Leydens, in the mid-2000s students started asking him about how they could combine their “passion for social justice” with their “interest in engineering.”
Leydens is part of a growing movement that seeks to incorporate social justice into engineering, in both the professional code and the curriculum. Far from being a marginal movement, on the fringes of the profession, it enjoys support at the highest levels.
The movement began during the Vietnam War era when left-wing engineers founded the Committee for Social Responsibility in Engineering (CSRE). According to Dean Nieusma, an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in his paper “Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace: Strategies for Pedagogical, Curricular, and Institutional Reform:”
CSRE published the newsletter/magazine SPARK, which emphasized the role of engineering in its social and political-economic context, including especially labor relations. SPARK highlighted and criticized a range of “oppressive” applications of engineering skills and technology, with particular attention paid to the connections between engineering and military. Instead of working on military projects, SPARK’s editors encouraged engineers to employ their skills toward progressive, liberatory ends.
The engineers who founded CSRE were dissatisfied with their role in the world and the careers available to them. Traditionally, most engineers worked in private industry, and many of them worked for defense contractors. For a leftist engineer suspicious of capitalism and opposed to U.S. “empire,” this presented a problem.
Initially, CSRE focused on convincing individual engineers to support their goals, for example, by not working on military projects. They also made attempts to unionize the profession and encouraged “solidarity” with other workers. However, as the movement evolved, their focus shifted.
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Separate entrances for whites and blacks?
This is troubling. Engineering is the one major in College that is so structured that there isn’t much, if any, room for SJW indoctrination. If they start forcing this stuff into the curriculum, you are going to see an end to the profession.
Never hire an engineer with a degree from a SJW Engineering School. They can go work with the Peace Corps in some 3rd World &$#^hole. Problem solved.
+1000
Engineering doesn’t care about diversity, tolerance, or whose xxxx you xxxx. No room for SJWs in engineering. People will die.
This is troubling.
Which is why I no longer hire American engineering graduates.
I’m thinking of STEM. They’ve successfully corrupted science, with climate change coming to mind.
Now it’s engineering.
Danger, danger.
Prepare for “2+2+6 - - - for large values of 2, as 2 approaches 3.”
And the square root of -4 is LGBT4U2.
Deeply confused...
My father, a grad of CSM is turning in his grave.
There was a time, from the late 19th century through the early Stalin era, when leftists were fundamentally optimistic. They thought they were building a better world. They were willing to break eggs to make omelets, but they did believe that socialism or communism would produce a more productive, more humane, happier society. Young communists at that time commonly studied engineering and scientific disciplines (as well as history, economics and the humanities if their interests ran that way) because they were going to build a better world.
That dream suffocated under the piles of corpses produced by communist regimes and the staggering inefficiencies of socialist economic management. Nobody, even on the left, any longer believes that socialism/communism will produce a freer, more humane and more prosperous society. Leftists have recentered on resentment, hate and the lust for power. Those are their motives, and the leaders know it. They only roll out the old peace, freedom and bread agenda as bait for the fools who march in their parades.
It’s essentially paradoxical. You have to be smart to be a good engineer (fact-based domain) and stupid to be a good lib (feelings based to the exclusion of fact or reason). I’m sure these lib “engineers” he talks about are mostly moles sent to contaminate and conquer the last bastion of reality available to us normals, though I have met one or two.
Engineering 201: Pipe bomb design
I visited a school of engineering recently and the Dean was the most proud of LGBT inclusiveness, not awards or scientific esteem. A lot of puffs were flitting around in the labs. Needless to say, we ended our visit early. When people value form over function and flightiness over logic, they can keep their damn college. Here’s hoping we find a school that values science over sodomy...yeah, I know.
Otherwise known as a self-indulgent exercise in verbal flatulence.
titled “engineering and social justice
"Social justice" has no place in engineering or science. None whatsoever. Anyone who suggests polluting science or engineering with "social justice" should be horsewhipped, tarred and feathered, and ridden out of town on a rail.
Bwaa haa haa. Just who and what do these two think keeps them safe at night, allows them the freedom to spout such nonsense? The cold hard truth is the world is not a safe space. And by not a safe space I mean genuinely not safe. Not, not-safe as in "I can't go to the local Starbucks anymore because of their use of plastics" non-safe space. I mean there are people in the world who would torture and behead these two just for something to do on a Tuesday kind of non-safe space.
Snowflakes like these need warriors - and the engineers & technicians that provide the warriors tools and training - to protect their delicate selves.
The really funny thing about this is the entire notion of engineers being SJWs. No, just no. I've been an engineer for over 3 decades. Actually all my life, I just didn't know it until I went to college for my first engineering degree. There may be a relative few SJWs out there that call themselves engineers, but they're not really engineers and not a statistically relevant percentage of the profession. Real engineers focus on facts, figures, and objective reality not feelings and social issues, and all the other assorted BS associated with SJWs. In fact the whole SJW thing is anathema to real engineers. There's no rules, no algorithm, no solve it and move on resolution, no new technology...
I know what you're thinking - I'm just repeating and espousing stereotypes about engineers. You know what, you're right. You know why, because they (the stereotypes) are right. The really good engineers, the ones that know their stuff, love engineering and problem solving, the ones that actually make a difference to their companies, projects, peers? Guess what, they virtually all fit into one or more stereotypes about engineers. Sure, there are engineers out there that and merely mediocre engineers. They may have gotten into it for the $ or by default 'cause their parents or friends were, etc. They may not fit the stereotypes but they also barely qualify as engineers. Real engineers don't do it because it is a good job or pays well etc. Real engineers are engineers because that's just who and what we are. We're the ones pushing the shopping cart through the store thinking "I'll bet I could make this lighter and less likely to jumble everything at the back crushing my bread..." We really, honestly don't give a rip about any SJW "cause du-jour" it's not interesting. You tell us you want a new water purification system now that might be fun. You start talking about how corporate farming is oppressing people and we tune out. We'll sit there and nod apparently attentively, but we're really only using maybe 5% of our conscious thought process to track your blathering, meanwhile we're thinking about something interesting, like fixing that python script, or maybe getting that set of impact sockets, and I need to see if there are any new developments in LED flashlight technology in the past couple of months...
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