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Dec 11, 2017
Prof: Academic rigor reinforces 'power and privilege' - Campus Reform
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=10257
The leader of Purdue University's School of Engineering Education recently declared thatacademic “rigor” reinforces “white male heterosexual privilege.” Donna Riley, who previously taught engineering at Smith College for 13 years, published an article in the most recent issue of the journalEngineering ...
Purdue University New Female Head of Engineering School Is SJW ...
https://emsnews.wordpress.com/.../purdue-university-new-female-head-of-engineerin...
Aug 11, 2017 - Here is the lady who now can lord it over all the males doing engineering stuff, DonnaRiley from Princeton U: ... She is going to move all the learning away from those evil whiteEuropean/American males who built our civilization and is going to hammer them about how women and everyone else did more, ...
Toni Airaksinen
on Aug 04, 2017 at 4:32 PM EDT
Citing the Purdue University School of Education Engineering as a case study, Wichman claims that “engineering education” schools increasingly focus on concepts that are incompatible with the actual discipline, such as “empowering” students and “reimagining” engineering as a more “socially connected” field of study.
“For the record, engineers ‘empower’ themselves and, most important, other people, by inventing things,” he points out. “Those things are our agents of change.”
Wichman goes on to highlight the “ambitious agenda” of Dr. Donna Riley, the recently appointed dean of Purdue’s engineering school, as an example of the extent of social justice “infiltration” at the school.
According to her faculty page, Riley aims to “revise engineering curricula to be relevant to a fuller range of student experiences and career destination” by incorporating “concerns related to...social responsibility,” focusing on “de-centering Western civilization,” and “uncovering contributions of women and other underrepresented groups.”
In addition, she has taught classes addressing topics like “racist and colonialist projects in science” and using “feminist and postcolonial science studies” to study engineering issues.”
Engineering Education: Social Engineering Rather than Actual ...
https://www.jamesgmartin.center/.../engineering-education-social-engineering-rather-a...
Aug 2, 2017 - Those things are our agents of change. The recently appointed dean of Purdue's school, Dr. Donna Riley, has an ambitious agenda. ... Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle (three long-dead white males) seemed to understand the role of “accidents” in human life better than we do. One thing is certain—we are not ...One of the features of their growing power is the phenomenon of “engineering education” programs and schools. They have sought out the soft underbelly of engineering, where phrases such as “diversity” and “different perspectives” and “racial gaps” and “unfairness” and “unequal outcomes” make up the daily vocabulary. Instead of calculating engine horsepower or microchip power/size ratios or aerodynamic lift and drag, the engineering educationists focus on group representation, hurt feelings, and “microaggressions” in the profession.
An excellent example is the establishment at Purdue University (once informally called the “MIT of the Midwest”) of a whole School of Engineering Education. What is this school’s purpose? Its website tells us that it “envisions a more socially connected and scholarly engineering education. This implies that we radically rethink the boundaries of engineering and the purpose of engineering education.”
https://www.christopherfountain.com/blog/2017/4/1/whos-going-to-build-our-bridges-and-wholl-dare-cross-them-if-theyre-built
Who's going to build our bridges, and who'll dare cross them if they're built?
WOULD YOU REALLY WANT TO EMPLOY ENGINEERING PRINCIPLES CREATED BY WHITE,RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC MALES, WHEN THERE'S AN ALTERNATIVE? I KNOW I WOUDN'T
Purdue University has hired lesbian-theologian Donna Riley as its new head of its School of Engineering Education. Here’s an excerpt from Prof. Riley’s biography page at Smith College, where she taught for 13 years:
My scholarship currently focuses on applying liberative pedagogies in engineering education, leveraging best practices from women’s studies and ethnic studies to engage students in creating a democratic classroom that encourages all voices. In 2005 I received a CAREER award from the National Science Foundation to support this work, which includes developing, implementing, and assessing curricular and pedagogical innovations based on liberative pedagogies and student input at Smith, and understanding how students at Smith conceptualize their identities as engineers. ...I seek to revise engineering curricula to be relevant to a fuller range of student experiences and career destinations, integrating concerns related to public policy, professional ethics and social responsibility; de-centering Western civilization; and uncovering contributions of women and other underrepresented groups.In EGR 330 (Engineering and Global Development), we critically evaluate past and current trends in appropriate and sustainable technology. We examine how technology influences and is influenced by globalization, capitalism and colonialism, and the role technology plays in movements that counter these forces. Gender is a key thread running through the course in examining issues of water supply and quality, food production and energy.In EGR 205 (Science, Technology and Ethics), we consider questions such as who decides how science and engineering are done, who can participate in the scientific enterprise and what problems are legitimately addressed within these disciplines and professions. We take up racist and colonialist projects in science, as well as the role of technology, culture and economic systems in the drive toward bigger, faster, cheaper and more automated production of goods. A course theme around technology and control provides for exploration of military, information, reproductive and environmental applications. Using readings from philosophy, science and technology studies, and feminist and postcolonial science studies, we explore these topics and encounter new models of science and engineering that are responsive to ethical concerns.
Here’s an interview with Dr. Riley as part of a “Queered Science” series. Riley is a lesbian, and uses gender-neutral pronouns. Excerpt:
One of the biggest sources of sexism and homophobia is lodged in the epistemology of science. How we think, and what we think, matter in determining what we know and don’t know, and affects our workplace interactions in very negative ways. We think that we eliminate bias by keeping our “personal lives” – some aspects of ourselves – out of the lab, classroom, or office. But actually this is how we allow implicit bias to seep in and saturate everything we do, because that which is male, straight, white, able-bodied, monied, is not left behind in the practice of science and engineering – it is just so normative that lots of us don’t notice.
All this is straight out of the Soviet Union's playbook: science controlled by political hacks. The Soviet Union is no longer with us, and it's an open question whether we'll be following it into oblivion - certainly, that's the goal of the people running our educational system, from kindergarten to graduate school, and they're succeeding, or already have.
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Queering Engineering At Purdue | The American Conservative
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Mar 30, 2017 - Purdue University has hired Donna Riley as its new head of its School of Engineering Education. Here's an excerpt from Prof. Riley's biography page at Smith College, where she taught for 13 years: My scholarship currently focuses on applying liberative pedagogies in engineering education, leveraging ..
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