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List of books and articles on engineering and engineers.
  • Barry M. Katz, Technology and Culture: A Historical Romance, Stanford Press Alumni Series, 1990.
  • Lawrence P. Grayson, The Making of an Engineer, An Illustrated History of Engineering Education in the United Statesand Canada, Wiley, 1993
  • George Bugliarello, “Engineering”, Editorial in American Scientist, published by Sigma Xi, vol. 81, no. 3, May-June, 1993,page 206.
  • Norman Hackerman and Kenneth Ashworth, Conversations on the Uses of Science and Technology, University of North Texas Press,1996.
  • Robert Pool, Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology, Oxford University Press, 1997.
  • John Horgan, The End of Science, Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age, Addison-Wesley,1996; and Broadway Books, 1997.
  • Derry and Trevor I. Williams, A Short History of Technology: From the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900, Oxford University Press,1961; and Dover, 1993.
  • Ruth Schwartz Cowan, A Social History of American Technology, Oxford, 1997.
  • Richard Rhodes, Visions of Technology, From Marconi, Wright and Ford to the Thinkers of Today and Tomorrow, Simon&Schuster, 1999.
  • N. Rosenberg, R. Landau, and D. C. Mowery, Technology and the Wealth of Nations, Stanford, 1992.
  • R. S. Lowen, Creating the Cold War University: The Transformation of Stanford, Univ. of Calif. Press, 1997.
  • Vannevar Bush, Science, The Endless Frontier: A Report to the President on a Program for Postwar Scientific Research, USGovernment Printing Office, 1945.
  • Michael Dertouzos, What Will Be, How the New World of Information will Change our Lives, Harper Collins, 1997.
  • Kirby, S. Withington, A. B. Darling, and F. G. Kilgour, Engineering in History, McGraw-Hill, 1956; and Dover, 1990.
  • Samuel C. Florman, The Existential Pleasures of Engineering, St. Martin’s Press, 1976.
  • Donald Christiansen, editor, Engineering Excellence – Cultural and Organizational Factors, IEEE Press, 1987.
  • James L. Adams, Flying Buttresses, Entropy and O-Rings: The World of an Engineer, Harvard Press, 1991.
  • Carl Mitcham, Thinking through Technology: The Path Between Engineering and Philosophy, University of Chicago, 1994.
  • Don Ihde, Philosophy of Technology, An Introduction, Paragon House, 1993.
  • Bruno Latour, Aramis or The Love of Technology, The story of a 24 year design of a guided transportation system in France thatwas dropped in 1987, Harvard, 1997.
  • Fred Hapgood, Up the Infinite Corridor: MIT and the Technical Imagination, Addison-Wesley, 1993.
  • Subrata Dasgupta, Technology and Creativity, Oxford University Press, 1996.
  • Peter F. Drucker, Post-Capitalist Society, Harper Business, 1993.
  • Alvin Toeffler, The Third Wave, Bantam Books, 1980.
  • Alvin and Heidi Toeffler, Powershift, Bantam, 1990.
  • Alvin and Heidi Toeffler, Creating a New Civilization, Turner, 1995.
  • Don Ihde, Technology and the Lifeworld, From Garden to Earth, Indiana Press, 1990;
  • Kenneth J. Gergen, The Saturated Self, Dilemmas of Identity in Contemporary Life, Basic Books, 1991.
  • Neil Postman, Technopoly, The Surrender of Culture to Technology, Vantage, 1993.
  • Hardison, Jr., Disappearing Through the Skylight, Culture and Technology in the Twentieth Century, Penguin Book, 1989.
  • Frederick Seitz, The Science Matrix, Springer-Verlag, 1992.
  • John Hatton and Paul B. Plouffe, Science and Its Ways of Knowing, Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a bodyof knowledge, Prentice Hall, 1997.
  • Henry Petroski, Beyond Engineering, Essays and Other Attempts to Figure without Equations, St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
  • Kingery, R. D. Berg, and E. H. Schillinger, Men and Ideas in Engineering, Twelve Histories from Illinois, University of IllinoisPress, 1967.
