Overview
Enabling American Innovation traces engineers' struggle to win intellectual, financial, and organizational recognition within the National Science Foundation. 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.Synopsis
Enabling American Innovation traces engineers' struggle to win intellectual, financial, and organizational recognition within the National Science Foundation. 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.
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A history of the place of engineering in the National Science Foundation. Of interest to historians and policy makers, this study traces engineers' struggle for recognition and equal standing with scientists in the NSF, since its inception in 1950 to the present. The author draws on NSF archival material, Congressional proceedings, speeches by Foundation leaders, and numerous books. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.