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boisjoly
Engineer at Morton-Thiokol who warned of defects in the Challenger's booster rockets..
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cultural fit
How well the technology fits into the culture of a receiving country. Bad cultural fit is often the source of transfer failure.
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culture-determined technology
Belief that the role of the engineer is to do projects defined by the advancing culture. Popular in Nazi Germany.
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delco
Dayton Engineering Laboratories Company. Founded by Charles Kettering. Absorbed into General Motors in 1918.
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design constituency
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.
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design stage
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.
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development
Second stage of Hughes Model. Testing the solution in increasingly complex environments.
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educable engineer
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.
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engineering theory
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.
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