David Blockley, <i>Creativity, Problem Solving and Aesthetics in Engineering: Today’s Engineers Turning Dreams into Reality </i> Priyan Dias, <i>Philosophy for Engineering: Practice, Context, Ethics, Models, Failure</i> reviewed by Carl Mitcham

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Journal ID (doi): 10.13169/prometheus.37.4.0397

Title: Prometheus

Abbreviated Title: PROM

Publisher: Pluto Journals

ISSN (Electronic): 1470-1030

Publication date Pub: 28 March 2022

Publication date Collection: 2022

Volume: 37

Issue: 4

Pages: 397-403

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[1 ]Renmin University of China Beijing 100872

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[* ] Correspondence: Carl Mitcham ( cmitcham@ 123456mines.edu )

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Creativity, Problem Solving and Aesthetics in Engineering: Today’s Engineers Turning Dreams into Reality by David Blockley (2019) Springer, Cham, hardback US$60, pp.xvii + 225, ISBN: 9783030382575

Philosophy for Engineering: Practice, Context, Ethics, Models, Failure by Priyan Dias (2019) Springer, Singapore, paperback £45, pp.xiii + 124, ISBN: 9789811512704

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D. Blockley (2014) Structural Engineering: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
D. Blockley (2020) Building Bridges: Between Theory and Practice, World Scientific, London.
D. Blockley and J. Henderson (1980) ‘Structural failures and the growth of engineering knowledge’, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, part I, 68, November, pp.719–28.
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[1] H. Arendt (1958) The Human Condition, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

[2] Aristotle (tr. H. Rackham, 1989) Athenian Constitution – Eudemian Ethics – Virtues and Vices, L285 V 20, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA.

[3] D. Blockley (2012) Engineering: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

[4] D. Blockley (2014) Structural Engineering: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Oxford.

[5] D. Blockley (2020) Building Bridges: Between Theory and Practice, World Scientific, London.

[6] D. Blockley and J. Henderson (1980) ‘Structural failures and the growth of engineering knowledge’, Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, part I, 68, November, pp.719–28.

[7] B. Cooper (1991) Action into Nature: An Essay on the Meaning of Technology, University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame IN.

[8] S. Florman (1980) ‘Technology and the tragic view’, Alternative Futures, 3, 2, pp.9–30.

[9] S. Florman (1987) The Civilized Engineer, St Martin’s Press, New York.

[10] S. Florman (1996) The Introspective Engineer, St Martin’s Press, New York.

[11] P. Gay (2013) The Party of Humanity: Essays in the French Enlightenment, Knopf, New York.

[12] J. Herkert (2001) ‘Future directions in engineering ethics research: microethics, macroethics and the role of professional societies’, Science and Engineering Ethics, 7, 3, pp.403–14.

[13] H. Jonas (1984) The Imperative of Responsibility: In Search of an Ethics for the Technological Age, University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

[14] C. Kulasuriya, W. Dias and M. Hettiarachchi (2002) ‘The aesthetics of proportion in structural form’, Structural Engineering, 80, 14, pp.22–7.

[15] C. Mitcham (2019) Steps toward a Philosophy of Engineering. Historico-Philosophical and Critical Essays, Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham MD.

[16] H. Petroski (1985) To Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design, St Martin’s Press, New York.