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Energy is a basic human need; technologies for energy conversion
and use are fundamental to human survival. As energy technology
evolves to meet demands for development and ecological
sustainability in the 21st century, engineers need to have
up-to-date skills and knowledge to meet the creative challenges
posed by current and future energy problems. Further, engineers
need to cultivate a commitment to and passion for lifelong learning
which will enable us to actively engage new developments in the
field. This undergraduate textbook companion seeks to develop these
capacities in tomorrow's engineers in order to provide for future
energy needs around the world. This book is designed to complement
traditional texts in engineering thermodynamics, and thus is
organized to accompany explorations of the First and Second Laws,
fundamental property relations, and various applications across
engineering disciplines. It contains twenty modules targeted toward
meeting five often-neglected ABET outcomes: ethics, communication,
lifelong learning, social context, and contemporary issues. The
modules are based on pedagogies of liberation, used for decades in
the humanities and social sciences for instilling critical thinking
and reflective action in students by bringing attention to power
relations in the classroom and in the world. This book is intended
to produce a conversation and creative exploration around how to
teach and learn thermodynamics differently. Because liberative
pedagogies are at their heart relational, it is important to
maintain spaces for discussing classroom practices with these
modules, and for sharing ideas for implementing critical pedagogies
in engineering contexts. The reader is therefore encouraged to
visit the book's blog. Table of Contents: What and Why? / The First
Law: Making Theory Relevant / The Second Law and Property Relations
/ Thinking Big Picture about Energy and Sustainability
The profession of engineering in the United States has historically
served the status quo, feeding an ever-expanding materialistic and
militaristic culture, remaining relatively unresponsive to public
concerns, and without significant pressure for change from within.
This book calls upon engineers to cultivate a passion for social
justice and peace and to develop the skill and knowledge set needed
to take practical action for change within the profession. Because
many engineers do not receive education and training that support
the kinds of critical thinking, reflective decision-making, and
effective action necessary to achieve social change, engineers
concerned with social justice can feel powerless and isolated as
they remain complicit. Utilizing techniques from radical pedagogies
of liberation and other movements for social justice, this book
presents a roadmap for engineers to become empowered and engage one
another in a process of learning and action for social justice and
peace. Table of contents: What Do we Mean by Social Justice? /
Mindsets in Engineering / Engineering and Social Injustice / Toward
a More Socially Just Engineering / Turning Knowledge into Action:
Strategies for Change / Parting Lessons for the Continuing Struggle
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