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The greatest challenges for contemporary and future natural resource production are sociotechnical by nature, from public perceptions of mining to responsible mineral supply chains. The term sociotechnical signals that engineered systems have inherent social dimensions that require careful analysis. Sociotechnical thinking is a prerequisite for und...
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... full data set is available in Table 2 summarizes student assessments from five Petroleum Engineering classes for the three underlined options. We received unique responses from 427 students over the five classes. ...Context 2
... received unique responses from 427 students over the five classes. Table 2 shows that the changes we observed in the student responses from the beginning to the end of the semester varied by both course and year. For example, fewer students in the Fall 2016 Senior Seminar ended the semester assessing redesigning an industrial process as excellent CSR (down to 70% from 81%), but more judged building a water treatment plant and rerouting a pipeline as excellent (up to 64% and 64% from 58% and 53%, respectively). ...Citations
... Conversely, STT developed a more critical purpose in engineering education: to raise awareness of the social influences, purposes, and impact of engineering. This critical purpose is highlighted in many recent studies in engineering education linking STT to social justice-related practices (Chen et al. 2023;Jiménez Becerra, Rojas-Alvarez, and Bustamante Salamanca 2022;Leydens, Johnson, and Moskal 2021;Reynante 2021;Smith et al. 2021;Smith, McClelland, and Restrepo 2023). ...
Sociotechnical thinking (STT) has recently emerged in response to technical-social dualism. It is defined as the ability to identify, address, and respond to both social and technical dimensions of engineering. As the number of publications on STT increases, so does the need to map the literature. This paper provides a scoping literature review of STT in engineering education, focusing on research purposes, methodologies, findings, and potential gaps. Our examination of 25 papers indicates that research on STT in engineering education covers a variety of purposes and methodologies. Key findings in the literature provide a better understanding of students’ demonstration of and barriers to developing STT, the intersections between STT, engineering identity and culture, characteristics of STT, challenges and opportunities for teaching STT, and how prior knowledge and emotional connections can facilitate students’ development of STT.
