Engineering Tomorrow: Today's Technology Experts Envision the Next Century

by Dave Dooling and Trudy E. Bell

Book Overview

The rush of technology in the 20th century brought more advances than the 11th through 19th centuries combined. Automobiles and aircraft, television and radio, computers and global communications, medical imaging and the leap of humans beyond Earth's atmosphere -- all these were born from the creative spark and labor of scientists and engineers.

How can we ensure that technology is humane and not inane? Can nations mount an effective defense without...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0780353625
• ISBN13: 9780780353626
• Release Date: January 2000
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 2.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.7" x 10.7"

Customer Reviews

Nice Overview

This book has a nice, light intro into the areas engineers are working on, and current problems that need to be resolved in the future (how we may use nanotechnology, etc.). Engaging and a good way to get the brain moving, and keep you aware of where the field is going.

Must have coffee table book for the scientific minded...

Great book! They've taken the worlds leading engineers and ask them specific questions about what the future will hold. Informative and interesting.