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ArticlePublication Metadata only Growth of undergraduate education in design in the united states, 1988–2012(IEEE, 2017-10-03) İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali OğulcanAs part of a larger project that analyzes disciplinary and interdisciplinary growth in the United States, this article quantitatively investigates the expansion of undergraduate education in design at four-year colleges and universities between 1988 and 2012. It utilizes data from the US Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Survey (IPEDS), which is especially suitable for investigating field-level change. Results show that undergraduate design education is growing in both absolute and relative terms, but this growth varies according to different institution types and conditions. Hence, variables such as control type (i.e., public vs. private), Carnegie classification type, institution size, and institutional revenues have differential influences on the diffusion of bachelor's degree-granting programs and the share of bachelor's degrees. This study provides valuable insights to policymakers, administrators, and design educators who seek to make meaningful interventions within the academy, and it will advance our understanding of the changing institutional organization of design education and the future of design disciplines in the United States.ArticlePublication Metadata only Existential antagonisms: Boundary work and the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers(MIT Press, 2016) İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Er, Hamit Alpay; Industrial Design; ER, Hamit Alpay; İLHAN, Ali OğulcanIndustrial design (ID) is a fairly young and largely unknown profession in Turkey. Although significant developments have taken place in the field of ID in the past 15 years, the scope of scholarly attempts to analyze the sociological meaning of designing in the Turkish context is extremely limited. We use boundary work and professional ideology as salient concepts for a sociological understanding the ongoing professionalization process of Turkish industrial designers, who are developing professional identities and striving for recognition in the larger culture. This paper relies on 20 semi-structured interviews conducted with key players (i.e., ideologues) of the Turkish ID scene to analyze these boundary-work processes. We found that the positive collective identity of Turkish industrial designers is built on a formulation of negative others. These negative others are ideological antagonists that are pushed to the “other” side of the demarcation line. Negative others are especially dominant in the professional ideology of Turkish industrial designers because the perceived threats from these antagonists shape the collective consciousness. However, the construction of these others is an ambivalent process in which they also become ideological “friends.” We also demonstrate that professional ideology plays a pivotal role in producing, reproducing, and legitimizing claims of professionalism.ArticlePublication Metadata only Riding a long green wave: interdisciplinary environmental sciences and studies in higher education(Taylor & Francis, 2020) Johnson, E. W.; İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Frickel, S.; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali OğulcanWhat accounts for the remarkable growth of environmental sciences and studies (ESS) in US higher education over the past 50 years? This paper focuses on institutional characteristics to explain this 'long green wave' of expansion. Drawing on data from 1345 US higher-education institutions from 1980-2010, we employ three-level hierarchical models to assess institutional and state-level factors associated with the presence of environmental studies and sciences. Findings indicate that environmental studies majors are most likely to be present at liberal arts schools and in states more inclined to adopting environmentally friendly policies, and less likely to exist at schools with large minority enrollments. Environmental sciences majors are less likely to be present at schools with large female enrollments. Two case studies of early adopters highlight the role of faculty, rather than student activists, as change-agents pushing for the development of ESS on college campuses in the 1960s and 70s.ArticlePublication Metadata only Change in industrial designers’ jobs: The case of Turkey, 1984-2018(Taylor & Francis, 2020-08-21) Kaygan, P.; İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; İlhan, Işıl Oygür; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali Oğulcan; OYGÜR İLHAN, IşilThis paper examines the change in the forms of employment of industrial designers between 1984 and 2018 in Turkey. The empirical data come from the graduates of the four oldest industrial design departments in the country. Utilizing multiple sources, we collected longitudinal data on forms of employment and duration of jobs for a total of 1205 individuals. Drawing on this data, we present a descriptive analysis of the changing job patterns in in-house employment, self-employment, freelance work, academic jobs and part-time teaching jobs. Our findings show that throughout the three and a half decades (1) in-house