The Revolt of the Engineers. Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession.

Layton, Edwin T., Jr.

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Title:	The Revolt of the Engineers. Social Responsibility and the American Engineering Profession.
Authors:	Layton, Edwin T., Jr.
Descriptors:	Business; Civil Engineering; Engineering; Engineering Education; Engineering Technology; Engineers; Ethics; History; Ideology; Professional Occupations; Science and Society; Science History; Scientific Attitudes; Social History; Social Responsibility; Sociocultural Patterns
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Publisher:	Johns Hopkins University Press, 701 W. 40th St., Baltimore, MD 21211 ($29.50 hard cover, $9.95 paperback).
Publication Date:	1986-00-00
Pages:	307
Pub Types:	Historical Materials
Abstract:	In examining the history of American engineering, this book emphasizes professionalism, social responsibility, and ethics. It explains how some engineers have attempted to express a concern for the social effects of technology and to forge codes of ethics which could articulate the profession's fundamental obligation to the public. The document's major sections address: (1) the engineer and business; (2) the evolution of the profession; (3) the ideology of engineering; (4) the politics of status; (5) the revolt of the civil engineers; (6) measuring the unmeasurable (scientific management and reform); (7) the engineer as reformer (Morris L. Cooke); (8) the engineering method personified (Herbert Hoover and the Federated American Engineering Societies); (9) the return to normalcy (1921-1929); and (10) the depression and the New Deal (the engineers ideology in decline). An epilogue entitled "The Rise of Scientific Professionalism" is followed by a bibliographic essay listing primary and secondary sources, and an index. (TW)
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Identifiers:	Professionalism
Record Type:	Non-Journal
Level:	2 - Available on microfiche
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ISBN:	ISBN-0-8018-3286-1
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Audiences:	Practitioners
Languages:	English
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