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Title Engineering as a social enterprise / Hedy E. Sladovich, editor
Published Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1991

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 113 pages) : illustrations
Contents From deterministic dynamos to seamless-web systems / Thomas P. Hughes -- Cultural and sociotechnical values / Robert McC. Adams -- Business, consumers, and society-at-large : new demands and expectations / Marina v. N. Whitman -- Technology and government / John W. Fairclough -- The social function of engineering : a current assessment / George Bugliarello -- Pondering the unpredictability of the sociotechnical system / Robert W. Lucky -- Tribute to J. Herbert Hollomon / Roland W. Schmitt -- Engineering's great challenge : the 1960s / J. Herbert Hollomon
Analysis Engineering Social aspects
Notes "Papers presented during the 1990 Meeting of the National Academy of Engineering in a symposium dedicated to the memory of J. Herbert Hollomon."
"Presented ... during the Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting ... 3 October 1990, in Washington, D.C."--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject Engineering -- Social aspects
SCIENCE -- Philosophy & Social Aspects.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Social Aspects.
Engineering -- Social aspects
Technologie.
Sociale waarneming.
Genre/Form Electronic book
Form Electronic book
Author Sladovich, Hedy E.
Hollomon, J. Herbert (John Herbert)
National Academy of Engineering. Meeting (26th : 1990 : Washington, D.C.)
LC no. 91061730
ISBN 0585001960
9780585001968
1280211768
9781280211768
9786610211760
6610211760
0309572363
9780309572361