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Relevance of Studying History in Relation To Industrial Engineering Course

Studying history can provide industrial engineering students with important context for problem-solving. Historians interpret how societies have addressed problems over thousands of years related to energy, transport, housing, and production. Some historical approaches led to more sustainable and equitable outcomes, while others did not. Understanding the social and environmental factors surrounding engineering challenges in the past can help students develop solutions that also consider issues like class, gender, politics, and economics to create a more sustainable and socially-just field.

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Relevance of Studying History in Relation To Industrial Engineering Course

Studying history can provide industrial engineering students with important context for problem-solving. Historians interpret how societies have addressed problems over thousands of years related to energy, transport, housing, and production. Some historical approaches led to more sustainable and equitable outcomes, while others did not. Understanding the social and environmental factors surrounding engineering challenges in the past can help students develop solutions that also consider issues like class, gender, politics, and economics to create a more sustainable and socially-just field.

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RELEVANCE OF STUDYING HISTORY IN RELATION TO

INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING COURSE

At present, in many societies, engineers play a big role in solving problems of energy,

transport, accommodation and production; but similar problems are solved through technical and

non-technical means for thousands of years. Numerous historical examples therefore exist,

within which the end of approaches to problem-solving are apparent: some tending to provide

socially and/or ecologically sustainable outcomes, and a few less positive.

Historians don’t simply narrate the past, they explain and interpret changes and continuities by

taking note to larger problems with, as an example, class, gender, polity and economy. Such

historical narratives, we argue, may have a useful role to play in efforts to shift the attitude of

engineering students faraway from a narrow concentrate on complex technical solutions, towards

the broader context during which their problem-solving will happen. This ability to asses the

relationships between engineering problem-solving and therefore the broader social and

environmental context is critical to the event of a more sustainable and socially-just engineering

practice.

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