The Introspective Engineer
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| Rating | : | 4.72 (871 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 031213987X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 244 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The author of The Existential Pleasures of Engineering argues that our world's leaders must adopt an engineering mindset in designing solutions to moral and social problems that fit within the constraints of time, materials, and money.
Still Sensible after All These Years Though Samuel Florman's 1997 book feels flawed, perhaps by an understandable reluctance to seem too tough on professional peers, gentle readers will find many passages of unusual clarity. One might suspect that Florman had to suffer substantial within guild whining in the wake of The Civilized Engineer? The Introspective Engineer is less fierce, more carefully engineered to delight obvious clients & minimize comfort to doubters of technology. Florman flirts with panegyric, dwells on the certainly wonderful aspects of tec
Florman, author of The Existential Pleasures of Engineering and The Civilized Engineer, has written another passionate and elegant rationale of the engineering arts in the interest of awakening society to the need for creative technological solutions to our twenty-first-century problems.