Engineering Education and Practice: Embracing a Catholic Vision

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ABET, 21, 28, 62, 169 educational outcomes not required by, 66 program requirements, 74–76 Abraham, John, 165 Academy for Educational Development (AED), 151, 157 access, wheelchair, xiv Accreditation Board of Engineering and Technology. See ABET adaptability assessment and, 80 continued learning and, 83 Marianisteducationand,28,31,63 preparation for, 66, 73, 83 Advanced Micro Devices, 93 “Advancing Justice in the City through Community Building” (paper title), 80–81 advocacy, social justice, 37, 82 AED. See Academy for Educational Development aesthetics ideal, 94 intellectual tradition of, 17 affection, for creation, xi, xvi affiliation, Catholic, viii affluence, 23 Africa internships in, 72 sub-Saharan, 143 African Americans in Silicon valley, 98 Age of Enlightenment, 43 agents, transformative, 37–38 agriculture, 45, 108 careers in, 152 practice of, 49 AIAA, 70 AICHE, 70 alumni relations, 92 Amadei, Bernard, 71 ambiguity, 100 American bishops, 165 American Bishops’ Pastoral on War and Peace, (Heft), 36 American Catholicism, doctoral program in, 34 American Heritage College Dictionary, 186 American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 19, 70 analogy, in theology and engineering, 85 analysis in education, 193 engineering and theological, 80 animals, genetically enhanced, 124 anthropology development and, 164 theological, 122, 127–32 apologetics, 60 Index 220 Index 221 Apostolic Constitution on Catholic Universities. See Ex corde ecclesiae Apple Computer, 93 aptitude, natural, 23 aqueducts, Roman, 41 Aquinas. See Thomas Aquinas Archimedes, 41, 44 architecture green, 160 intellectual tradition of, 17 Aristotle, 45, 49, 51, 53 arithmetic, 77 armament, practice of, 49 artifacts mechanical, 53 sacramental-like, 5 arts (humanities), 77 intellectual tradition of, 17 mechanical, 44, 49 practical, 48–49 science and, 26 ASCE, 70, 208–10 Aschheim, Mark, 102 Asia, internships in, 72 Asians in Silicon valley, 98 assessment, adaptability and, 80 assets mapping, 81 astronomy, 77 atheists, 30–31 at Catholic universities, 24 atmosphere, family-like, at Catholic universities, 29 Augustine of Hippo, 45–47, 51–52 Plato and, 47 theology of, 49 authority, church’s teaching, viii automata, 39 automobiles boundary of significance and, 106 new hybrid energy, 67 awareness social and faith, 186 student, of today’s world, 83 of vocation, methods to develop, 186 Bamako, 154 banausikas technas, 44 baptism, xiii Barbour, Ian, 121, 133 Barger, Robert, 194 baunos, 45 beauty of engineering, xiv of the world, xvii behavior, employee, 105 beliefs, professional, 191–92 Benedictines, 45 best or ideal defining, design and, 78 notion of, 86 Beyond Career to Calling, 165 Bhagavad-Gita, 206 Bible, wisdom literature, 124 biblical writers, 121 bioengineering, 100 bioinformatics, 39 biosphere, 122 biotechnology, 39 Bishops, American, 22, 164 Boethius, 45, 49, 51 Borg, John, 8, 213 Borgmann, Albert, 130–31 boundaries corporation, 106 ethics and, 106 individual, 106 rethinking of, 79 system, 5 Brent, Rebecca, 94 Bridge Design (course), 175 222 Index bridges building, 41 community and the, 172 design of, 175 pedestrian, 208 student design of, 176, 210 Bright, Anthony, 73–74 Brooke, John, 134 brothers and priests, 37–38 Brown, Henry Baker, 200 Bruer, John, 35 business development and, 164 formation, 98 school, 100 topics, 100 By Design (course), 31, 68 Byrne, Patrick, 64 “Call for Solidarity with Africa” (bishops’ document), 148 calling. See vocation Cambridge, England, 204 Campus Construction Educational Partnership, 211 canal and irrigation system, repair of, 209 Cantor, geoffrey, 134 careers engineering, 29 jobs and, 98–99 preparation for, 95 religious, or calling, 186 “Careers of Men and women Scientists” (zuckerman), 35 Casa de la Solidaridad, 92 Casa Educational Network, 101 Cassini Space Probe, 207 Catechism of the Catholic Church, 121 Cather, willa, on vocation, 206 Catholic being “too,” 26 the term, 66 what it means to be, 63 Catholic and Marianist educational characteristics, 74 influence, evidence of, 25 leadership training, 70 Catholic beliefs, dogmas, and ideas, 1, 60, 63, 181 Catholic Church, at Santa Clara, 92 Catholic, education, xi, 59–89 characteristics of, 25 engineering, 59–89 history of, 18–20 in the U.S., 34 mission of, 24 purpose of, 64–66 tradition, 13–52 vision, 13–40 “Catholic Institutions and Catholic Identity” (Steinfels), 34 Catholic Intellectual Tradition group, 68–69 Catholic social teaching, 14, 17, 24, 121, 123–24, 144–48, 164–65, 188, 190, 194 “Catholic Social Thought and Engineering Education” (Lynch), 188 Catholic theologians, technologies and, 122 Catholic thermodynamics, 86 Catholic universities, 119 broad definition, 63–64 energy efficiency and, 83 engineering faculty at, 188–89 integrated education of engineers and, 164 Catholicism founding tradition, 13 Index 223 intellectual appeal, 35 not a pacifist...