Enabling American Innovation: Engineering and the National Science Foundation

by Dian Olson Belanger

Engineering and science are often spoken of in the same breath, as almost interchangeable parts of a great national striving for technical excellence, achievement, and prestige. But science and engineering also live in a sort of antithetical intellectual rival, often argued in value-laden expressions of pure versus applied science. Enabling American Innovation traces engineers' struggle to win intellectual, financial, and organizational recognition...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1557531110
• ISBN13: 9781557531117
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Purdue University Press
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 6 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 3