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Part of the book series: Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology (SLEST)
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Jerry W. Gravander is Associate Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences and Distinguished Service Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Clarkson University. He has undergraduate degrees in chemistry from Illinois Institute of Technology and in philosophy from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and a Ph.D. in the history and philosophy of science from the University of Texas at Austin. He has written and presented widely on liberal education for engineering students, as well as engineering ethics and the impacts of science and technology on society. He was the 1996 recipient of the Sterling Olmsted Award of the American Society for Engineering Education’s Liberal Education Division.
Gregory Bassett is a lecturer in philosophy at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He received a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Indiana University, a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory, and a B.A in Philosophy from Swarthmore College. Dr. Bassett’s research interests are primarily focused on ethics and action theory, including topics such as weakness of will and the relationship of desire and action.
John Krupczak, Jr. is a professor of engineering at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He has been a Senior Fellow of the Center for the Advancement of the Scholarship of Engineering Education (CASEE) of the National Academy of Engineering. Krupczak was founding chair of the Technological and Engineering Literacy Division of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). From 2013–2016 he served as a Program Director in the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation. Krupczak received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts and a B.A. in Physics from Williams College.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy and Engineering Education
Book Subtitle: New Perspectives, An Introduction
Authors: John Heywood, William Grimson, Jerry W. Gravander, Gregory Bassett, John Krupczak
Series Title: Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-03761-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Synthesis Collection of Technology (R0), eBColl Synthesis Collection 11
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-03751-1Published: 05 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-03761-0Published: 31 May 2022
Series ISSN: 2690-0300
Series E-ISSN: 2690-0327
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 54
Topics: Engineering Design, Materials Engineering, Professional & Vocational Education