Engineering a Better Future: Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences, and Innovation

by Eswaran Subrahmanian (editor)

Part Engineering Education and social sciences.- Evolving from Single Disciplines to Renaissance Teams.- Knowledge, Skill, and Reflections on Integrating the Social Sciences and Engineering.- Innovations in Energy-Climate Integrating Engineering & Social Sciences.- Reconnecting Engineering with the Social and Political Sphere.- Technology, Policy and co-evolving or converging?.- Ecole des Mines de a few lessons from a long history.- Part Engineering and Social Sciences.- The Cult of Its Myths and Rituals.- Does Law Wear out?.- Engineering and Society.- Dealing with the General considerations and the case of "mobility".- Designing the future we want.- A Generative Perspective on why the destructive force of artifacts is immune to politics.- Part Study of science and engineering practice.- The Art of Science practice.- Do the best design ideas (really) come from conceptually distant sources of inspiration?.- Caring for nanotechnology? Being an integrated social scientist.

232 pages, Paperback

Published July 10, 2019