Living up to the code: Engineering as political judgment

International Journal of Engineering Education

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 314-327

  Little, Patrick ^a   Barney, Darin ^b   Hink, Richard ^b  

^a HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Engineering education; Ethics; Politics; Technology and society

Indexed keywords

EID: 42349089335     PISSN: 0949149X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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