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Courses and programs that focus on sustainable community development, global service learning, humanitarian engineering, and related themes have gained considerable prominence in engineering schools1-3. In many of these programs, students respond to a problem situated in an international context over the course of one or more semesters, and may also travel abroad to deliver a designed product or solution.3 The projects undertaken by engineering students in these courses and programs are highly influenced by the context in which they are situated. Further, the success or failure of these projects relies in part on whether or not engineers substitute the typical technical rationality approach to problem solving for one in which they continuously conduct a “reflective conversation with the situation” (p. 76).
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Mazzurco et al. (2020) studied this question.