| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 331 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Annotation Engineering represents an ordered activity of creative design and inventive manufacture of ingenious devices. Its practitioners have thereby stimulated individuals, enlivened communities, enriched civilizations, and contributed to the shaping of cultures. The authors of this innovative text develop a systematic framework for engineering in time, making extensive use of adaptive heterogeneous progressions. When combined with considerations of feedback, feedforward, recursion, and branching an evolving and comprehensive characterization of engineering becomes evident. It is in this blending of chronology, emerging theory, and professional practice that engineering finds its foundational role in innovation design, device reliability, intellectual property, technology risks, public safety, professional ethics, material accounting, and other recurring themes relevant to contemporary engineering. Engineering clearly emerges as a complex and increasingly important profession. The authors introduce concepts and methods -- including a critical definition of engineering -- and selectively adapt symbolic-mathematical relations. The technical level of analysis is suitable for the undergraduate curriculum commonly encountered in colleges of engineering. |
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Annotation The authors of this innovative text develop a systematic framework for engineering in time, making extensive use of adaptive heterogeneous progressions. When combined with considerations of feedback, feedforward, recursion, and branching, an evolving and comprehensive characterization of engineering becomes evident. It is in this blending of chronology, emerging theory, and professional practice that engineering finds its foundational role in innovative design, device reliability, intellectual property, technology risks, public safety, professional ethics, material accounting, and other recurring themes relevant to contemporary engineering. Engineering clearly emerges as a complex and increasingly important profession. The authors introduce concepts and methods - including a critical definition of engineering -and selectively adapt symbolic-mathematical relations. The technical level of analysis is suitable for the undergraduate curriculum commonly encountered in colleges of engineering. |
| Contents |
Preface; Acknowledgment; Contents; 1. About Engineering Identifying a Framework; 2. Prehistoric Engineering (1̃06 BP1̃04 BP) Primal Discovery of Devices; 3. Ancient Engineering (8̃000 BCE5̃00 CE) Societal Interest in Devices; 4. Medieval Engineering (5̃00 CE1̃400) Societal Promotion of Devices; 5. Renascent Engineering (1̃4001̃800) Organizing for Device Production; 6. Expansive Engineering (1̃8001̃940) Environmental Impact of Devices; 7. Modern Engineering (1̃9401̃990) Expanding Reach of Devices; 8. Contemporary Engineering (1̃9902̃000+) Prospects for Closure. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Engineering.
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Engineering. |
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Engineering -- History.
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Baetz, B. W. (Brian W.)
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Volti, Rudi.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Harms, A.A. Engineering in time. London : Imperial College Press ; New York : Distributed by World Scientific Pub. Co., ©2004 1860944337 (OCoLC)56564781 |
| ISBN |
1860944337 |
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9781860944338 |
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1860945988 (electronic book) |
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9781860945984 (electronic book) |
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