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SEE
2010
Springer
13 years 5 months ago
Engineering Good: How Engineering Metaphors Help us to Understand the Moral Life and Change Society
Engineering can learn from ethics, but ethics can also learn from engineering. In this paper, I discuss what engineering metaphors can teach us about practical philosophy. Using me...
Mark Coeckelbergh
IJAC
2011
13 years 5 months ago
Bringing the Everyday Life into Engineering Education
— To successfully design and engineer solutions for today’s and tomorrow’s rapidly changing and expanding global contexts, in which people are confronted with new opportuniti...
Gert Pasman, Ingrid Mulder
AIEDAM
2010
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13 years 8 months ago
A content account of creative analogies in biologically inspired design
The growing movement of biologically inspired design is driven in part by the need for sustainable development and in part by the recognition that nature could be a source of inno...
Swaroop Vattam, Michael E. Helms, Ashok K. Goel
SIGSOFT
2010
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Software intelligence: the future of mining software engineering data
Mining software engineering data has emerged as a successful research direction over the past decade. In this position paper, we advocate Software Intelligence (SI) as the future ...
Ahmed E. Hassan, Tao Xie
FECS
2010
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A Case Study in the Design of a Restaurant Management System
Teaching software engineering at the undergraduate level is an exciting and challenging undertaking. Students come to software engineering with a variety of technical and sift ski...
Wesley Williams, Devon Simmonds
ANTSW
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Functional Blueprints: An Approach to Modularity in Grown Systems
Abstract. The engineering of grown systems poses fundamentally different system integration challenges than ordinary engineering of static designs. On the one hand, a grown system ...
Jacob Beal
SEE
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
The Social Nature of Engineering and its Implications for Risk Taking
Making decisions with an, often significant, element of risk seems to be an integral part of many of the projects of the diverse profession of engineering. Whether it be decisions...
Allison Ross, Nafsika Athanassoulis
SEE
2010
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Can Instruction in Engineering Ethics Change Students' Feelings about Professional Responsibility?
How can a course on engineering ethics affect an undergraduate student’s feelings of responsibility about moral problems? In this study, three groups of students were interviewed...
Golnaz Hashemian, Michael C. Loui
RCIS
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Evaluating cross-organizational ERP requirements engineering practices: a focus group study
This focus group study presents our first validation of practices for engineering the coordination requirements in cross­ organizational Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) project...
Maya Daneva, Niv Ahituv
JCISE
2002
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Modeling Information Needs in Engineering Databases Using Tacit Knowledge
Online resources of engineering design information are a critical resource for practicing engineers. These online resources often contain references and content associated with te...
Shuang Song, Andy Dong, Alice M. Agogino