
Engineering In Time: The Systematics Of Engineering History And Its Contemporary Context
Imperial College Press
Published on 15. June 2004
Book
Hardback
348 pages
978-1-86094-433-8 (ISBN)
Description
Engineering represents an ordered activity of creative design and inventive manufacture of ingenious devices. Its practitioners have thereby stimulated individuals, enlivened communities, enriched civilizations, and contributed to the shaping of cultures.The authors of this innovative text develop a systematic framework for engineering in time, making extensive use of adaptive heterogeneous progressions. When combined with considerations of feedback, feedforward, recursion, and branching, an evolving and comprehensive characterization of engineering becomes evident. It is in this blending of chronology, emerging theory, and professional practice that engineering finds its foundational role in innovative design, device reliability, intellectual property, technology risks, public safety, professional ethics, material accounting, and other recurring themes relevant to contemporary engineering. Engineering clearly emerges as a complex and increasingly important profession.The authors introduce concepts and methods - including a critical definition of engineering -and selectively adapt symbolic-mathematical relations. The technical level of analysis is suitable for the undergraduate curriculum commonly encountered in colleges of engineering.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
630 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-86094-433-8 (9781860944338)
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Persons
Author
Tulane Univ, Usa
Pitzer College, Usa
Mcmaster Univ, Canada
Content
Introduction to Engineering; History of Engineering; Contemporary Context of Engineering