Engineering a Better Future : Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences, and Innovation /: Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences, and Innovation. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Eswaran Subrahmanian, Toluwalogo Odumosu, Jeffrey Y. Tsao, editors.
• Editors: Subrahmanian, Eswaran; Odumosu, Toluwalogo; Tsao, Jeffrey Y
• Contents: Part I: Engineering Education and social sciences -- Evolving from Single Disciplines to Renaissance Teams -- Knowledge, Skill, and Wisdom: Reflections on Integrating the Social Sciences and Engineering -- Innovations in Energy-Climate Education: Integrating Engineering & Social Sciences -- Reconnecting Engineering with the Social and Political Sphere -- Technology, Policy and Management: co-evolving or converging? -- Ecole des Mines de Paris: a few lessons from a long history -- Part II: Engineering and Social Sciences -- The Cult of Innovation: Its Myths and Rituals -- Does Law Wear out? -- Engineering and Society -- Dealing with the future: General considerations and the case of "mobility" -- Designing the future we want -- A Generative Perspective on Engineering: why the destructive force of artifacts is immune to politics -- Part III: Study of science and engineering practice -- The Art of Science practice -- Do the best design ideas (really) come from conceptually distant sources of inspiration? -- Caring for nanotechnology? Being an integrated social scientist.
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Springer
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 607.11; Education; Technical education -- Congresses; Technology -- Sociological aspects -- Congresses; Engineering design -- Congresses; Management -- Congresses; Technical education; Engineering design; Management; Social Science -- Sociology -- General; Technology & Engineering -- Industrial Design -- Product; Business & Economics -- Production & Operations Management; Sociology; Technical design; Research & development management; Education -- Higher; Higher & further education, tertiary education
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319911342; 3319911341
• Notes: Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 12, 2018).
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