On The Outskirts Of Engineering

Author : Karen L. Tonso
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789087903534

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On the Outskirts of Engineering by Karen L. Tonso Pdf

On the Outskirts of Engineering: Learning Identity, Gender, and Power via Engineering Practice falls at the intersection of research about women in sites of technical practice and ethnographic studies of learning in communities of practice. Grounded in long-term participation on student teams completing real-world projects for industry and government clients, Outskirts provides an insider look at forms of engineering practice—the cultural production of engineer identity, of the ways that gender is made real in such sites of practice, and of power relations that emerge in response to enculturated practices that organize everyday life. Outskirts contributes to understanding cultural obduracy and the movement of some men and most women to the outskirts of engineering.

Author : Kyonghee Han,Gary Lee Downey
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783031021282

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Engineers for Korea by Kyonghee Han,Gary Lee Downey Pdf

This book follows the fraught attempts of engineers to identify with Korea as a whole. It is for engineers, both Korean and non-Korean, who seek to become better critical analysts of their own expertise, identities, and commitments. It is for non-engineers who encounter or are affected by Korean engineers and engineering, and want to understand and engage them. It is for researchers who serve as critical participants in the making of engineers and puzzle over the contents and effects of techno-national formation.

Author : Matthew Wisnioski
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780262304269

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Engineers for Change by Matthew Wisnioski Pdf

An account of conflicts within engineering in the 1960s that helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history. In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil rights activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, challenging their fellow engineers to embrace a more humane vision of technology. In Engineers for Change, Matthew Wisnioski offers an account of this conflict within engineering, linking it to deep-seated assumptions about technology and American life. The postwar period in America saw a near-utopian belief in technology's beneficence. Beginning in the mid-1960s, however, society—influenced by the antitechnology writings of such thinkers as Jacques Ellul and Lewis Mumford—began to view technology in a more negative light. Engineers themselves were seen as conformist organization men propping up the military-industrial complex. A dissident minority of engineers offered critiques of their profession that appropriated concepts from technology's critics. These dissidents were criticized in turn by conservatives who regarded them as countercultural Luddites. And yet, as Wisnioski shows, the radical minority spurred the professional elite to promote a new understanding of technology as a rapidly accelerating force that our institutions are ill-equipped to handle. The negative consequences of technology spring from its very nature—and not from engineering's failures. “Sociotechnologists” were recruited to help society adjust to its technology. Wisnioski argues that in responding to the challenges posed by critics within their profession, engineers in the 1960s helped shape our dominant contemporary understanding of technological change as the driver of history.

Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2006-02-07
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780309180269

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Frontiers of Engineering by National Academy of Engineering Pdf

This volume includes 16 papers from the National Academy of Engineering's 2005 U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE) Symposium held in September 2005. USFOE meetings bring together 100 outstanding engineers (ages 30 to 45) to exchange information about leading-edge technologies in a range of engineering fields. The 2005 symposium covered four topic areas: ID and verification technologies, engineering for developing communities, engineering complex systems, and energy resources for the future. A paper by dinner speaker Dr. Shirley Ann Jackson, president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is also included. The papers describe leading-edge research on face and human activity recognition, challenges in implementing appropriate technology projects in developing countries, complex networks, engineering bacteria for drug production, organic-based solar cells, and current status and future challenges in fuel cells, among other topics. Appendixes include information about contributors, the symposium program, and a list of meeting participants. This is the eleventh volume in the USFOE series.

Author : Adrian G. Traas, Center of Military History United States Department of the Army
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780359127122

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Engineers at War (United States Army in Vietnam Series) by Adrian G. Traas, Center of Military History United States Department of the Army Pdf

Author : Donna M. Riley
Publisher : Morgan & Claypool Publishers
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9781598296266

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Engineering and Social Justice by Donna M. Riley Pdf

The profession of engineering in the United States has historically served the status quo, feeding an ever-expanding materialistic and militaristic culture, remaining relatively unresponsive to public concerns, and without significant pressure for change from within. This book calls upon engineers to cultivate a passion for social justice and peace and to develop the skill and knowledge set needed to take practical action for change within the profession. Because many engineers do not receive education and training that support the kinds of critical thinking, reflective decision-making, and effective action necessary to achieve social change, engineers concerned with social justice can feel powerless and isolated as they remain complicit. Utilizing techniques from radical pedagogies of liberation and other movements for social justice, this book presents a roadmap for engineers to become empowered and engage one another in a process of learning and action for social justice and peace.

Author : Steen Hyldgaard Christensen,Anders Buch,Eddie Conlon,Christelle Didier,Carl Mitcham,Mike Murphy
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783031116018

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Engineering, Social Sciences, and the Humanities by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen,Anders Buch,Eddie Conlon,Christelle Didier,Carl Mitcham,Mike Murphy Pdf

