How Then Shall We Engineer? (with Derek Schuurman)

Our guest today has written A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers.

How do we build technology as Christians? What are the principles? Where are the goals the same and where are they different? Derek Schuurman speaks with us today about how we can imitate Jesus in how we build and design tech.

Derek C. Schuurman is a professor of computer science at Calvin University. Prior to arriving at Calvin, he worked as an engineer and taught for many years at Redeemer University. He is a fellow of the American Scientific Affiliation and an Associate Fellow of the Kirby Laing Center for Public Theology. He is the author of Shaping a Digital World: Faith, Culture and Computer Technology (IVP, 2013) and a co-author of A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers (IVP, 2022).

0:00 - Intro

2:54 - PSpice and Electric Cars

4:48 - Canada vs USA (and Christian education)

7:33 - Egbert Schuurman relation?

8:33 - Design Biblically: Parapets

10:10 - A book FOR engineers and designers? Why?

17:15 - Design Norms - SO KEY!

28:36 - Holistic Worldview With Bavinck and Concern on Agile Development

34:58 - "Redemptive" technology?

36:00 - Applying Design Norms

49:25 - Dreams and Science Fiction

• Links
• A Christian Field Guide to Technology for Engineers and Designers by Derek C. Schuurman
• Shaping a Digital World: Faith, Culture and Computer Technology by Derek C. Schuurman
• Christian Worldview by Herman Bavinck
• Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
• You Are What You Love - James K. A. Smith
• IEEE - Ethics - https://www.ieee.org/about/ethics/index.html
• AIforGood - https://aiforgood.itu.int/
• DataForGood - https://dataforgood.ca/
• AIandFaith - https://aiandfaith.org/

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Original Music by Abigail Neale

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This is episode 30 of What Would Jesus Tech.