Engineering Culture Overlooks People It’s Suppose To Serve
Teaching to think about those for whom they design
"...Yet, one of the first things I was taught as an engineering trainee was how to be an “objective” practitioner, suppressing personal experience, bias and emotion about research questions and processes. Such objective reasoning has served the mostly white, male field well by applying dispassionate focus to research problems and lending credibility to results from one practitioner to another. But it has also, by design, perpetuated injustices. Outside of our narrow fields exist people, with complex social factors and systems that will inevitably affect the metrics we study and bias the solutions we seek to create if such concerns are not taken into consideration from the beginning." (Scientific America - Opinion, 22 February 22)
Posted: March 6, 2022, 10:43 AM