Engineering and Society

Stephen Johnston is Associate Professor and former head of the School of Mechanical Engineering in the faculty of Engineering at University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). He is a consultant who works in the area of engineering design and design review in the manufacturing and mining industries. In 1998, he was invited to Chair the UTS Sustainability Task Force. In 1997 he was a visiting fellow in the Science, Technology and Society (STS) Program at Stanford University. Paul Gostelow is Professor of Engineering in Thermofluids at Leicester University, England.  His specialist area is fluid mechanics and turbomachinary, in which he has over 100 publications. He has divided his career between academia and industry. He was a Senior Engineer with General Electric in the US. Evan Jones is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Sydney, where he teaches and researches in political economy. He is currently researching in the area of the politics of industry making policy for the Australian manufacturing sector. He has a Ph.D. from Michigan State and an honors degree in commerce from Melbourne University.

• ForewordThe AuthorsAcknowledgments 1.       Engineering and History 2.       Engineering in the Modern Era 3.       Engineering and Australian History 4.       Sociological Insights 5.       Politics, Power and the State 6.       A Perspective on Economics 7.       Innovation 8.       Management in Engineering 9.       Development and Technology Transfer 10.    Energy and Sustainability 11.    Towards and Philosophy of Engineering 12.    Ethics and Professionalism Index