Invitation
Thesis
Practicing
Changing
Engineering
Design
&
PhD Defence
by Rikke Premer Petersen
Engineering design is essential in our contemporary societies. But does our ways of understanding and educating engineering designers sufficiently prepare them for the complex
challenges they will meet in their occupation?
This PhD thesis offers a novel practice theoretical perspective on the intricate relations
in-between and across education and occupation on a journey through four Danish sites of
engineering design. Drawing on engineering studies and organisational studies the journey
offers to nuance the understanding of what engineering design involves and the challenges faced when attempting to move the engineering design field forward.
Recognising the complex sociomaterial elements of practicing and changing engineering
design does not provide answers but rather understandings of how and why design practices are carried out as they are in the everyday life of students and professionals alike.
Thesis copy
Please go to this link for an electronic copy of the thesis: https://db.tt/3OZ7RLmC
Supervisors
Professor Ulrik Jørgensen | Department of Development and Planning, Aalborg
University Copenhagen, Denmark
Associate Professor Anders Buch | Department of Education,
Learning and Philosophy, Aalborg University Copenhagen, Denmark
Assessment
Committee
MODERATOR
Time
Professor Monika Nerland | Department of Education,
University of Oslo, Norway
Associate Professor Dean Nieusma | Department of Science and
Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnics Institute, USA
Professor Christian Clausen (chairman) | Department of
Development and Planning, Aalborg University
Copenhagen, Denmark
Associate Professor Hanne Lindegaard |
Department of Development and
Planning, Aalborg University
Copenhagen, Denmark
Tuesday June 30th 2015
PhD Lecture
13:00 - 13:45
Questioning
14:00 - 16:00
Reception
Host
Location
Registration
from 16:00
Aalborg University | Department of Development and Planning
A.C. Meyers Vænge 15, 2450 Copenhagen SV
Room FKJ12 1.47
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