Japan's engineering ethics and Western culture : social status, democracy, and economic globalization
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Japan's engineering ethics and Western culture : social status, democracy, and economic globalization
Lexington Books, c2021
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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 the current engineering ethics education was introduced into engineering education programs. While economic globalization played a significant role in promoting this introduction, expectations of Western individualistic ethics and a hesitation 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 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 US and other Western countries. Kenichi Natsume also discusses this history from an even more 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.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Acronyms and Abbreviations
Introduction
Engineering Ethics in Prewar Japan
Engineering Education and Ethics in Postwar Democratization
Import of the Western Engineering System and Its Ethics
Industry-Academia Cooperation: The Ideal and the Real
The Growth of Industrial and Practical Demands
The Globalization of Engineering Qualification and Ethics
The Globalization of Engineering Education and Ethics
Conclusion
Supplemental Glossary
Bibliography
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