Engineering In American Society
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Author | : Raymond H. Merritt |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2014-07-15 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 0813163897 |
Technology, which has significantly changed Western man's way of life over the past century, exerted a powerful influence on American society during the third quarter of the nineteenth century. In this study Raymond H. Merritt focuses on the engineering profession, in order to describe not only the vital role that engineers played in producing a technological society but also to note the changes they helped to bring about in American education, industry, professional status, world perspectives, urban existence, and cultural values. During the development period of 1850-1875, engineers erected bridges, blasted tunnels, designed machines, improved rivers and harbors, developed utilities necessary for urban life, and helped to bind the continent together through new systems of transportation and communication. As a concomitant to this technological development, states Merritt, they introduced a new set of cultural values that were at once urban and cosmopolitan. These cultural values tended to reflect the engineers' experience of mobility -- so much a part of their lives -- and their commitment to efficiency, standardization, improved living conditions, and a less burdensome life. Merritt concludes from his study that the rapid growth of the engineering profession was aided greatly by the introduction of new teaching methods which emphasized and encouraged the solution of immediate problems. Schools devoted exclusively to the education and training of engineers flourished -- schools such as Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and Stevens Institute of Technology. Moreover, business corporations and governments sought the services of the engineers to meet the new technological demands of the day. In response, they devised methods and materials that went beyond traditional techniques. Their specialized experiences in planning, constructing, and supervising the early operation of these facilities brought them into positions of authority in the new business concerns, since they often were the only qualified men available for the executive positions of authority for the executive positions of America's earliest large corporations. These positions of authority further extended their influence in American society. Engineers took a positive view of administration, developed systems of cost accounting, worked out job descriptions, defined levels of responsibility, and played a major role in industrial consolidation. Despite their close association with secular materialism, Merritt notes that many engineers expressed the hope that human peace and happiness would result from technical innovation and that they themselves could devote their technological knowledge, executive experience, and newly acquired status to solve some of the critical problems of communal life. Having begun merely as had become the planners and, in many cases, municipal enterprises which they hoped would turn a land of farms and cities into a "social eden."
Author | : Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge 3 Task Committee |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Civil engineering |
ISBN | : 9780784415221 |
This report outlines 21 foundational, technical, and professional practice learning outcomes for individuals entering the professional practice of civil engineering.
Author | : Raymond H. Merritt |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780598220059 |
Author | : Richard Weingardt |
Publisher | : Amer Society of Civil Engineers |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780784408018 |
Richard Weingardt provides a unique view into the history and progress of 32 great American civil engineers, from the 1700s to the present.
Author | : Kerstin Brückweh |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2012-10-09 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1137284501 |
Explaining crime by reference to abnormalities of the brain is just one example of how the human and social sciences have influenced the approach to social problems in Western societies since 1880. Focusing on applications such as penal policy, therapy, and marketing, this volume examines how these sciences have become embedded in society.
Author | : American Society of Civil Engineers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 506 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Civil engineering |
ISBN | : |
Vols. 29-30 include papers of the International Engineering Congress, Chicago, 1893; v. 54 includes papers of the International Engineering Congress, St. Louis, 1904.
Author | : Jerry R. Rogers |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 528 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : |
This collection contains 59 papers presented at the Third National Congress on Civil Engineering History and Heritage at the ASCE National Convention, held in Houston, Texas, October 10-13, 2001.
Author | : William Edward Kelly |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 466 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 9780784414811 |
Engineering for Sustainable Communities: Principles and Practices defines and outlines sustainable engineering methods for real-world engineering projects.
Author | : American Society of Civil Engineers |
Publisher | : Amer Society of Civil Engineers |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780784404881 |
Author | : Amy E. Slaton |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780674054639 |
Despite the educational and professional advances made by minorities in recent decades, African Americans remain woefully underrepresented in the fields of science, technology, mathematics, and engineering. Even at its peak, in 2000, African American representation in engineering careers reached only 5.7 percent, while blacks made up 15 percent of the U.S. population. Some forty-five years after the Civil Rights Act sought to eliminate racial differences in education and employment, what do we make of an occupational pattern that perpetually follows the lines of race? Race, Rigor, and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering pursues this question and its ramifications through historical case studies. Focusing on engineering programs in three settings--in Maryland, Illinois, and Texas, from the 1940s through the 1990s--Amy E. Slaton examines efforts to expand black opportunities in engineering as well as obstacles to those reforms. Her study reveals aspects of admissions criteria and curricular emphases that work against proportionate black involvement in many engineering programs. Slaton exposes the negative impact of conservative ideologies in engineering, and of specific institutional processes--ideas and practices that are as limiting for the field of engineering as they are for the goal of greater racial parity in the profession.