MECH 333 Gender, Engineering and Technology Units: 3.00
This course examines relations between gender and technology. The main topics covered are: the role of technology on the shaping of society particularly in terms of gendering of jobs and exclusion of women, gender issues in the workplace, the impact of technology on women's lives, and women's impacts on technology. Historical perspectives are presented and contemporary examples from western and developing countries are discussed.
NOT OFFERED 2024-2025
(Lec: 3, Lab: 0, Tut: 0)
NOT OFFERED 2024-2025
(Lec: 3, Lab: 0, Tut: 0)
Offering Term: W
CEAB Units:
Mathematics 0
Natural Sciences 0
Complementary Studies 36
Engineering Science 0
Engineering Design 0
Offering Faculty: Smith Engineering
Course Learning Outcomes:
- Explain selected issues on gender, engineering and technology.
- Synthesize professional/scholarly readings and summarize them.
- Formulate their ideas on sometimes challenging topics and discuss them in a professional way.
- Research a topic and critically analyze the gathered information.
- Compose synthetic documents of the researched topic.
- Present to a group using state of the art tools.