Location
Argentina
Summary
The subject Engineering and Society appeared in 1995 when changes were made in the curricular designs of Engineering courses with the purpose of providing a more contextualized teaching of the profession, allowing future graduates to understand their professional activity within the framework of their social, cultural, economic and environmental links. From this curricular space, work is promoted around the articulation of the relationships between society, technology and professional work, leading students to analyze the problems of society in relation to their future profession. In this direction, the focus of social studies of science and technology (ECTS) is the theoretical framework that has been worked on for several years at the Avellaneda Regional Faculty, since we believe it is conducive to understanding and facing the growing challenges represented by the advance of digitalization and the global economy, as well as the care of natural resources and the environment. Therefore, our proposal includes theoretical tools that allow, from the engineering profession, to understand the phenomena of social inclusion/exclusion, as well as to promote, design and implement technologies aimed at solving social problems taking into account local communities and their knowledge, as well as alternative models of economic development. In this presentation we describe part of the theoretical framework that we use as a strategy for training in sociotechnical citizenship hoping to promote the design of inclusive and sustainable technologies in their use and access conditions in a contextualized manner.
