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Enabling American innovation : engineering and the National Science Foundation
- Title
- Enabling American innovation : engineering and the National Science Foundation / Dian Olson Belanger.
- Author
- Belanger, Dian Olson, 1941-
- Publication
- West Lafayette, Ind. : Purdue University Press, [1998], ©1998.
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- Description
- xiii, 375 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "This study traces engineers' struggle to win intellectual, financial, and organizational recognition within the National Science Foundation (NSF), a federal agency formed in 1950 to support basic scientific research. The tools and arguments of this struggle altered over time, but engineers continued to assert the value of their contribution, usually measured in comparative budgetary terms, and philosophical debates, as they were played out through organizational manipulation. By the 1980s, NSF leaders agreed that engineering and science should enjoy an equal and mutually beneficial relationship within the NSF."--BOOK JACKET.
- Series Statement
- History of technology series
- Uniform Title
- History of technology series (West Lafayette, Ind.)
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-330) and index.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Also issued online.
- Contents
- Prologue: Engineering: An American Tradition -- Ch. 1. Engineering under a Mandate for Basic Science -- Ch. 2. Toward a Larger Role -- Ch. 3. Applied Science and Relevance: The RANN Concept -- Ch. 4. The RANN Years - Fruitful, Beset, and Brief -- Ch. 5. Interregnum: Searching for a Place -- Ch. 6. By Any Name, Engineering -- Ch. 7. Resources and Policies for Full Partnership -- Ch. 8. Acting on the Mandate -- Ch. 9. NSF Engineering over Time -- App. 1. National Science Foundation Directors, 1951-90 -- App. 2. National Science Foundation Heads of Engineering in Varying Organizational Configurations, 1951-90 -- App. 3. Engineering Research Centers, to 1990 -- App. 4. Engineers Serving on the National Science Board, 1951-90 -- App. 5. Statistical Figures, NSF Spending.
- ISBN
- 1557531110 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9781557531117 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 97028311
- OCLC
- ocm37246443
- 37246443
- SCSB-5485534
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries