Enabling American Innovation: Engineering and the National Science Foundation (History of Technology Series (Purdue Univ Pr)) - Hardcover

Belanger, Dian Olson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1557531110 ISBN 13: 9781557531117

Verlag: Purdue University Press, 1998

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Book by Belanger Dian Olson

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"Clearly written, often provocative, the author shows how arbitrary definitions of science and engineering lead to serious consequences when they affect funding decisions. In turn, changes in funding can result in modifications of definitions. In a government bureaucracy such as the NSF, today's internal debts help mold tomorrow's research and the nation's long-term technological health." --Martin Reuss

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This study traces engineers' struggle to win intellectual, financial, and organizational recognition within the National Science Foundation (NSF), a federal agency formed in 1950 to support basic scientific research. The tools and arguments of this struggle altered over time, but engineers continued to assert the value of their contribution, usually measured in comparative budgetary terms, and philosophical debates, as they were played out through organizational manipulation. By the 1980s, NSF leaders agreed that engineering and science should enjoy an equal and mutually beneficial relationship within the NSF.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Purdue University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 1557531110
• ISBN 13: 9781557531117
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 375