Designing Engineers (Inside Technology Series)

Answers the question of how the products we use every day products of engineering design came to be the way they are, from conceptualization to production. Bucciarelli, engineer and educator, views engineering design as a socially-defined enterprise; here, he reveals the various levels of human negotiation and contribution necessary to create a product through an examination of three design projects in which he was involved. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.