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== Preface == | == Preface == | ||
The Engineer in History (HPS283) is a humanities elective offered by [[The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST)]] at [[University of Toronto]]. This course presents an extended personal argument that engineers in the modern world are the most important social category of the modern world in ways that go well beyond the fact that they make things and solve technical puzzles. A look at the history of the profession is used to support this argument. Examining the role engineers have played in history up to and including the present will illuminate the complex links that exist between technology and society. Topics that are discussed includes the birth of engineering as a profession, conceptions of society that have been moulded or influenced by engineers, the image that society has had of them, and their place in the social structure. | The Engineer in History (HPS283) is a humanities elective offered by [[The Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology (IHPST)]] at [[University of Toronto]]. This course presents an extended personal argument that engineers in the modern world are the most important social category of the modern world in ways that go well beyond the fact that they make things and solve technical puzzles. A look at the history of the profession is used to support this argument. Examining the role engineers have played in history up to and including the present will illuminate the complex links that exist between technology and society. Topics that are discussed includes the birth of engineering as a profession, conceptions of society that have been moulded or influenced by engineers, the image that society has had of them, and their place in the social structure. | ||
The contents presented are delivered verbally by Mr. [http://www.hps.utoronto.ca/people/langins.htm Janis Langins], on his last year as professor before his retirement. He is also the author of [https://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/janis-langins ''Conserving the Enlightenment, French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution''] published by MIT Press. | The contents presented are delivered verbally by Mr. [http://www.hps.utoronto.ca/people/langins.htm Janis Langins], on his last year as professor before his retirement. He is also the author of [https://mitpress.mit.edu/authors/janis-langins ''Conserving the Enlightenment, French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution''] published by MIT Press. | ||
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==ERTW, an Opinion== | ==ERTW, an Opinion== | ||