"Will no one rid me of these meddlesome SJWs?" - Granite Grok

“Will no one rid me of these meddlesome SJWs?”

Perdue Engineering[With all due respect to Henry II (above)].  Please guide me around the bridges they have designed.  I don’t care about diversity – I want “my engineers” to know their math, material science, and ground soils makeup.  SJWs (Social Justice Warriors) have perverted just about everything they’ve touched and now they’re about to ruin engineering (emphasis mine):

Engineering Education: Social Engineering Rather than Actual Engineering.

Alas, the world we engineers envisioned as young students is not quite as simple and straightforward as we had wished because a phalanx of social justice warriors, ideologues, egalitarians, and opportunistic careerists has ensconced itself in America’s college and universities. The destruction they have caused in the humanities and social sciences has now reached to engineering.

One of the features of their growing power is the phenomenon of “engineering education” programs and schools. They have sought out the soft underbelly of engineering, where phrases such as “diversity” and “different perspectives” and “racial gaps” and “unfairness” and “unequal outcomes” make up the daily vocabulary. Instead of calculating engine horsepower or microchip power/size ratios or aerodynamic lift and drag, the engineering educationists focus on group representation, hurt feelings, and “microaggressions” in the profession.

If my car breaks down, that bridge fails, the light switch only operates in off mode (be it the switch, the bulb, or power source), or my computer no longer computes, *I’LL* show you a MEGA-microaggression and I will dang guarantee you that there WILL be hurt feelings.

An excellent example is the establishment at Purdue University (once informally called the “MIT of the Midwest”) of a whole School of Engineering Education. What is this school’s purpose?

First guess – er, Engineering and being a nerd haven?  Er, no:

Its website tells us that it “envisions a more socially connected and scholarly engineering education. This implies that we radically rethink the boundaries of engineering and the purpose of engineering education.”

Last time I knew, an engineering education was to make sure you could build things, build them right, and build them at a high level of quality.  I stopped dead at “radically” because in academia, that has a specific definition and it has nothing to do with Engineering!

I have always thought my own education in engineering was as scholarly as possible. Once I became a professor, I never worried about how “socially connected” the education we provided at Michigan State for engineering students was. With trepidation, I read on to see if I was missing something important. I learned to my dismay that Purdue’s engineering education school rests on three bizarre pillars: “reimagining engineering and engineering education, creating field-shaping knowledge, and empowering agents of change.” . . .

The recently appointed dean of Purdue’s school, Dr. Donna Riley, has an ambitious agenda.

In her words (italics mine): “I seek to revise engineering curricula to be relevant to a fuller range of student experiences and career destinations, integrating concerns related to public policy, professional ethics, and social responsibility; de-centering Western civilization; and uncovering contributions of women and other underrepresented groups…. We examine how technology influences and is influenced by globalization, capitalism, and colonialism….Gender is a key…[theme]…[throughout] the course…. We…[examine]… racist and colonialist projects in science….”

Sigh…   Go ahead, TELL me what continues to be useful and successful according to the original purpose after these pestilent pustules have invaded it? THey have one and only one purpose – to subvert what a subject matter is supposed to deal with to that of their ideology.

Congratulations – be ready for your Chinese overlords to arrive because their technology will be unhindered.  And then you’ll learn something really, really new about an ancient political philosophy (despotic totalitarianism).

And make sure to tell me where you graduated from so I can make sure not to hire you.

Seriously, colonialism?

(H/T: Instapundit)

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