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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moriarty, Gene, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Engineering.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 216 p. )

Place of Publication:

University Park, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania State University Press, [2008]

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

The modern engineering enterprise. Process ; Process ethics ; Colonization

The premodern engineering endeavor. Person ; Virtue ethics ; Contextualization

The focal engineering venture. Product ; Material ethics ; Balance.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780271034928

0271034920

OCLC:

1253314079