Defining Technology and the Engineering Sciences

Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 27-63

  Mitcham, Carl ^a   Schatzberg, Eric ^b  

^a Department of Geology and Geological Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

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