| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: monographic
|
| Title Information: |
an introduction topost-disaster engineeringand ethics |
| Author: |
PfatteicherSarah K. A., 1968- |
| Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: |
Project Muse |
| Place of Publication: |
Baltimore, Md. |
| Published: |
Johns Hopkins University Press; |
| Year of Publication: |
2010 |
| Description: |
1 online resource (186 p.)ill. : |
| Series: |
Johns Hopkins introductory studies in the history of technology |
| Subject: |
Disaster relief - |
| Subject: |
Structural engineering - |
| Subject: |
Disasters - Research - |
| Subject: |
Structural failures - |
| Online resource: |
http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780801899508/ |
| Notes: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-175) and index |
| ISBN: |
9780801899508electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
0801899508electronic bk. |
| ISBN: |
9780801897191hbk. |
| ISBN: |
080189719Xhbk. |
| ISBN: |
9780801897207pbk. |
| ISBN: |
0801897203pbk. |
| Content Note: |
"A very imperfect process" : engineering problem-solving 101 -- "Finding hope in the ruins" :a short history of engineering disasters -- "A new era" : the limits of engineering expertise in a post-9/11 world -- "Safe from every possible event" : how to strive for the impossible -- "Architectural terrorism" : why moderation matters -- "These materialthings" : passion and power in engineering -- Conclusion, "More time for the dreaming" : engineering curricula for the twenty-first century |