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List of Figures | p. ix |
Introduction | p. 1 |
The Engineering Profession | p. 1 |
State of the Earth | p. 3 |
State of the Poor | p. 7 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 12 |
Planet Earth | p. 15 |
Introduction | p. 15 |
The Arctic | p. 19 |
Case Study: Polar Bears | p. 23 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 27 |
Poverty | p. 29 |
Introduction | p. 29 |
A Quantitative Measure for Relative Prosperity and Poverty | p. 31 |
Poverty in the United States | p. 36 |
The Visible Poor | p. 36 |
The Invisible Poor | p. 38 |
Case Study: New Orleans and Hurricane Katrina | p. 40 |
Introduction | p. 40 |
The Unfolding Events | p. 40 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 46 |
Emerging Ideas in Engineering | p. 49 |
Introduction | p. 49 |
New Ideas | p. 49 |
Codes of Conduct | p. 49 |
New Organizations | p. 53 |
New Pedagogies | p. 54 |
Service Learning | p. 54 |
Concluding Remarks | p. 55 |
A New Paradigm for Engineering | p. 57 |
Introduction | p. 57 |
Engineering for a Global Community | p. 58 |
A Communion of Subjects | p. 59 |
Implications for Engineering | p. 62 |
Final Thoughts | p. 65 |
References | p. 69 |
Author Biography | p. 73 |
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