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TOWARDS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGHT TECH INDUSTRIES VIA INTRODUCING TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT CURRICULUM IN POLISH PERSPECTIVE
Jan KAŹMIERCZAK1, Bartłomiej GŁADYSZ2, Alina BETLEJ3
Varia
Publication language: English
Journal article
Transformations No. 4 (115) 2022, Publication date: 28 December 2022
Keywords: technology assessment, high tech industry, educational needs, TA curriculum, sustainable development
Abstract The research aims to investigate the implications of the paradigm of technology assessment (TA) for education of engineers at universities of technology in the context of sustainable development of high tech industries. We considered TA education as the most reliable solution for ensuring the innovativeness of market economies and sustainable social change in highly developed societies. We asked the question about the potentials of high tech industry development via introducing technology assessment curriculum in Polish perspective. The second issue was analysis of the needs for TA education of future engineers. The study is explanatory in nature. We introduced interdisciplinary approaches based mainly on criticism of writing and the analytical and synthetic method. We draw relations between ethical issues, TA education and high tech industry development. The research offers an insight into the processes of TA implementation at universities, and underlines the need for TA education in many respects. Evidence supporting these key questions of the TA education needs comes from research conducted at Polish universities of technology among scholars teaching "Production Engineering and Management".
Silesian University of Technology, Faculty of Organization and Management, Zabrze, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0002-2459-470X
E-mail: jan.kazmierczak@polsl.pl
Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Production Engineering, Warsaw, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0003-0619-0194
E-mail: bartlomiej.gladysz@pw.edu.pl
The John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, Faculty of Social Sciences, Lublin, Poland
ORCID: 0000-0002-2729-6564
E-mail: alina.betlej@kul.pl