Designing Engineers

Name: Designing Engineers
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ISBN: 9780262522120

ISBN-10: 0262522128

ISBN-13: 9780262522120

Edition: 1996 (Reprint)

Authors: Louis L. Bucciarelli

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The products of engineering design are everywhere, but who or what determines their form and function? Their surfaces are usually cold, seemingly objective, as if they existed outside of history of the technologies that are so much a part of our lives. Written by a practicing engineer, Designing Engineersyields clues to this mystery by probing deeply into the everyday world of engineering. In doing so, it reveals significant discrepancies between our ideal image of design as an instrumental process and the reality of design as a historically situated social process that is full of uncertainty and ambiguity. Designing Engineersdescribes the evolution of three disparate projects: an x-ray…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 1/31/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



Preface



Introduction



Engineering Observations



The Object



Cosmology



Ecology



Design Discourse



Endings


Notes


Index