Engineering Practice in a Global Context
eBook - ePub

Engineering Practice in a Global Context

Understanding the Technical and the Social

  1. 302 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Engineering Practice in a Global Context

Understanding the Technical and the Social

About this book

This volume aims to provide the reader with a broad cross-section of empirical research being carried out into engineers at work. The chapters provide pointers to other relevant studies over recent decades an important aspect, we believe, because this area has only recently begun to coalesce as a field of study and up to now relevant empirical re

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of contents
  6. Foreword
  7. About the editors
  8. Acknowledgement
  9. Introduction
  10. Chapter 1 On the historical nature of engineering practice
  11. Chapter 2 Towards a theoretical framework for engineering practice
  12. Chapter 3 The practical confrontation of engineers with a new design endeavour:The case of digital humanities
  13. Chapter 4 Engineering design teams: Considering the forests and the trees
  14. Chapter 5 Working together across disciplines
  15. Chapter 6 Engineering problem-solving in social contexts: ‘Collective wisdom’ and ‘ba’
  16. Chapter 7 Finding workable solutions: Portuguese engineering experience
  17. Chapter 8 Going back to heterogeneous engineering:The case of micro and nanotechnologies
  18. Chapter 9 Professional lock-in: Structural engineers, architects and the disconnect between discourse and practice
  19. Chapter 10 Observations of South Asian engineering practice
  20. Chapter 11 Mathematics in engineering practice: Tacit trumps tangible
  21. Chapter 12 Engineers’ professional learning: Through the lens of practice
  22. Glossary