Abstract: Productivity has become a norm in modern society. It is used to judge the worth of individuals, programs, institutions, and whole societies. To challenge this norm is a modern heresy. This paper makes such a heretical ...

Abstract: Upon leaving office in 1961, U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered his often‐quoted farewell address, in which he warned about the “military‐industrial complex.” Less well‐known is his warning, in the same address, ...

Abstract: Engineering is a social enterprise. What makes this enterprise worthy of public trust? A model is developed to explain how disciplinary communities within engineering evolve credible bodies of knowledge. Such bodies of ...

Abstract: Modern society depends upon organizational systems for much of its information, particularly with respect to the assessment of large scale technological projects. It is reasoned that organizations tend to distort information ...

Abstract: The gap between engineering and the liberal arts is so great that students, faculty, and practitioners can rarely describe the connections except in superficial terms. For the most part, engineering and the liberal arts ...