ABSTRACT
This paper identifies the potential roles for construction history in engineering education and engineering culture. The paper acknowledges that engineering culture varies with region and with time. The paper equates engineering culture, in the context of construction, with the pragmatic application of reason, mathematics, applied science, economics and experience to building and infrastructure projects. Engineering culture is influenced by the academic training of engineers and technicians, and the work practices that have evolved within the engineering profession. The paper makes the case that including construction history in the engineering curriculum would improve the learning outcomes achieved by engineering programmes and hence would have a positive effect on engineering culture.
