Engineers Within a Local and Global Society

by Caroline Baillie

This introductory book of the series presents an overview of the key issues at stake. I consider how, as engineers, we might decide what is the right thing to do by exploring rights and notions of freedom and what these might mean in a world where we are, according to some, 'training for compliance'. I consider engineering in the past and how it has been used to contribute to social contexts in the Western world as well as in developing countries...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159829136X
• ISBN13: 9781598291360
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool
• Length: 69 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.5" x 9.3"