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Engineering in Society (1985)

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Suggested Citation:"Presenters." National Research Council. 1985. Engineering in Society. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/586.
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ENGINEERING IN AN INCREASINGLY COMPLEX SOCIETY 130 PARTICIPANTS, CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING INTERACTIONS WITH SOCIETY Presenters James E. Brittain, School of Social Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Engineering in Industrial Research and Development" P. Thomas Carroll, Division of Science and Technology Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, "Orphaned Innovations: The Development of Large- Scale Solid Rocket Boosters at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory" Edward W. Constant II, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University, "Technological Knowledge about Engineering Manpower: Some Preliminary Considerations" Eugene Ferguson, University of Delaware and Hagley Museum, Panelist Samuel Florman, Kreisler, Borg, Florman Construction Company, New York, Panelist Robert Friedel, IEEE Center for the History of Electrical Engineering, "Engineers and the Micro Revolution: The Emergence and Impact of Solid- State Electronics" James Hansen, Historian for NASA, Langley Research Center, "The Revolt against Max Munk at Langley Aeronautical Laboratory: A Case Study of the Fate of an Eccentric in an American Engineering Community" David A. Hounshell, Curator of Technology, Hagley Museum, and Department of History, University of Delaware, "Redesigning Production Engineering: Mass Production and the Model Change" Thomas P. Hughes, Department of History and Sociology of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Panelist Melvin Kranzberg, Callaway Professor of the History of Technology, Georgia Institute of Technology, "Engineering Education and Sociotechnical Needs: Reaction and Interaction" Larry Lankton, Department of Science, Technology and Society, Michigan Technological University, "The Social Side of Early American Engineering" Stuart W. Leslie, Mellon Scholar in the History of Science, Johns Hopkins University, "Industrial Research and Product Development at General Motors"

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