Engineering : an endless frontier /

Annotation Genetic engineering, nanotechnology, astrophysics, particle physics: We live in an engineered world, one where the distinctions between science and engineering, technology and research, are fast disappearing. This book shows how, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, the goals of natur...

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Main Author: Auyang, Sunny Y.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 2004
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Table of Contents:
  • Technology takes off
  • Engineering for information
  • Engineers in society
  • Innovation by design
  • Sciences of useful systems
  • Leaders who are engineers.