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