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Record Nr.

UNINA9910478891203321

Autore

Olson Steve <1956->

Titolo

Past Half Century of Engineering [[electronic resource] ] : And a Look Forward : Summary of a Forum

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, : National Academies Press, 2015

ISBN

0-309-36902-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (48 p.)

Disciplina

620.00973

Soggetti

Engineering -- United States -- History -- Congresses

Engineering - History - United States

Engineering & Applied Sciences

Engineering - General

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

FrontMatter; Preface; Contents; 1 Learning from Adversity: Innovation on the Final Frontier; 2 Earth as a Resource; 3 The Seeds of the Internet-and Its Future; 4 The Great Engineering Advances of the 21st Century; 5 Energy in the 21st Century; 6 Engineering and Medicine; 7 Fifty Years of Materials Science; 8 Expanding the Community of Innovators; Appendix A: Forum Agenda; Appendix B: Biographical Information