This book presents a critical examination of conversations between engineering, social sciences, and the humanities asking whether their conversations have come of age. These conversations are important because ultimately their outcome have real world consequences in engineering education and practice, and for the social and material world we inhabit. Taken together the 21 chapters provide scholarly-argued responses to the following questions. Why are these conversations important for engineering, for social sciences, and for the humanities? Are there key places in practice, in the curriculum, and in institutions where these conversations can develop best? What are the barriers to successful conversations? What proposals can be made for deepening these conversations for the future? How would we know that the conversations have come of age, and who gets to decide? The book appeals to scholarly audiences that come together through their work in engineering education and practice. The chapters of the book probes and access the meetings and conversations, and they explore new avenues for strengthening dialogues that transcend narrow disciplinary confines and divisions. “The volume offers a rich collection of descriptive resources and theoretical tools that will be useful for researchers of engineering practices, and for those aiming to reshape the engineering lifeworld through new policies. The book depicts the current state of the art of the most visible SSH contributions to shaping engineering practices, as well as a map of research gaps and policy problems that still need to be explored.” - Dr. Ir. Lavinia Marin, TU Delft, Electrical Engineering and Philosophy

Author : Henry Coddington Meyer,Charles Frederick Wingate
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Building
ISBN : UOM:39015084574535

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Engineering Record, Building Record and Sanitary Engineer by Henry Coddington Meyer,Charles Frederick Wingate Pdf

Author : Robert D. Lewis
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780820350134

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Calculating Property Relations by Robert D. Lewis Pdf

Combining theories of calculation and property relations and using an array of archival sources, this book focuses on the building and decommissioning of state-owned defense factories in World War II-era Chicago. Robert Lewis's rich trove of material--drawn from research on more than six hundred federally funded wartime industrial sites in metropolitan Chicago--supports three major conclusions. First, the relationship of the key institutions of the military-industrial complex was refashioned by their calculative actions on industrial property. The imperatives of war forced the federal state and the military to become involved in industrial matters in an entirely new manner. Second, federal and military investment in defense factories had an enormous effect on the industrial geography of metropolitan Chicago. The channeling of huge lumps of industrial capital into sprawling plants on the urban fringe had a decisive impact on the metropolitan geographies of manufacturing. Third, the success of industrial mobilization was made possible through the multi-scale relations of national and locational interaction. National policy could only be realized by the placing of these relations at the local level. Throughout, Lewis shows how the interests of developers, factory engineers, corporate executives, politicians, unions, and the working class were intimately bound up with industrial space. Offering a local perspective on a city permanently shaped by national events, this book provides a richer understanding of the dynamics of wartime mobilization, the calculative actions of political and business leaders, the social relations of property, the working of state-industry relations, and the making of industrial space.

Author : Judith Samsom McIlwee,J. Gregg Robinson
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1992-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791408698

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Women in Engineering by Judith Samsom McIlwee,J. Gregg Robinson Pdf

Who are the women who became engineers in the 1970s and 1980s? How have they fared in the most male-dominated profession in America? This is the first book to answer these questions. It explores the backgrounds, family lives, work experiences, and attitudes of engineers in order to explain the unequal patterns of career development for women, who generally hold lower positions and receive fewer promotions than their male counterparts. McIlwee and Robinson synthesize two theoretical approaches frequently used to explain the status of women in the workforce--gender role and structural theories--providing new insights into improving women's careers in traditionally male occupations.

Author : Dana S. Adler
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781291334739

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A Posture of Defence by Dana S. Adler Pdf

Author : Steen Hyldgaard Christensen,Carl Mitcham,Bocong Li,Yanming An
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-30
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789400752825

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Engineering, Development and Philosophy by Steen Hyldgaard Christensen,Carl Mitcham,Bocong Li,Yanming An Pdf

This inclusive, cross-cultural study rethinks the nexus between engineering, development, and culture. It offers diverse commentary from a range of disciplinary perspectives on how the philosophies of today’s cultural triumvirate—American, European and Chinese—are shaped and given nuance by the cross-fertilization of engineering and development. Scholars from the humanities and social sciences as well as engineers themselves reflect on key questions that arise in this relational context, such as how international development work affects the professional views, identities, practice and ethics of engineers. The first volume to offer a systematic and collaborative study that cuts across continental boundaries, the book delineates the kinds of skills and competences that tomorrow’s engineering success stories will require, and analyzes fascinating aspects of the interplay between engineering and philosophy, such as how traditionally Chinese ways of thinking can influence modern engineering practice in the world’s most populous country. China’s problematic mix of engineering woes and wonders, from the high-profile crash on its high-profile rail network to its ‘bird’s nest’ Olympic stadium, adds to the urgency for reform, while Europe’s Enlightenment-informed legal frameworks are contrasted with Chinese mechanisms in their governance of the field of nanotechnology, a crucial element of future technical evolution. Fascinating and compelling in equal measure, this volume addresses one of the topics at the leading edge of humanity’s quest to survive, and to thrive.​

Author : Disha Experts
Publisher : Disha Publications
Page : 593 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789388373883

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Guide to RRB Junior Engineer Stage II Civil & Allied Engineering 3rd Edition by Disha Experts Pdf

Guide to RRB Junior Engineer Stage II Civil & Allied Engineering 3rd Edition covers all the 5 sections including the Technical Ability Section in detail. • The book covers the complete syllabus as prescribed in the latest notification. • The book is divided into 5 sections which are further divided into chapters which contains theory explaining the concepts involved followed by Practice Exercises. • The Technical section is divided into 17 chapters. • The book provides the Past 2015 & 2014 Solved questions at the end of each section. • The book is also very useful for the Section Engineering Exam.

Author : Patrick Doyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1901
Category : Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015086648022

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Indian Engineering by Patrick Doyle Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951P011841634

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Air Force Engineering & Services Quarterly by Anonim Pdf