The Future of Engineering

Examines contemporary challenges to engineering's identity as a profession and its role in society Creates promising connections between different disciplines and views from different cultures Includes papers by both established experts and upcoming stars in the field

Autorentext
Albrecht Fritzsche holds doctoral degrees in philosophy and management and worked for many years in the manufacturing industry. He teaches innovation studies at the Institute of Information Systems of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research is focused on collaboration practices, mediated action and indeterminacy patterns in the design and management of technical change and innovation.
Sascha Julian Oks graduated from University of Bayreuth and University of Stellenbosch with a Master of Science in business administration. He works as a research associate and doctoral student at the Institute of Information Systems of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. His research and teaching focuses on the field of industrial cyber-physical systems.

Inhalt

1. Translations of technology and the future of engineering an introduction.- 2. The One, the Few or the Many?: Using Independence as a Strategy in Engineering Development and Modeling.- 3. Practical Inferencea Formal Analysis.- 4. Intuition and Ineffability: Tacit Knowledge and Engineering Design.- 5. The Engineering Knowledge Research Program.- 6. Philosophy of Engineering and the Quest for a Novel Notion of Experimentation.- 7. Demarcating Simulation.- 8. Three Stages of Technical Artifacts' Life Cycle: Based on a Four Factors Theory.- 9. Métis: Reconfiguring the Philosophy of Engineering.- 10. Thorstein B. Veblen's Philosophy of Technology and Modern Capitalism.- 11. Energy technologies and human well-being. Using sustainable design for the energy transition.- 12. Technology, Society, and Survival.- 13. Manufacturing with a big M The Grand Challenges of Engineering in Digital Societies.- 14. Fostering Subjectivity in Engineering Education: Philosophical Framework and Pedagogical Strategies.- 15. Managing the State of the Art of Engineering: Learning from Medicine.- 16. What Ethics Owes Engineering.- 17. New Trends in Engineering Ethics - A Japanese Perspective.- 18. Nietzsche, Postphenomenology, and Nihilism-Technology Relations.- 19. Assisting Ourselves to Death - A philosophical reflection on lifting a finger with advanced assistive systems.- 20. Engineering for the Other: An Existential Examination of the Engineer's Role in Privacy by Design.