Control-Volume Analysis

A Difference in Thinking between Engineering and Physics

Bibliographic Data

ID4835629
AuthorsWalter G Vincenti (corresponding author)
Year1982
Volume23
Issue2
Pages145
Publication date1982-04-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueTechnology and Culture (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0040-165X • E-ISSN: 1097-3729
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/3104129
OpenAlexW2080548607
LanguageEN
Citations received9

The statement is sometimes made, usually in the abstract, that engineers think about their problems differently from scientists. This paper identifies a specific instance of that difference, traces its history, and analyzes the reasons behind it. I shall argue that the difference flows in the present case primarily from a combination of differences in the physical problems and economic constraints of science and engineering. The findings say something about engineering science in relation to science, about the sense in which engineering knowledge is cumulative, and about the importance of ways of thinking in engineering.1 A basic determinative throughout is the fundamental dif

Control (management) · Control volume · Determinative · Engineering ethics · Epistemology · Mathematics education · Mechanics · Physical science · Physics · Political science · Relation (database) · Science and engineering · Statement (logic) · Thermodynamics · Volume (thermodynamics) · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Engineering · Engineering Education and Pedagogy · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Research, Science, and Academia

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