Engineering: A Beginner's Guide
Discover the human side to the discipline that is profoundly more than nuts and bolts

Focusing on the impact of engineering on society and the world, McCarthy details the development of the discipline, explains what makes an engineering mind, and shows how every aspect of our lives has been engineered: from gadgets to our national infrastructure. Long considered tinkerers, problem solvers, and visionaries, engineers hold the keys to our real and virtual future.
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Engineering: A Beginner's Guide
Discover the human side to the discipline that is profoundly more than nuts and bolts

Focusing on the impact of engineering on society and the world, McCarthy details the development of the discipline, explains what makes an engineering mind, and shows how every aspect of our lives has been engineered: from gadgets to our national infrastructure. Long considered tinkerers, problem solvers, and visionaries, engineers hold the keys to our real and virtual future.
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Engineering: A Beginner's Guide

Engineering: A Beginner's Guide

by Natasha McCarthy
Engineering: A Beginner's Guide

Engineering: A Beginner's Guide

by Natasha McCarthy

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Discover the human side to the discipline that is profoundly more than nuts and bolts

Focusing on the impact of engineering on society and the world, McCarthy details the development of the discipline, explains what makes an engineering mind, and shows how every aspect of our lives has been engineered: from gadgets to our national infrastructure. Long considered tinkerers, problem solvers, and visionaries, engineers hold the keys to our real and virtual future.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781851686629
Publisher: Oneworld Publications
Publication date: 09/01/2009
Series: Beginner's Guides
Edition description: Original
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Natasha McCarthy is policy advisor at the Royal Academy of Engineering, UK, and a member of the planning group for the international Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering.

Table of Contents

Preface vi

Acknowledgements x

Illustrations xi

1 The evolution of the engineer 1

2 The world of the engineer and the engineering of the world 24

3 The mind and methods of an engineer: core elements in engineering 57

4 Social constructions: engineering and society 87

5 I tinker, therefore I am: engineering and knowledge 120

6 Legacy and inheritance: engineering's past and future 141

Notes 159

Further reading 162

Bibliography 163

Index 166

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