Layout and photos by Rikke Premer Petersen Printed at LaserTryk.dk to my dad. wish you had been here to discuss and contribute. now I understand us both that much better. VI Med ph.d. afhandlingen Ingeniør-design i Praksis og Forandring har målet vaeret at bidrage til en mere situeret og socialt informeret forståelse af den kløft der tilsyneladende er imellem ingeniøruddannelse og ingeniørbeskaeftigelse i lyset af nutidige og fremtidige udfordringer for ingeniør-design professionen. Områderne

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... dannelse og beskaeftigelse repraesenterer konceptuelle forståelser af laering og arbejde i vores vestlige samfund, men har også historisk rodfaestede infrastrukturer der holder de relaterede institutioner fast. Baseret på et etnografisk informeret studie af ingeniør-design inden for begge områder anlaegger projektet et praksis-teoretisk perspektiv for at åbne op for disse forståelser og infrastrukturer og finde ud af hvordan vi kan forstå den tilsyneladende vedholdende udfordring med at spejle professionel ingeniør-design praksis i vores akademisk baserede uddannelsessystem. Projektet bruger thick descriptions af det empiriske materiale til først at give en forståelse af hvordan ingeniør-design-arbejde foregår i praksis. Ved at frame ingeniør-design praksisser som i bund og grund epistemiske praksisser (fyldt med flertydighed) bliver analysen sensitiv overfor heterogeniteten og den socialitet der ligger ud over de emner der typisk diskuteres af undervisere og arbejdsgivere i ingeniørfaget (såsom specialiseret og kodificeret viden og kernekompetencer). Dernaest, ved at skifte fokus til ideer om forandring og udvikling af ingeniør-design praksisser, giver projektet en analyse af de infrastrukturer der opretholder og stabiliserer uddannelse og beskaeftigelse. Det empiriske materiale illustrerer hvordan forandring af eksisterende praksisser kraever mere end initiativ og lokal ageren fordi de underliggende infrastrukturer er seje og raekker ud over mange forbundne praksis-bundter. Ph.d. projektet bidrager således med en ny praksis-teoretisk forståelse af ingeniør-design i praksis og forandring i Danmark. Resumé VII With the thesis Practicing and Changing Engineering Design the aim has been to contribute to a situated and socially informed understanding of the perceived gap between engineering education and engineering occupation in light of contemporary and future challenges for the engineering design profession. The spheres of education and occupation represent conceptual understandings of learning and working in our western societies, but also historically rooted infrastructures that hold our institutions in place. Based on an ethnographically informed study of engineering design within both spheres, the project pursues a practice theoretical perspective to open up these understandings and infrastructures in order to find out how we might understand the seemingly persistent difficulties of resonating professional engineering design practices in our academically informed educational system. The project uses thick descriptions of the empirical material to first of all provide an understanding of how engineering design work is practiced. By framing engineering design practices as essentially epistemic practices (wrought with ambiguities) the analysis is sensitive to the heterogeneity and sociality that lies beyond topics usually discussed by engineering educators and employers (such as specialised and codified knowledge and core competences). Then, shifting attention to the ideas of changing and developing engineering design practice, the project offers an analysis of the infrastructures that uphold and stabilise education and occupation alike. The empirical material illustrates how changing existing practices requires more than initiative and local doings because the underlying infrastructures are tough and reaches across many interconnected bundles of practices. The PhD project thus contributes with novel practice theoretical understanding of practicing and changing engineering design in Denmark. summaRy 2 8 24 28 34 46 56 72 150 170 252 272