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What are professionals up against when trying to reshape and revitalize current ways of doing engineering? How to make room for new perspectives and approaches? Is it enough to hire new types of engineers with different sets of competences? Or does it take something else to allow new ways of doing engineering to thrive in the workplace?
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Petersen, R.P., Buch, A. (2016). Making Room in Engineering Design. In: Jørgensen, U., Brodersen, S. (eds) Engineering Professionalism. Professional Practice and Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-752-8_9
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