EAN: 9783031009853

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This book investigates the close connections between engineering and war  broadly understood 
and the conceptual and structural barriers that face those who would seek to loosen those
connections. It shows how military institutions and interests have long influenced engineering
education  research  and practice and how they continue to shape the field in the present. The
book also provides a generalized framework for responding to these influences useful to
students and scholars of engineering  as well as reflective practitioners. The analysis draws
on philosophy  history  critical theory  and technology studies to understand the connections
between engineering and war and how they shape our very understandings of what engineering is
and what it might be. After providing a review of diverse dimensions of engineering itself  the
analysis shifts to different dimensions of the connections between engineering and war. First 
it considers the ethics of war generally and then explores questions of integrity for
engineering practitioners facing career decisions relating to war. Next  it considers the
historical rise of the military-industrial-academic complex  especially from World War II to
the present. Finally  it considers a range of responses to the militarization of engineering
from those who seek to unsettle the status quo. Only by confronting the ethical  historical 
and political consequences of engineering for warfare  this book argues  can engineering be
sensibly reimagined.

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