First professional engineering society in America. Founded in 1852. Reorganized in 1869.

Engineer at Morton-Thiokol who warned of defects in the Challenger's booster rockets..

How well the technology fits into the culture of a receiving country. Bad cultural fit is often the source of transfer failure.

Belief that the role of the engineer is to do projects defined by the advancing culture. Popular in Nazi Germany.

Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company. Founded by Charles Kettering. Absorbed into General Motors in 1918.

Made up of all the individuals and institutions who exert some influence on the decisions which cause a successful technology to take the shape it does.

First stage in a successful technology's development. When the technology is fragile, flexible, and open to change. Stage when context will dramatically influence the technology.

Second stage of Hughes Model. Testing the solution in increasingly complex environments.

Being capable of letting people who are not like you to actually change your thinking so that your interactions with them make you see the world differently.

A body of knowledge using controlled-variable experimental methods to construct a formal and mathematically structured system. It studies the behavioral characteristics of some class of artifact or artifact-related materials.