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Enabling American Innovation traces engineers struggle to win intellectual, financial, and organizational recognition within the National Science Foundation. The tools and arguments of this struggle altered over time, but engineers continued to assert the value of their contribution, usually measured in comparative budgetary terms, and philosophical debates as they were played out through organizational manipulation.
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Enabling American Innovation : Engineering and the National Science Foundation History of Technology Series (West Lafayette, Ind.)
author
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Belanger, Dian Olson.
publisher
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Purdue University Press
isbn10 | asin
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1557531110
print isbn13
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9781557531117
ebook isbn13
:
9780585087986
language
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English
subject
Engineering--United States--History, National Science Foundation (U.S.)--History, Technology--United States--History.
publication date
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1998
lcc
:
TA23.B45 1998eb
ddc
:
620/.007/2073
subject
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Engineering--United States--History, National Science Foundation (U.S.)--History, Technology--United States--History.
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History of Technology Series
Jane Morley, Series Editor
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Enabling American Innovation
Engineering and the National Science Foundation
Dian Olson Belanger
Purdue University Press West Lafayette, Indiana
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Copyright 1998 by Purdue Research Foundation. All rights reserved.
020100999854321
The paper used in this book meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information SciencesPermanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992.
Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Belanger, Dian Olson, 1941 Enabling American innovation : engineering and the National Science Foundation / Dian Olson Belanger. p. cm.(Purdue University Press history of technology series) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55753-111-0 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. EngineeringUnited StatesHistory. 2. National Science Founda tion (U.S.)History. 3. TechnologyUnited StatesHistory. I. Title. II. Series: History of technology series (West Lafayette, Ind.) TA23.B45 1997
620'.007'2073dc2197-28311 CIP
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Contents
Foreword
ix
Achknowledgements
xi
Prologue Engineering: An American Tradition
1
Chapter 1 Engineering under a Mandate for Basic Science
24
Chapter 2 Toward a Larger Role
52
Chapter 3 Applied Science and Relevance: The RANN Concept
76
Chapter 4 The RANN YearsFruitful, Beset, and Brief
105
Chapter 5 Interregnum: Searchingfor a Place
124
Chapter 6 By Any Name, Engineering
155
Chapter 7 Resources and Policiesfor Full Partnership
177
Chapter 8 Acting on the Mandate
211
Chapter 9 NSF Engineering over Time
250
Appendix 1 National Science Foundation Directors, 1951-90
269
Appendix 2 National Science Foundation Heads of Engineering in Varying Organizational Configurations, 1951-90
271
Appendix 3 Engineering Research Centers, to 1990
273
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Appendix 4 Engineers Serving on the National Science Board, 1951-90
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