The engineering project : its nature, ethics, and promise / Gene Moriarty.

Main entry:

Moriarty, Gene.

Title & Author:

The engineering project : its nature, ethics, and promise / Gene Moriarty.

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Description:

viii, 216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The modern engineering enterprise. Process ; Process ethics ; Colonization -- The premodern engineering endeavor. Person ; Virtue ethics ; Contextualization -- The focal engineering venture. Product ; Material ethics ; Balance.

Summary:

"We all live our daily lives surrounded by the products of technology that make what we do simpler, faster, and more efficient. These are benefits we often just take for granted. But at the same time, as these products disburden us of unwanted tasks that consumed much time and effort in earlier eras, many of them also leave us more disengaged from our natural and even human surroundings. It is the task of what Gene Moriarty calls focal engineering to create products that will achieve a balance between disburdenment and engagement." "One of Moriarty's examples of a focally engineered structure is the Golden Gate Bridge, which "draws people to it, enlivens and elevates the human spirit, and resonates with the world of its congenial setting. Humans, bridge, and world are in tune." These values of engagement, enlivenment, and resonance are key to the normative approach Moriarty brings to the profession of engineering, which traditionally has focused mainly on technical measures of evaluation such as efficiency, productivity, objectivity, and precision."--Jacket.

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ISBN:

9780271032542 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0271032545 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780271032559
0271032553

Subject:

Engineering.
Ingénierie.
engineering.
Projektmanagement Ingenieurwissenschaften.
Ingenieurwissenschaften Projektmanagement.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 256499
Call No.: BIB 186880
Status: Available

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