Engineering a Better Future Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences, and Innovation

This open access book examines how the social sciences can be integrated into the praxis of engineering and science, presenting unique perspectives on the interplay between engineering and social science. Motivated by the report by the Commission on Humanities and Social Sciences of the American Ass...

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Other Authors: Subrahmanian, Eswaran (Editor), Subrahmanian, Eswaran. editor (editor), Odumosu, Toluwalogo. editor, Tsao, Jeffrey Y. editor
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2018
Cham : 2018.
Edition:1st ed. 2018.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009430462306719
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Engineering Education and social sciences
  • Evolving from Single Disciplines to Renaissance Teams
  • Knowledge, Skill, and Wisdom: Reflections on Integrating the Social Sciences and Engineering
  • Innovations in Energy-Climate Education: Integrating Engineering & Social Sciences
  • Reconnecting Engineering with the Social and Political Sphere
  • Technology, Policy and Management: co-evolving or converging?
  • Ecole des Mines de Paris: a few lessons from a long history
  • Part II: Engineering and Social Sciences
  • The Cult of Innovation: Its Myths and Rituals
  • Does Law Wear out?
  • Engineering and Society
  • Dealing with the future: General considerations and the case of “mobility"
  • Designing the future we want
  • A Generative Perspective on Engineering: why the destructive force of artifacts is immune to politics
  • Part III: Study of science and engineering practice
  • The Art of Science practice
  • Do the best design ideas (really) come from conceptually distant sources of inspiration?
  • Caring for nanotechnology? Being an integrated social scientist.