employment remains the main form of employment, in which UX-focused jobs emerge as a recent and consistently increasing subcategory, (2) the percentage of self-employed job types dropped significantly, and this lacuna was filled by freelance jobs, and (3) there is a considerable increase in women's participation in industrial design jobs, particularly in in-house positions.Conference ObjectPublication Metadata only ETHICS-2021 Special Session 1: Corporate social responsibility and engineering education: ETHICS-202l Special Session, Thursday October 28,2021,3:00-4:30 PM ET(IEEE, 2021) Zhu, Q.; Martini, L.; McClelland, C.; Battalora, L.; Rulifson, G.; Kleine, M. S.; West, S.; Lucena, J.; İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Claussen, S.; Geiger, R.; Smith, J. M.; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali OğulcanCorporate social responsibility has a chameleon-like character. It exists as part of a larger ecology of related concepts: sustainability, corporate citizenship, business accountability, social performance, sustainable development, creating shared value, and ESG (environmental, social and governance). Its definition shifts by industry, geographic context, and company invoking the term. Some academics dismiss CSR as greenwash, while others uncritically treat it as a silver bullet for reconciling ethics and economics, morality and the market. This roundtable session highlights current research and practice on training engineers to navigate CSR as a heterogeneous and ethically complex field of practice. The roundtable will feature brief presentations on each topic and then be opened to discussion. Topics range from findings from a five-year research project that infused ethnographic research on CSR into engineering curricula at four different universities, to theories of 'relational CSR,' to assessments of the professional prospects for 'engineers for good' in the corporate job market.Conference ObjectPublication Open Access A co-authorship analysis of product and industrial design education literature, 2000-2015(The Design Society, 2018) İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Industrial Design; Bohemia, E.; Kovacevic, A.; Buck, L.; Childs, P.; Green, S.; Hall, A.; Dasan, A.; İLHAN, Ali OğulcanToday, collaboration is the norm rather than exception in scholarly publications. Through coauthorship scholars can increase the volume and quality of their scientific output. Utilising these networks, they establish knowledge communities, which shape how academic fields evolve. As such recognising the structure of these collaborations is important for understanding fields and their trajectories. This paper undertakes an exploratory quantitative analysis of co-authorship networks in industrial and product design literature extracted from Web of Science between 2000 and 2015. Results indicate that the number of co-authored papers is rising yet large research networks do not exist in this area.ArticlePublication Open Access Conceptions of professionalism in U.S. research universities: Evidence from the gradSERU survey(Springer, 2022-12) Brint, S.; İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali OğulcanRecent scholars of the professions have argued that a new hybrid form of professionalism is becoming dominant. This new form combines traditional commitments to ethics and community service with new commitments to managerial and entrepreneurial objectives. We analyze the perceptions of 4,300 U.S. graduate students in 21 fields concerning how well their programs have prepared them for leadership and management and for ethics and community service. These assessments allow us to examine the prevalence of this new conception of professionalism and to examine it in relation to two other conceptions: the “neo-classical” emphasis on ethics and community service as opposed to leadership and management, and another that emphasizes a divergence between business and technical professions on one side and social and cultural professions on the other. Hybridization was comparatively rare but occurred more frequently among students preparing for management, law, and medicine, and among men and students from more affluent families. We also find some support for the neo-classical thesis insofar as students tended to score higher on the ethics and community measure than on the leadership and management measure. However, the largest number of students took positions consistent with the divergence thesis.ArticlePublication Metadata only Collaboration in design research: An analysis of co-authorship in 13 design research journals, 2000–2015(Taylor & Francis, 2019) İlhan, Ali Oğulcan; Oğuz, Murat Can; Industrial Design; İLHAN, Ali Oğulcan; Oğuz, Murat CanThis paper utilizes social network analysis and multivariate statistical methods to quantitatively analyse co-authorship patterns between 2000 and 2015 in 13 influential design research journals. The results indicate that the importance and propensity of co-authorship is expanding in design research. Furthermore, the impact of an article, measured by year-adjusted citation counts, is significantly greater when it is co-authored. The structure of the co-authorship network is mostly comprised of small yet unconnected groups of authors, who seldom collaborate beyond a single article.