• Media type: Book
  • Title: The essential engineer : why science alone will not solve our global problems
  • Contains: Ubiquitous risk -- Engineering is rocket science -- Doctors and Dilberts -- Which comes first? -- Einstein the inventor -- Speed bumps -- Research and development -- Development and research -- Alternative energies -- Complex systems -- Two cultures -- Uncertain science and engineering -- Great achievements and grand challenges -- Prizing engineering.
  • Contributor: Petroski, Henry [Author]
  • Published: New York, NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010
  • Published in: A Borzoi book
  • Issue: 1. ed.
  • Extent: X, 274 S.; Ill
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 9780307272454; 0307272451
  • RVK notation: ZG 9060 : Technische Forschung
  • Keywords: Ingenieur > Technik
    Ingenieur > Technik
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  • Footnote: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Description: Ubiquitous risk -- Engineering is rocket science -- Doctors and Dilberts -- Which comes first? -- Einstein the inventor -- Speed bumps -- Research and development -- Development and research -- Alternative energies -- Complex systems -- Two cultures -- Uncertain science and engineering -- Great achievements and grand challenges -- Prizing engineering

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