Everyday engineering : an ethnography of design and innovation / edited by Dominique Vinck ; with contributions by Eric Blanco ... [et al.].

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Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2003.
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245 0 0 |a Everyday engineering :  |b an ethnography of design and innovation /  |c edited by Dominique Vinck ; with contributions by Eric Blanco ... [et al.]. 
260 |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b MIT Press,  |c 2003. 
300 |a 247 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
440 0 |a Inside technology 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p.[239]-244) and index. 
505 0 0 |g I.  |t Ordinary Technical Tasks and Their Complexity --  |g 1.  |t Socio-Technical Complexity: Redesigning a Shielding Wall --  |g 2.  |t The Nature and the Stakes of a Tool: The Genesis of a Design Aid Tool for Mechanical Engineering --  |g 3.  |t Social Complexity and the Role of the Object: Installing Household Waste Containers --  |g II.  |t The Social Worlds and Cultures of Design --  |g 4.  |t The Structural Engineer in the Design Office: A World, Its Objects, and Its Work Practices --  |g 5.  |t Contrasting Design Cultures: Designing Dies for Drawing Aluminum --  |g 6.  |t A Prototype Culture: Designing a Paint Atomizer --  |g III.  |t Technical Writing Practices --  |g 7.  |t Writing Procedures: The Role of Quality Assurance Formats --  |g 8.  |t The Role of Graphical Representations in Inter-Professional Cooperation --  |g 9.  |t Rough Drafts: Revealing and Mediating Design --  |t Epilogue: Approaches to the Ethnography of Technologies. 
520 1 |a "Everyday Engineering was written to help future engineers understand what they are going to be doing in their everyday working lives, so that they can do their work more effectively and with a broader social vision. It will also give sociologists deeper insights into the sociotechnical world of engineering. The book consists of ethnographic studies in which the authors, all trained in both engineering and sociology, go into the field as participant-observers. The sites and types of engineering explored include mechanical design in manufacturing industries, instrument design, software debugging, environmental management within companies, and the implementation of a system for separating household waste."--BOOK JACKET. 
650 0 |a Engineering  |x Social aspects. 
700 1 |a Vinck, Dominique. 
700 1 |a Blanco, Eric. 
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