The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century

The Engineer of 2020: Visions of Engineering in the New Century

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To heighten the nation's economic productivity and heighten the potential of life worldwide, engineering schooling in the United States must anticipate and adapt to the dramatic changes of engineering practice. The Engineer of 2020 urges the engineering profession to recognize what engineers can build for the future straight through a wide range of leadership roles in industry, government, and academia--not just straight through technical jobs. Engineering schools should attract the best and brightest students and be open to new teaching and training approaches. With the accepted schooling and training, the engineer of the future will be called upon to come to be a leader not only in company but also in nonprofit and government sectors. The book finds that the next some decades will offer more opportunities for engineers, with inspiring possibilities improbable from nanotechnology, information technology, and bioengineering. Other engineering applications, such as transgenic food, technologies that affect personal privacy, and nuclear technologies, raise complicated group and ethical challenges. future engineers must be prepared to help the group reconsider and resolve these dilemmas along with challenges that will arise from new global competition, requiring thoughtful and concerted performance if engineering in the United States is to sustain its vibrancy and strength.

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Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America (Engineering Studies)

Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America (Engineering Studies)

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In the late 1960s an eclectic group of engineers joined the antiwar and civil proprietary activists of the time in agitating for change. The engineers were fighting to remake their profession, engaging their fellow engineers to embrace a more humane foresight of technology. In Engineers for Change, Matthew Wisnioski offers an list of this conflict within engineering, linking it to deep-seated assumptions about technology and American life. The postwar duration in America saw a near-utopian reliance in technology's beneficence. Starting 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 assosication 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 insight 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 community 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 insight of technological convert as the driver of history.

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