What Engineers Know and How They Know It:

Walter G. Vincenti (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

1993
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-4588-8 (ISBN)

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To solve their design problems, engineers draw on a vast body of knowledge about how things work. Examining previously unstudied historical cases, this author shows how engineering knowledge is obtained and presents a model to help explain the growth of such knowledge.

Walter G. Vincenti is professor emeritus of aeronautical engineering at Stanford university, past chairman of Stanford's Program in Values, Technolgy, Science, and Society, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Engineering As Knowledge
2. Design and the Growth of Knowledge: The David Wing and the Problem of Airfoil Design, 1980-1945
3. Establishment of Design Requirements: Flying-Quality Specifications for American Aircraft, 1918-1943
4. A Theoretical Tool for Design: Control-Volume Analysis, 1912-1953
5. Data for Design: The Aur Propeller Test of W.F. Durand and E.P. Lesley, 1916-1926
6. Design and Production: The Innovation of Flush Riveting in American Airplanes, 1930-1950
7. The Anatomy of Engineering Design Knowledge
8. A Variation-Selection Model for the Growth of Engineering Knowledge
Notes
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.3.1993
Zusatzinfo	36, 36 black & white illustrations
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Technik ► Fahrzeugbau / Schiffbau
	Technik ► Luft- / Raumfahrttechnik
	Technik ► Maschinenbau
ISBN-10	0-8018-4588-2 / 0801845882
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-4588-8 / 9780801845888
Zustand	Neuware