Research on engineering education and practice indicates that engineers’ understanding of the “social” is underprioritized and discursively enacted as soft rather than hard technical disciplines. Despite the resounding accomplishments, due to democratic insufficiency engineering projects have often contributed to the cultural impoverishment of our lifeworld. Hence, a Bildung perspective is needed in engineering degree programs; a Bildung perspective taking its point of departure in the democratic, cultural, and human challenges of society. The discourse on Bildung has primarily taken place in relation to the pedagogical professions, whereas the engineering profession has often been overlooked. In this chapter, we make up for this by considering an understanding of Bildung that is suitable for engineering degree programs. The chapter brings forth the social and ethical responsibility embedded in engineering work in democratic societies and calls to mind John Dewey’s democratic understanding of ethics, politics, and education. The chapter projects how this understanding might offer an opportunity to reconstruct Bildung and rethink engineering professionalism and the very telos of engineering to contribute to the democratic and responsible resolutions of societal and technological challenges.