Essays about: "martin downey"

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  1. 1. Is There More to Engineering that Applied Science?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Brandteknik; Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

    Author : Martin Downey; [2012]
    Keywords : organisation; risk; reductionism; heuristic; applied science; epistemology; engineering; practice; analogue; history; human factors; FLMU06; Technology and Engineering;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the idea that engineering is an applied science, and what it means for the practice of engineering, particularly in the context of complex socio-technical systems. It traces the social history of engineering as a profession in the Anglo-Saxon context and the development of a ‘scientific ideology’ in engineering education which replaced the practice based learning of the shop-taught engineers. READ MORE