  • Robert C. Goodpasture, Engineers and Ivory Towers: Hardy Cross, McGraw-Hill, 1952
  • Raymond B. Landis, Studying Engineering, A Road map to a Rewarding Career, Discovery Press, 1995.
  • James L. Adams, The Care&Feeding of Ideas, A Guide to Encouraging Creativity, Addison-Wesley, 1986.
  • J. Campbell Martin, The Successful Engineer: Personal and Professional Skills - a Sourcebook, McGraw-Hill, 1993.
  • Michal McMahon, The Making of a Profession: A Century of Electrical Engineering in America, IEEE Press, 1984.
  • Joel, Jr. And G. E. Schindler, Jr., A History of Engineering&Science in the Bell System, Switching Technology (1925-1975), Bell Laboratories, 1982.
  • James M. Nyce and Paul Kahn, editors, From Memex to Hypertex: Vannevar Bush and the Mind’s Machine, Academic Press, 1991.
  • Albert Borgmann, Technology and the Character of Contemporary Life, A Philosophical Inquiry, University of Chicago Press,1984.
  • Samuel C. Florman, “The Education of an Engineer,” The American Scholar, winter, 1985/86, pages 97-107.
  • David F. Noble, America by Design: Science, Technology and the Rise of Corporate Capitalism, Oxford University Press,1979.
  • R. Hamming, “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics”, The American Mathematical Monthly, vol. 87, Feb. 1980.
  • Thomas P. Hughes, The American Genesis: A Century of Invention and Technological Enthusiasm 1870-1970, Viking Press,1989.
  • Carl W. Hall, “The Age of Synthesis”, The Bent of Tau Beta Pi, Summer 1997, pp. 17-19. Also, The Age of Synthesis: A Treatiseand Sourcebook (Worcester Polytechnic Institute Studies in Science, Technology and Culture, Vol. 16), Peter Lang Publishing,1995.
  • Derek J. de Solla Price, Little Science, Big Science … and Beyond, The use of science to study the doing of science, ColumbiaUniversity Press, 1963, 1986.
  • C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures and a Second Look, Cambridge Press, 1959, 1993.
  • Dian Olson Belanger, Enabling American Innovation, Engineering and the NSF, Purdue University Press, 1998.
  • Hazeltine, Appropriate Technology: Tools, Choices, and Implications, Academic Press, 1998.
  • National Academy of Engineering, Frontiers of Engineering: Reports on Leading Edge Engineering from the 1998 NAE Symposium onFrontiers of Engineering, National Academy Press, Washington, 1999.
  • Albert H. Teich, Technology and the Future, Seventh Edition, AAAS, St. Martin’s Press, 1997.
  • Peter J. Denning, editor, The Invisible Future: The Seamless Integration of Technology into Everyday Life, McGraw-Hill, 2001. Acollection of essays from the ACM conference, Beyond Cyberspace, A Journey of Many Directions.
  • David Brown, Inventing Modern America: From the Microwave tothe Mouse, MIT Press,2002
  • Clayton M. Christensen, The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, Harvard Business School,1997.
  • David P. Billington, The Innovators: The Engineering Pioneers Who Made America Modern, Wiley, 1996.
  • Greg Pearson and A. Thomas Young, editors, Technically Speaking: Why all Americans Need to Know More About Technology,National Academy Press, 2002.
  • Alan Lightman, Daniel Sarewitz, and Christina Desser, editors, Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Questfor Human Mastery, Island Press, 2003.
  • Steven Brint, editor, The Future of the City of Intellect: The Changing American University, Stanford University Press,2002.
  • Billy Vaughn Koen, Discussion of THE Method, Conducting the Engineering Approach to Problem Solving, Oxford Press, 2003.
  • Charles M. Vest, Pursuing the Endless Frontier, Essays on MIT and the Role of the Research Universities, MIT Press, 2005.
  • Arun Kumar Tripathi, “Technologically Mediated Lifeworld, Ubiquity, vol. 5, Issue 41, Dec. 2005. An ACM WebPublication.
  • Harold Evans, They Made America, From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators; Little, Brown, andCompany, 2004.
  • John Steele Gordon, A Thread Across the Ocean, The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable, Perennial 2002.
  • Thomas P. Hughes, Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture, Chicago Press, 2004.

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