Engineering in Society (1985) / Chapter Skim
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Reflecting on the engineering method, the relationship between science and engineering and the role of creativity in engineering help clarify certain aspects of the overall enterprise called engineering. But consideration of these issues also reveals that no one of them, nor even all of them taken together, provides a basis for a comprehensive understanding of the nature of engineering.
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While the culture of engineering is a moving target, as Melvin Kranzberg has put it, the processes by which young engineers are acculturated and socialized into the profession are still of great importance. It is those processes, and the goals they are intended to serve, that we need to understand.
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The American Society of Civil Engineers jASCEJ, founded in 1852 and the first American engineering society, was dedicated to defending and advancing the image of the professional engineer represented by lervis. But the civil engineers' emphasis on personal autonomy was only possible in fields in which engineers were in fact independent.
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