Engineering As a Social Enterprise

✍ Scribed by National Academy of Engineering; Hedy E. Sladovich

Publisher: National Academies Press
Year: 1991
Tongue: English
Leaves: 123
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

How is society influenced by engineering and technology? How in turn does society shape engineering and technology? This book from the National Academy of Engineering explores ways in which technology and society form inseparable elements in a complex sociotechnical system. The essays in this volume are based on the proposition that many forces move and shape engineering, technology, culture, and society. Six specialists both inside and outside the field of engineering offer views on how engineering responds to society's needs and how social forces shape what engineers do and what they can achieve.

✦ Subjects

Engineering -- Social aspects.

📜 SIMILAR VOLUMES

Social Networking as a Criminal Enterpri

📁 Social Networking as a Criminal Enterprise

✍ Catherine D Marcum; George E Higgins 📂 Library 📅 2014 🏛 Taylor and Francis, CRC Press 🌐 English

As social networking continues to evolve and expand, the opportunities for deviant and criminal behavior have multiplied. Social Networking as a Criminal Enterprise explores how new avenues for social networking criminality have affected our criminal justice system.With insight from field experts, t

No One Eats Alone: Food as a Social Ente

📁 No One Eats Alone: Food as a Social Enterprise

✍ Michael S. Carolan (auth.) 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Island Press/Center for Resource Economics 🌐 English

<p>This volume is about becoming better food citizens. The author argues that building community is the key to healthy, equitable, and sustainable food. While researching this book, the author interviewed more than 250 individuals, from flavorists to Fortune 500 executives, politicians to feedlot ma

No One Eats Alone: Food as a Social Ente

📁 No One Eats Alone: Food as a Social Enterprise

✍ Carolan, Michael S 📂 Library 📅 2017 🏛 Island Press 🌐 English

Social Enterprise: A Global Comparison

📁 Social Enterprise: A Global Comparison

✍ Janelle A. Kerlin 📂 Library 📅 2009 🌐 English

Art as Enterprise: Social and Economic E

📁 Art as Enterprise: Social and Economic Engagement in Contemporary Art

✍ Grace McQuilten; Anthony White 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 I.B.Tauris 🌐 English

Art is produced, circulated, consumed and disseminated within an economic system - it depends on money for its creation, for the livelihood of its makers, and for its distribution. In this sense, art can be understood as an enterprising activity. However, profit-making is rarely the primary goal of

The Art of Social Enterprise : Business

📁 The Art of Social Enterprise : Business as if People Mattered

✍ Carl Frankel; Allen Bromberger 📂 Library 📅 2013 🏛 New Society Publishers 🌐 English

Mission driven—business as a vehicle for change. The current business-for-profit model rewards short-term thinking, narrow self-interest, and a social-and-environmental-costs-be-damned attitude. Non-profits, while more focused on the greater good, tend to be inherently resource-challenged and rely o