Japan's Engineering Ethics and Western Culture
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Japan's Engineering Ethics and Western Culture

Social Status, Democracy, and Economic Globalization

  1. 243 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Japan's Engineering Ethics and Western Culture

Social Status, Democracy, and Economic Globalization

About this book

Given that engineering significantly affects modern society, ensuring its reliability is essential. How then should society implement engineering ethics to ensure its reliability? Can we expect engineering ethics to be nurtured naturally in the practice of engineering communities? If not, should the subject be compulsory in educational programs? Japan is among the most advanced countries with respect to engineering; however, it was not until the end of the 1990s that current engineering ethics education was introduced into Japanese engineering education programs. While economic globalization played a significant role in promoting this introduction, expectations of Western individualistic ethics and a hesitancy toward a foreign culture laid the foundation. Japan's Engineering Ethics and Western Culture: Social Status, Democracy, and Economic Globalization examines the broad historical process of developing engineering ethics from the late nineteenth century to the twentieth century. Even though the process was rooted in Japan's original culture and influenced by the ideologies of respective periods, such as nationalism and democracy, it consistently acknowledged trends from the United States and other Western countries. Natsume Kenichi discusses this history from a comprehensive perspective, including not only engineering education but also science, technology, industry, and higher education policies as well as various issues in science, technology, and society (STS) studies.

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Information

Year
2021
eBook ISBN
9781978794917
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Acronyms and Abbreviations
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1: Engineering Ethics in Prewar Japan
  10. Chapter 2: Engineering Education and Ethics in Postwar Democratization
  11. Chapter 3: Import of the Western Engineering System and Its Ethics
  12. Chapter 4: Industry-Academia Cooperation: The Ideal and the Real
  13. Chapter 5: The Growth of Industrial and Practical Demands
  14. Chapter 6: The Globalization of Engineering Qualification and Ethics
  15. Chapter 7: The Globalization of Engineering Education and Ethics
  16. Conclusion
  17. Supplemental Glossary
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. About the Author