naa a22 4500 510778550 CHVBK 20180411083239.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11948-012-9417-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11948-012-9417-0 Haase S. The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Finlandsgade 4, 8200, Aarhus, Denmark aut An Engineering Dilemma: Sustainability in the Eyes of Future Technology Professionals [Elektronische Daten] [S. Haase] The ability to design technological solutions that address sustainability is considered pivotal to the future of the planet and its people. As technology professionals engineers are expected to play an important role in sustaining society. The present article aims at exploring sustainability concepts of newly enrolled engineering students in Denmark. Their understandings of sustainability and the role they ascribe to sustainability in their future professional practice is investigated by means of a critical discourse analysis including metaphor analysis and semiotic analysis. The sustainability construal is considered to delimit possible ways of dealing with the concept in practice along the engineering education pathway and in professional problem solving. Five different metaphors used by the engineering students to illustrate sustainability are identified, and their different connotative and interpretive implications are discussed. It is found that sustainability represents a dilemma to the engineering students that situates them in a tension between their technology fascination and the blame they find that technological progress bears. Their sustainability descriptions are collected as part of a survey containing among other questions one open-ended, qualitative question on sustainability. The survey covers an entire year group of Danish engineering students in the first month of their degree study. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2012 Sustainability nationallicence Technology nationallicence Societal challenges nationallicence Qualitative analysis nationallicence Survey analysis nationallicence Science and Engineering Ethics Springer Netherlands 19/3(2013-09-01), 893-911 1353-3452 19:3<893 2013 19 11948 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-012-9417-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-012-9417-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Haase S. The Danish Centre for Studies in Research and Research Policy, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University, Finlandsgade 4, 8200, Aarhus, Denmark aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Science and Engineering Ethics Springer Netherlands 19/3(2013-09-01), 893-911 1353-3452 19:3<893 2013 19 11948 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer