What is Global Engineering Education For? The Making of International Educators, Part III

Gary Downey is Alumni Distinguished Professor of Science and Technology Studies and affiliated professor of Womens and Gender Studies at Virginia Tech. A mechanical engineer (B.S., Lehigh) and cultural anthropologist (Ph.D., University of Chicago), he is the author of The Machine in Me and co-editor of Cyborgs and Citadels and What Is Global Engineering Education For? He edits the Engineering Studies Series (MIT Press), Global Engineering Series (Morgan & Claypool Publishers), and Engineering Studies journal (Routledge/Taylor & Francis). He is co-founder of the International Network for Engineering Studies, as well as founder of the Engineering Cultures course. He serves as President of the Society for Social Studies of Science (2013-2015).Kacey Beddoes is a Ph.D. student in Science and Technology Studies at Virginia Tech. Her current research interests are interdisciplinary studies of gender and engineering education research and international engineering education. She serves as Managing Editor of Engineering Studies and Assistant Editor of the Global Engineering series at Morgan & Claypool.

• The Border Crossers: Personal Geographies of International and Global Engineering Educators (Gary Lee Downey).- From Diplomacy and Development to Competitiveness and Globalization: Historical Perspectives on the Internationalization of Engineering Education (Brent Jesiek and Kacey Beddoes).- Crossing Borders: My Journey at WPI (Rick Vaz).- Education of Global Engineers and Global Citizens (E. Dan Hirleman).- In Search of Something More: My Path Towards International Service-Learning in Engineering Education (Margaret F. Pinnell).- International Engineering Education: The Transition from Engineering Faculty Member to True Believer (D. Joseph Mook).- Finding and Educating Self and Others Across Multiple Domains: Crossing Cultures, Disciplines, Research Modalities, and Scales (Anu Ramaswami).- If You Don't Go, You Don't Know (Linda D. Phillips).- A Lifetime of Touches of an Elusive "Virtual Elephant": Global Engineering Education (Lester A. Gerhardt).- Developing Global Awareness in a College of Engineering (Alan Parkinson).- The Right Thing to Do: Graduate Education and Research in a Global and Human Context (James R. Mihelcic).- Author Biographies.