Virtuous Design
Virtues such as patience, courage, kindness, and humility are desirable individual characteristics. Beyond personal application, some virtues also apply to…
Resource Tag: Christian Engineering
The Difficulties of Developing an Engineering Community with a Common Christian Worldview
The worldview that is formed during the early and educationally intensive years of one life provides a basis through which…
The Christian Foundations of an Engineering Education
Christian faith is to be like yeast in bread dough, permeating every part of a life. Therefore, it naturally also…
Thailand: Tradition & Technology
While continuing in its royal family tradition, a constitutional monarchy, and Buddhist practices, Thailand has also welcomed external influences such…
Teaching the Concepts of Calling and Vocation in an Introduction to Engineering Course
The mission statement of the Engineering Department at Geneva College calls for “developing engineering professionals who will see their careers…
Teaching Technical Engineering Courses from a Christian Perspective: Two Examples
Engineering, like many of the natural sciences, is usually taught by breaking the subject matter into parts, that is, courses…
Supplying Drinking Water to Third-World Mission Fields: Engineers Should Implement Today’s Best Technologies
Christian service in environmental technologies and animal science is deeply tied to God’s command in Genesis 1:26-28 for us to…
Understanding Technological Failure: Finitude, Fallen-ness, and Sinfulness in Engineering Disasters
It is important to know why engineering designs sometimes fail catastrophically. Not only does blame need to be assigned justly…
Male and Female He Created Them: Why Christians Should Care About Educating More Female Engineers, and How to Achieve It
It is no secret that women are under-represented in engineering schools across the U.S. At Christian colleges, this disparity is…
Ethics In and Of the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam
This paper is a commentary on the use of the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) exam as a general assessment tool…
Ethical Issues in Academic Research
Graduate students and faculty members engaged in research face some ethical issues unique to the research process. When the results…
Developing a Method to Integrate the Faith Perspective of a University into the Engineering Curriculum
In results from an ongoing research effort focused at discerning methods to engage engineering student’s awareness of vocation, it has…
Converting Coconuts into Value-Added Products: Serving Christ by Serving the Poorest of the Poor
This paper explores how coconuts, an abundant renewable resource in tropical regions, can be converted into electricity, housing materials, cooking…
Applying the Reformational Doctrine of Christian Vocation to our Understanding of Engineering as a Sacred Calling
Students at Christ-centered universities often find themselves wrestling with whether or not God can use them as effectively in the…
Can Design for the “Poor” Result in Better Designs for Everyone?
Although the global market allocates relatively fewer resources to some of the neediest on our planet, Christians are called on…