Uni Stu 3 Essays in Engineering, Science, and Technology
Winter 2005 [Course Code: 87562]
Instructor: Professor MG McNally <mmcnally@uci.edu>
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Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering • University of California Irvine Uni Stu 3 Essays in Engineering, Science, and Technology Winter 2005 [Course Code: 87562] Instructor: Professor MG McNally <mmcnally@uci.edu> |
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| This Week: March 15th |
We'll discuss Hofstadter's four-part fugue Prelude ... Ant Fugue and use this as a basis to re-visit other essays that we've read. I'll provide a few more essays by Samuel Florman (on his existential relationship with engineering and the liberal arts) and by Carl Sagan (on "billions and billions" of reasons to keep up what you started). |
| US 3: Essays in Engineering, Science, and Technology |
The paradox of the essay is that intimate and accurate detail of a subject from a defined and personal point of view can lead to interpretations and generalizations of very broad scope. And all in typically very few words. The essay may well be the ideal symbiotic mechanism by which engineers, scientists, and technologists can broach subjects with broad non-technical ramifications from the relative safety of facts and figures of the technical world. As a plus, such an essay is typically a technical delight in itself. In this seminar we will read and discuss essays on a variety of topics directly relevant to engineering, science, and technology, and indirectly relevant to just about everything... |
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