Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed on the subsequent chapters of this book. The book proposes the approach to address a host of issues that are pressing for engineering educators and engineering practitioners. It provides a way to begin to address the mismatch by making sociotechnical dimensions visible, as they are inherent in engineering systems, designs, and artifacts. The book provides a clear pathway to integrate social justice and engineering. Furthermore, it explains to facilitate deeper understandings of engineers' power and broader associated responsibilities, such discussions need to be integrated at multiple junctures throughout the engineering curriculum, especially in those places deemed "purely technical". The book maps a strategy for rising to engineering ethics educator Joe Herkert's challenge. It then discusses the engineering for social justice (E4SJ) criteria build from a foundation of three guidelines: cradle‐to‐grave analysis, transcending temporal delimitations, and culling multiple perspectives.