However, as Sita M. Syal and Julia Kramer, assistant professors in mechanical engineering at the University of Michigan, write in “Design and Justice: A Scoping Review in Engineering Design,” there is “a growing priority in the engineering design research community to incorporate justice into design and to do so meaningfully and intentionally.”
Syal and Kramer share insights into the interconnections between engineering and social justice, some of the lingering issues, and their hopes for the discourse moving forward.
We hear the term social justice a lot these days, but to kind of kick things off, could you give us a high-level overview of what social justice is in the context of our discussion and why it’s so important when it comes to engineering?
