The human side of engineering / / John Heywood ; foreword by Mani Mina

• Autore: Heywood John <1930-, >
• Pubblicazione: [San Rafael, California] : , : Morgan & Claypool, , 2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (168 pages)
• Disciplina: 620.0023
• Soggetto topico: Engineering - Social aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: agency; assumptions; change; common good; communication; community; contractualism; constructivism; consequentialism; curriculum; duty; development; engineering; engineering education; enterprise; epistemology; ethics; engineering ethics; fear; higher education; judgement; knowledge; language; learning; learning organization; life-long learning; management; mobility; morality; open-system; closed system; organization; the person; perception; philosophy; philosophy of engineering; professional; realism; reflection; responsibilities; rights; schema; self-management; social system; transfer of learning; team-work; technological literacy; truth; university; virtues; ways of thinking; work; workforce
• Note generali: Part of: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: It all depends on what you mean by... -- Thinking about thinking -- Things are not always what they seem -- Meaning: true or false: real or imagined -- From perception to self-perception and a little management en-route -- Sharing problems: living in communities -- Thinking about making a good engineer possible -- Aspiration in engineering -- Preparing for the future: individuals and organizations -- Changing us: changing society -- Journey's end: a new beginning? -- Questioning our assumptions: adaptability and change -- Author's biography -- Author index -- Subject index.
• Sommario/riassunto: While in many university courses attention is given to the human side, as opposed to the technical side of engineering, it is by and large an afterthought. Engineering is, however, a technical, social, and personal activity. Several studies show that engineering is a community activity of professionals in which communication is central to the engineering task. Increasingly, technology impacts everyone in society. Acting as a professional community, engineers have an awesome power to influence society but they can only act for the common good if they understand the nature of our society. To achieve such understanding they have to understand themselves. This book is about understanding ourselves in order to understand others, and understanding others in order to understand ourselves in the context of engineering and the society it serves. To achieve this understanding this book takes the reader on 12 intellectual journeys that frame the big questions confronting the engineering professions.
• Titolo autorizzato: The human side of engineering
• ISBN: 1-62705-665-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910160670003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.; Synthesis lectures on engineering ; ; # 28. . 1939-523X