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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780262522120 |
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Designing Engineers describes the evolution of three disparate projects: an x-ray inspection system for airports, a photoprint machine, and a residential photovoltaic energy system. In each case, we are taken through the hallways and into the meeting rooms of the company to watch over the shoulders of engineers as they engage in the manifold individual and collective work that goes into designing a new product.
Louis Bucciarelli was a consultant to one project and participated in the design process for the other two. In all three projects he examines both object — the way participants understood how things work — and process — the way they go about designing. What he learns is that engineering design is a social process that involves constant negotiation among many parties, not just engineers but marketing people, research scientists, accountants, and customers as well.
One of the strengths of the book is the way Bucciarelli uses the very language of engineering discourse to uncover the many levels at which negotiation takes place. Designing, it turns out, is as much about agreeingon definitions as it is about producing hard artifacts.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780262522120
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Mit Press
- Author:
- Subject:
- Engineering - General
- Subject:
- Social aspects
- Subject:
- Engineers
- Subject:
- Aspects
- Edition Description:
- Trade paper
- Series:
- Inside Technology
- Publication Date:
- January 1996
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- Professional and scholarly
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- 9
- Pages:
- 230
- Dimensions:
- 8.90x5.94x.50 in. .75 lbs.











