[PDF] Engineering Progress Through Development eBook

Author : Robert Roger Whyte
Publisher :
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 11,73 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Author : National Academy of Engineering
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 14,41 MB
Release : 1995-08-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 030905284X

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The way in which academic engineering research is financed and public expectations for the outcomes from such research are changing at an unprecedented rate. The decrease in support of defense-related research, coupled with the realization that many U.S. technological products are no longer competitive in the global market, has sent a shock wave through research universities that train engineers. This book argues for several concrete actions on the part of universities, government, and industry to ensure the flow and relevance of technical talent to meet national social and economic goals, to maintain a position of leadership in the global economy, and to preserve and enhance the nation's engineering knowledge base.

Author : Unesco
Publisher : UNESCO
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 24,70 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9231041568

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This report reviews engineering's importance to human, economic, social and cultural development and in addressing the UN Millennium Development Goals. Engineering tends to be viewed as a national issue, but engineering knowledge, companies, conferences and journals, all demonstrate that it is as international as science. The report reviews the role of engineering in development, and covers issues including poverty reduction, sustainable development, climate change mitigation and adaptation. It presents the various fields of engineering around the world and is intended to identify issues and challenges facing engineering, promote better understanding of engineering and its role, and highlight ways of making engineering more attractive to young people, especially women.--Publisher's description.

Author : Henry Petroski
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,28 MB
Release : 2018-10-16
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1250228077

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“Though ours is an age of high technology, the essence of what engineering is and what engineers do is not common knowledge. Even the most elementary of principles upon which great bridges, jumbo jets, or super computers are built are alien concepts to many. This is so in part because engineering as a human endeavor is not yet integrated into our culture and intellectual tradition. And while educators are currently wrestling with the problem of introducing technology into conventional academic curricula, thus better preparing today’s students for life in a world increasingly technological, there is as yet no consensus as to how technological literacy can best be achieved. " I believe, and I argue in this essay, that the ideas of engineering are in fact in our bones and part of our human nature and experience. Furthermore, I believe that an understanding and an appreciation of engineers and engineering can be gotten without an engineering or technical education. Thus I hope that the technologically uninitiated will come to read what I have written as an introduction to technology. Indeed, this book is my answer to the questions 'What is engineering?' and 'What do engineers do?'" - Henry Petroski, To Engineer is Human

Author : Rasul, Mohammad
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 26,72 MB
Release : 2012-04-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 1466609524

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