This thesis investigates the identity of software engineers and students in Stockholm in relation to engineering as a cultural discipline and focuses on the integration of sustainability and ethics into value systems at Sweden’s Royal Technical Institute, KTH. Software systems have a globa limpact on the environment and human behaviour. The socially constructed and embedded nature of Engineering and technology and the lack of diversity in the field warrant concern over the perpetuation of social inequalities and ecological harm. As the field faces old and new problems, it is forced to shift, giving rise to individual and collective tensions. These can be understood through boundaries, friction, and hybridity between paradigms. It is critical to politicise engineers’ role in global issues and deepen our understanding of their identity and values so that effective interventions can be made to utilise software engineering for the benefit of the humanities. I immersed myself in education at KTH using participatory methods to identify salient themes and values in engineer identity and the paradigm framework. Three main categories emerged that overlapped with previously established paradigms: traditional, economic,and moral engineering to which I add new dimensions and depth.This thesis demonstrates how engineer identity is negotiated in the context of modernity and provides fresh insight into norm-critical, values-based engineering with implications for what we can expect from engineering technology facing systemic challenges such as climate change.