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An Assessment of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System An Assessment of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System

An Assessment of the Advanced Weather Interactive Processing System

Operational Test and Evaluation of the First System Build

  • Publisher: National Academies Press
  • ISBN: 9780309059954
  • eISBN Pdf: 9780309370707
  • Place of publication:  United States
  • Year of digital publication: 1985
  • Month: January
  • Pages: 145
  • Language: English
  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • BACKGROUND
  • Historical Development
  • Structural Characteristics
  • Features of the Present Era
  • Supply and Demand
  • OUTLOOK FOR THE FUTURE
  • 1 Introduction
  • Traditional Views of Engineering
  • The Reality: Diversity in a Complex World
  • Significance of Societal Perceptions
  • CALCULATING THE VECTOR OF CHANGE: WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?
  • Birth of the Technological Society: 17901850
  • The Engineering Education System
  • Diversification of the Engineering Disciplines
  • Corporate Technology and the Corporate Engineer: 1880 and After
  • Global Depression, Global War
  • World War II
  • EARLY STRUCTURAL CHARACTERISTICS OF ENGINEERING
  • Undeveloped Societal Demands
  • Infrastructure Development
  • Supportive Societal Environment
  • Adaptability and Responsiveness
  • Diversity
  • POSTWAR CHANGES IN SCOPE
  • Expansion of Government's Role
  • The Information Explosion
  • Global Business, Global Markets
  • IMPACTS ON ENGINEERING
  • Multiplying Specialties/Interdisciplinary Activity
  • The Educational System
  • The Professional Societies
  • Engineer as Corporate Employee
  • Engineer as Government Employee
  • Intensification of Social Issues in Engineering
  • The Societal Demand-Pull Factor
  • Mechanisms for Meeting the Demand
  • Factors Limiting Supply Response
  • Arguments For and Against Specialization
  • Alternative Approaches
  • Potential Impacts on Society
  • Potential Impacts on Engineering Employment
  • Roles and Responsibility for Intervention
  • SOCIETY'S RESPONSIBILITY TO THE ENGINEERING PROFESSION
  • 5 Maintaining Flexibility in an Age of Stress and Rapid Change
  • Does the Supply Meet the Demand?
  • Is the Quality of the "Product" Adequate?
  • Potential Scenarios of the Future
  • Significance of the Scenarios
  • General Stresses
  • RECOMMENDATION
  • RECOMMENDATION
  • RECOMMENDATION
  • RECOMMENDATION
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix
  • Engineering in an Increasingly Complex Society
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • Engineering as a Method for Solving Problems
  • Engineering as a Profession
  • Engineering as Social Practice
  • Science and Engineering
  • Responding to Innovation
  • Institutional Imperatives
  • The Engineer and the Marketplace
  • Educating Engineers
  • Resilience in Times of Crisis
  • Engineering in Society
  • Conclusions
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • Presenters
  • Committee Members
  • Other

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