The Rise of Engineering’s Social Justice Warriors

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The Rise of Engineering’s Social Justice Warriors
Nov 21, 2018 Ben Cohen 

In 2015, Colorado School of Mines writing instructor Dr. Jon Leydens delivered a TED talk titled “engineering and social justice.” According to Leydens, in the mid-2000s students started asking him about how they could combine their “passion for social justice” with their “interest in engineering.”

Leydens is part of a growing movement that seeks to incorporate social justice into engineering, in both the professional code and the curriculum. Far from being a marginal movement, on the fringes of the profession, it enjoys support at the highest levels.

The movement began during the Vietnam War era when left-wing engineers founded the Committee for Social Responsibility in Engineering (CSRE). According to Dean Nieusma, an assistant professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, in his paper “Engineering, Social Justice, and Peace: Strategies for Pedagogical, Curricular, and Institutional Reform:”

https://www.jamesgmartin.center/2018/11/the-rise-of-engineerings-social-justice-warriors/

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Has applying social justice to engineering done anything other than produce overpriced, over budget boondoggles?

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Leftism corrupts everything that it touches.

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I'm having a hard time with words right now, at least the ones that won't be bleeped.

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I'm having a hard time with words right now, at least the ones that won't be bleeped.

  

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