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Virginia Tech

HIST-2054: Engineering Cultures

Description: Development of engineering and its cultural values in historical and transnational perspectives. Explores the varying knowledge, identities, and commitments of engineers and engineering across different countries. Examines values in emergent infrastructures of engineering education and work, and the participation of engineers and engineering in evolving forms of capitalism. Helps students learn to reflect critically on their knowledge, identities, and commitments in varying curricula and a globalizing world.

Pathways: 2 Critical Thinking Humanities, 3 Reasoning in Social Sciences, 11 Intercultural&Global Aware.

Course Hours: 3 credits

Prerequisites: N/A

Required By: N/A

Corequisites: N/A

Crosslist: STS-2054

Repeatability: N/A

Sections Taught: 64

Average GPA: 3.47 (rounds to B+)

Strict A Rate (No A-) : 57.92%

Average Withdrawal Rate: 2.11%

Joshua G Earle202178.3%13.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%8.3%3.872
Ke Hu202468.9%20.3%7.4%1.2%0.0%2.2%3.595
Gary L Downey202255.9%23.5%9.7%4.3%6.3%0.4%3.2215
Kuan Hung Lo202033.3%55.5%0.0%0.0%11.1%0.0%3.001
Francesca Battista202257.8%37.5%2.4%0.0%2.4%0.0%3.483
Tsung Yen Tsou202367.9%17.5%2.8%9.1%0.0%2.8%3.452
Roan G Parrish202470.9%22.4%6.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.642
Hanna J Herdegen202488.0%7.9%4.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.853
Seohyun Park202047.8%34.5%17.8%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.322
Marie M Kleine202055.7%33.2%6.1%2.5%0.0%2.5%3.512
Ariel S Ludwig201969.4%14.3%5.5%2.5%3.0%5.4%3.472
Taylor Loy202178.9%19.7%1.4%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.763
Hesam Hosseinpour202474.8%16.8%0.0%0.0%2.1%6.3%3.732
Monamie B Haines202482.3%16.0%0.0%0.0%1.6%0.0%3.722
Savannah L Mandel202482.4%9.8%0.0%5.0%2.8%0.0%3.604
Kulash Zhumadilova202275.0%5.6%8.4%5.6%2.8%2.8%3.432
Hung Yin Tsai202179.8%15.1%1.2%0.0%3.9%0.0%3.605
Joshua Brinkman202329.2%15.6%17.7%0.0%19.8%17.7%2.422
Staff Pathak202293.3%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%6.7%4.001
Timothy M Miller201983.4%16.7%0.0%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.781
Damien P Williams202148.9%26.8%12.2%0.0%2.5%9.6%3.412
Alan S Abrahams201959.1%22.7%18.2%0.0%0.0%0.0%3.421

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