Cooper, Adam;
Ghosh, Bipashyee;
Lazar, Irina;
(2025)
Transformative Outcomes, Engineering Policy and Engineering Education: Strengthening the Impact of TE on Socially-Relevant Problems.
In: Trigos, Federico and Chou, Chun-Juei and Stjepandić, Josip, (eds.)
Advances in Transdisciplinary Engineering.
(pp. pp. 477-486).
IOS Press: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Mexico.
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Abstract
Engineering in the coming decades need to address wicked problems of environmental sustainability and social justice. Engineers and engineering practice could enable major transformations in the systems of basic service provision, such as energy, mobility, food, housing and healthcare. Transdisciplinary engineering (TE) provides alternatives for reconfiguring engineering with the demands of meeting these wicked problems, many of which have been created or exacerbated with traditional engineering. Supporting approaches from wider society include engineering policy and engineering education. But how can we judge if TE is supporting the reconfiguration of engineering effectively? And how can we identify actions within engineering policy and engineering education that could support this? To understand this, we explore the use of the Transformative Outcomes framework (TOF) to appraise progress and identify possible actions to support TE in the UK. This treats TE as a niche innovation within the engineering landscape, that has to develop in the face of the traditional engineering regime. Focusing on four outcomes from the TOF that cover both niche and regime level: shielding, upscaling, de-aligning and unlearning, we provisionally identify actions in place in the UK and possible gaps where UK policy and education for engineering could go further in supporting TE’s move into a new engineering regime. For engineering policy and education, TOF generates classes of possible action that can enable alignment across wider-economy and within training and skills. This provides the basis for a wider and more systematic application of the TOF for developing TE in the UK and internationally.
| Type: | Proceedings paper |
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| Title: | Transformative Outcomes, Engineering Policy and Engineering Education: Strengthening the Impact of TE on Socially-Relevant Problems |
| Event: | 32nd ISTE International Conference on Transdisciplinary Engineering (TE2025), |
| ISBN-13: | 978-1-64368-624-0 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3233/ATDE251120 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3233/ATDE251120 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s), 2025. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Communication Sciences, Engineering, Technology |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > STEaPP |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10220006 |
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