In Pursuit of Technological Excellence: Engineering Leadership, Technological Change, and Economic Development

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Bloomsbury Academic, Jan 26, 1993 - Technology & Engineering - 200 pages

This work examines the relationships among engineering leadership, technological change, and economic development. Specifically, it reviews the role and contribution of engineers--through their education and work--in the pursuit of excellence and effectiveness in our increasingly pervasive technological development. The relationship between the rate of technological development, technological diffusion, and success in its application, and the role or position of engineers in industry and government is interdependent. Frankel concludes that while the United States continues its dominance in basic scientific research and technology development, the growing lag in developing and applying technology in a timely and effective manner is largely a result of the lack of engineers in senior decisionmaking positions in industry and government.

This work will be of interest to practicing engineers, practicing managers, and scholars and students of economics and technology development.

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Toward Technological Excellence
103
Model of the Engineer of the Future
125
The Meaning of Technology and Engineering
145
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ERNST G. FRANKEL is Professor of Ocean Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He teaches both in the School of Engineering and at the Sloan School of Management and has wide industrial, public service, and academic experience. He is the author of seven books including, most recently, Management of Technology Change (1990).

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TitleIn Pursuit of Technological Excellence: Engineering Leadership, Technological Change, and Economic Development
AuthorErnst G. Frankel
Editionillustrated
PublisherBloomsbury Academic, 1993
Original fromthe University of Michigan
DigitizedNov 27, 2007
ISBN027594476X, 9780275944766
Length200 pages
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