Engineering Studies Journal

Decolonizing engineering means centering Indigenous & non-dominant knowledges, resisting neutrality & reclaiming community leadership. #EngineeringJustice #Decoloniality #EngEd

From Rhodes Must Fall in South Africa to Truth & Reconciliation in Canada, local histories shape how decolonization enters engineering classrooms. This comparative essay invites reflection & action. 🔗 #d1e172" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Decolonization is not a metaphor—it demands rethinking engineering’s purposes, practices & ties to Land, people & power. #DecolonizingEducation #EngineeringStudies #STS

🌍 New in Engineering Studies! How do colonial legacies shape engineering education in Australia, Canada, South Africa & the US? Masta, Seniuk Cicek, Kloot & Goldfinch explore tensions, contexts & commitments of decolonization. 🔗 #d1e172" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

From public transit equity to racial bias in tech, students redefined what “counts” as engineering. Disrupting depoliticization, dualism & meritocracy opens new paths for belonging. #EngineeringJustice #Sociotechnical

What happens when students integrate identity, bias, and responsibility into their projects? Sociotechnical curricula help them see engineering as always political, social, and technical. 🔗 tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #EquityInSTEM #EngEd

Engineering’s “culture of disengagement” often sidelines politics & equity. This study shows how sociotechnical approaches foster a culture of engagement that values lived experiences & justice. #EngineeringEducation #STS

🚨 New in Engineering Studies! How can engineering education move beyond neutrality & meritocracy? Desen S. Özkan examines how first-year students engage with a sociotechnical curriculum to navigate power, equity & belonging. 🔗  tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

This is an important contribution to STS, critical engineering education, and feminist technoscience. If you're working on gender, knowledge production, or higher education reform, don’t miss it. 📚 #EngineeringStudies #STS #GenderInSTEM #FeministSTS

The article offers an embodied and spatial approach to understanding epistemic injustice in engineering education — highlighting how belonging is not just social or intellectual, but deeply physical. 🧍🏽‍♀️📐💭

New article in Engineering Studies! Andrea Vera-Gajardo & Consuelo Dinamarca Noack explore how gender, embodiment & space shape engineering students’ experiences in Chile. “Space Invaders in Engineering” asks: who belongs—and who’s seen as “out of place”? tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

🎯 Through 21 in-depth interviews, this study sheds light on the "little-known reality" of state engineers and how organizational professionalism is transforming their work experiences. A must-read for understanding engineering in the public sector. #EngineeringProfession #Canada

⚖️ When administrative tasks overshadow technical work: New research reveals how NPM practices create paradoxes for public service engineers in Quebec, affecting their professional commitment and core responsibilities. Out now in Engineering Studies! #PublicService

🔧 NEW RESEARCH: How is New Public Management reshaping the engineering profession in the public sector? Our latest article examines the experiences of Quebec's public service engineers and reveals key tensions in professional practice. doi.org/10.1080/193786… #EngineeringStudies

By recognizing the cultural wealth already present in Spanish language–dominant communities, this study offers a path toward more just and inclusive engineering education and citizen science.
Essential reading for anyone working on participatory tech and equity.

Families in this project didn’t just “participate”—they shaped it.
Castaneda et al. show how households drew on familial and social capital to co-develop engineering solutions, challenging dominant narratives about marginalized communities in STEM.
#EquityInSTEM

How can participatory engineering avoid reproducing deficit-based assumptions?
This study centers Spanish language–dominant families in a citizen science project on climate resilience—highlighting how they mobilize community cultural wealth.
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What happens when a road “overflows”?
This reflective essay asks how engineers deal with the limits of control and what responsibilities they carry in re-delegating agency across human-nonhuman worlds.
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#CriticalSTS #Responsibility

From Aldo Leopold’s Thinking Like a Mountain to infrastructure studies and STS, Haugland invites us to think like a road—to see how infrastructures quietly shape, break, and reorder the worlds we inhabit.
#EngineeringStudies #Repair #NatureCulture

New in Engineering Studies:
What does it mean to think like a road?
In this award-winning companion essay, Bård Haugland builds on “Framing ITS in the Arctic” to propose a powerful metaphor for understanding infrastructure, nature, and engineering.
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