The Introspective Engineer

Macmillan (1996)
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An exciting look at how engineering and engineers can shape the future of our society--from the author of the classic "The Existential Pleasures of Engineering". In this elegantly reasoned and passionately argued book, Samuel Florman suggests that at this moment in history, a few good technological fixes are just what the world needs.

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0312151527   9780312151522   031213987X

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The good engineer: Giving virtue its due in engineering ethics.Charles E. Harris - 2008 - Science and Engineering Ethics 14 (2):153-164.

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