The Existential Pleasures Of Engineering

Author : Samuel C. Florman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312141041
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Existential Pleasures of Engineering written by Samuel C. Florman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1994 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world where engineering plays an increasingly important role, one wonders about the exact nature of the engineering experience in our time. In this second edition of The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, Samuel Florman perceptively explores how engineers think and feel about their profession. Dispelling the myth that engineering is cold and passionless, Florman celebrates it as something vital and alive. He views engineering as a response to some of our deepest impulses, rich in spiritual and sensual rewards. Opposing the "antitechnology" stance, Florman brilliantly emerges with a practical, creative, and fun philosophy of engineering that boasts his pride in his craft.

Author : Samuel C. Florman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466842369
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Existential Pleasures of Engineering written by Samuel C. Florman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1996-02-15 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humans have always sought to change their environment--building houses, monuments, temples, and roads. In the process, they have remade the fabric of the world into newly functional objects that are also works of art to be admired. In this second edition of his popular Existential Pleasures of Engineering, Samuel Florman explores how engineers think and feel about their profession. A deeply insightful and refreshingly unique text, this book corrects the myth that engineering is cold and passionless. Indeed, Florman celebrates engineering not only crucial and fundamental but also vital and alive; he views it as a response to some of our deepest impulses, an endeavor rich in spiritual and sensual rewards. Opposing the "anti-technology" stance, Florman gives readers a practical, creative, and even amusing philosophy of engineering that boasts of pride in his craft.

Author : Samuel C. Florman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466868570
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Civilized Engineer written by Samuel C. Florman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-04-22 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Civil engineer Samuel C. Florman's The Civilized Engineer is aimed at both those observing and commenting externally on engineering, and the practicing engineer—to reveal something of the art behind great engineering achievements, and to stimulate debate upon the author's hypothesis that "in its moment of ascendance, engineering is faced with the trivialization of its purpose and the debasement of its practice."

Author : Samuel C. Florman
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466853263
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Introspective Engineer written by Samuel C. Florman and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The profession of engineering is rarely the topic of serious public discussion. Multimedia, virtual reality, information superhighway-these are the buzzwords of the day. But real engineers, the people who conceive of computers and oversee their manufacture, the people who design and build information systems, cars, bridges, and airplanes, labor in obscurity. There are no engineering heroes, and we as a society are poorer for this. Like Florman's landmark book, The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, The Introspective Engineer is a clarion call to society. We must awaken to the reality that the quality of human life depends on increasingly creative technological solutions to the problems we face. We need cleaner, more economical engines, faster computers, more power, and a healthier planet if we are to survive. It is engineers who will lead us to this future.

Author : Eugene S. Ferguson
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262560788
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Engineering and the Mind's Eye written by Eugene S. Ferguson and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1994-03-29 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this insightful and incisive essay, Eugene Ferguson demonstrates that good engineering is as much a matter of intuition and nonverbal thinking as of equations and computation. He argues that a system of engineering education that ignores nonverbal thinking will produce engineers who are dangerously ignorant of the many ways in which the real world differs from the mathematical models constructed in academic minds.

Author : Samuel C. Florman
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1429941081
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Good Guys, Wiseguys, and Putting Up Buildings written by Samuel C. Florman and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-03-13 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good Guys, Wiseguys, and Putting Up Buildings is an engaging memoir about one man's career in construction--rising to the top of an industry renowned for crime, corruption, violence, physical danger, and the chronic risk of financial catastrophe. Starting in the Navy Seabees at the end of WWII, Samuel C. Florman made his way as a general contractor in New York City through the period of explosive development, private exuberance and the historic growth of publicly supported housing--all amidst the rise of the notorious Mafia families, and evolution of the Civil Rights Movement. His storied career brought him into contact with a variety of personalities: politicians and civil servants, developers and technocrats, saintly do-gooders and corrupt rapscallions. Along with the rousing adventures there were satisfactions of a different sort: the enchantment of seeing architecture made real; the pride of creating housing, hospitals, schools, places of worship--shelter for the body and nourishment for the spirit.

Author : W. J. King
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unwritten Laws of Engineering written by W. J. King and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John A. Hoschette
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0470530162
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Engineer's Career Guide written by John A. Hoschette and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-05-25 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the most complete career resource guide book for engineers dealing with the non-technical side of engineering. It provides career advice for engineers at all stages of their careers, whether newly graduated, mid-career, or soon-to-be-retired. This book provides many real world, practical, proven, common sense career tips supported by actual work and experiences/examples. Tips deal with problems the engineer may encounter with supervisors, co-workers and others in the corporation. The book provides step-by-step guidance on how to deal with career problems and come out ahead.

Author : Alastair S Gunn
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1351088661
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Ethics For Engineers written by Alastair S Gunn and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have used this book, manuscript form, as supplemental reading in our environmental engineering classes at Duke University. The discussion of ethics is usually reserved for the final few days of class, when the students should start asking ‘so what? about course material. We respond to this question by covering the principles of ethics in one lecture and spending two or more sessions discussing various readings. Engineering students who have spent four years learning how to crunch numbers and to solve technical problems to three significant figures admit that the study of environmental ethics introduces new and exciting concepts into their professional thinking, and provides a perspective which otherwise would be missing from their education.

Author : Arnold Pacey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262661201
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Meaning in Technology written by Arnold Pacey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoughtful meditation on the role of meaning and purpose in the development of technology.