In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 366 Books-Liiires developments in science and technology. He is curious about not only new materials and devices but also about the inventive processes employed in their development and the impact these materials and devices have on human existence. While Education for Innovation and Engineering: Its Role and Function in Human Society do bear on these two latter questions, the first book is directed primarily toward important changes required in engineering education in American universities and the second toward necessary change in liberal arts education with respect to technology. In 1966, a conference was held at Woods Hole, Mass.
‘toexamine the creative processes of invention and innovation, the opportunities for encouraging creative activities in the engineering schools, and the possibilities for developing and supporting creative engineering education’. The fourteen chapters of Education for Innovation are based on the presentations at that conference.
Some of the very crucial problems that challenge creative engineering are traffic safety, vehicle design. Air and water pollution and city planning. Clearly the engineer must be able both to comprehend the needs of society and to invent solutions. Because engineering education and research have recently been so science oriented. Graduates are being ill-prepared to meet the challenge.
In discussing present-day conditions in the engineering profession, one participant of the conference pointed to the many threats to creativity. For example, there are threats of a psychological nature such as a lone-wolf attitude (too much secrecy), a predisposition toward conformity, frustration owing to external constraints and the fear of failure, ridicule and disapproval. Then there are social and economic threats which include the need to obtain patent protection (often costly), the need to protect trade secrets and the hard evaluation of ideas in terms of profitability. Another participant discussed at length the process of invention. He stressed the importance of timing. The successful inventor recognizes a need before society does. But he is careful not to bring it forth too early when it is not wanted.
While a rational approach frequently leads to inventions, the more remarkable inventions (the ‘flash of genius’ type) are almost always a product of the random approach. But sheer random drifting may not be sufficient. Invention frequently requires the combination of two or more ideas. It is believed that highly creative persons possess a superior capacity for associating ideas. Clearly this holds true in music composition, poetry writing and other artistic expression. To develop creativity in engineering students, the first step will be to provide a portion of the teaching staff who are creative and can teach creativity. Courses oriented toward creativity will require different teaching methods employing, for example, case studies (as in law and medicine), case histories, student projects and laboratory internships.
The traditional engineering grading system is alien to creativity, because students are encouraged to memorize and to reproduce. It may often be found that students performing weakly in traditional programs will excel in creativity-oriented programs. In implementing this approach it was felt that a genuine acceptance must be encouraged among engineering students. This can be done in various ways, e.g. By the recognition of individual student talent by the establishment of better communication among engineering schools and by publicity lauding creative engineering. Engineering: Its Role and Function in Human Society is an anthology of 38 readings compiled by a humanist and an engineer. It presents various views and attitudes toward technology and raises questions about the future.
The book is intended for use in a conceptually sophisticated course introducing engineering as an important element of modern life to non-engineering students. The scope of the book is suggested by the titles of its four parts: ‘The Viewpoint of the Humanist’, ‘Attitudes of the Engineer’, ‘Men and Machine’ and ‘Technology and the Future’. The volume opens with excerpts from John Henry Newman’s discourse (1852) ‘Liberal Knowledge to Its Own End’, which has had a great influence on education to the present day. Newman’s conception of liberal education for the cultivated man excludes science and technology.
Change is now apparent. Rabi (1956) stated that the scientist and the humanist must interact to achieve new vigor in wisdom.
Aldous Huxley (I 963) specified that. If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'. You are not currently authenticated. View freely available titles: OR.
Absolutely essential for any contemporary discourse on Surrealism! Nadeau's now-classic study champions the often repressed reminder that Surrealism was neither an aesthetic school nor a style of art but a political approach to culture and society.
Written in a period when Surrealism still seemed touchable, if dead, but not 'failed,' Nadeau's study offers much to contextualize and also, strangely, humanize the many figures whose work and words constitute the body of the European Surrealist tradi Absolutely essential for any contemporary discourse on Surrealism! Nadeau's now-classic study champions the often repressed reminder that Surrealism was neither an aesthetic school nor a style of art but a political approach to culture and society. Written in a period when Surrealism still seemed touchable, if dead, but not 'failed,' Nadeau's study offers much to contextualize and also, strangely, humanize the many figures whose work and words constitute the body of the European Surrealist tradition. The timing comes with caveats: Nadeau's championship of the movement neglects to critically evaluate concerns that modern readers rightfully demand: gender and sex are severely undertheorized, for example. But Nadeau is very tough on the Surrealists in the categories which they themselves articulated as their concerns, which is an incredibly important and today often ignored critical role. You could say that he keeps them honest to their claims, if those words didn't constitute a horrifically bourgeois morality that all would disavow. Instead, let's say that he looks for patterns of consistency and change in order to match behaviour against manifesto.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in Surrealism OR the political exchange of art and society in European radical traditions. The best historical introduction in the movement of Surrealism. Follows closely its evolution, the relation between its members, the ideological changes through the years, the dialectic developed in relation to society. Gives special emphasis to the outstanding surrealists, without neglecting the contribution of the less known among them.
The surrealistic revolution was not, as it is well known, only a revolution in Art, but in life as well. Art and life, connected, each influences the other.
Am The best historical introduction in the movement of Surrealism. Follows closely its evolution, the relation between its members, the ideological changes through the years, the dialectic developed in relation to society. Gives special emphasis to the outstanding surrealists, without neglecting the contribution of the less known among them. The surrealistic revolution was not, as it is well known, only a revolution in Art, but in life as well.
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Art and life, connected, each influences the other. Amour fout, objective chance, black humor, ecriture automatique are main aspects and dynamics of the movement. The desire, according to Nadeau, is finaly the most powerful motive in life; the objectification of which must be our main task.
'I believe,' Andr Breton said, 'in the future resolution of the states of dream and reality-in appearance so contradictory-in a sort of absolute reality, or surralit.' The Surrealist movement, born in the 1920s out of the ferment of Dada, committed to revolution against bourgeois rationalism, and inspired by Freudian exploration of the unconscious, has reverberated more widely and deeply than perhaps any other art movement in our century. Its automatism, biomorphic shapes, visionary mode, and manipulation of found objects mark the work of artists as different as Ernst, Mir, Magritte, and Dali. Maurice Nadeau's History of Surrealism, first published in French in 1944 and in English in 1965, has become a classic.
It is both lucid and authoritative-by far the best overall account of this complex movement. Nadeau traces the evolution of Surrealism, bringing to life its many internal debates about politics and art. He relates the movement to its intellectual and artistic environment. And he provides the statements and manifestos of Breton, Aragon, Tzara, and others.
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In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 366 Books-Liiires developments in science and technology. He is curious about not only new materials and devices but also about the inventive processes employed in their development and the impact these materials and devices have on human existence.
While Education for Innovation and Engineering: Its Role and Function in Human Society do bear on these two latter questions, the first book is directed primarily toward important changes required in engineering education in American universities and the second toward necessary change in liberal arts education with respect to technology. In 1966, a conference was held at Woods Hole, Mass. ‘toexamine the creative processes of invention and innovation, the opportunities for encouraging creative activities in the engineering schools, and the possibilities for developing and supporting creative engineering education’.
The fourteen chapters of Education for Innovation are based on the presentations at that conference. Some of the very crucial problems that challenge creative engineering are traffic safety, vehicle design.
Air and water pollution and city planning. Clearly the engineer must be able both to comprehend the needs of society and to invent solutions. Because engineering education and research have recently been so science oriented.
Graduates are being ill-prepared to meet the challenge. In discussing present-day conditions in the engineering profession, one participant of the conference pointed to the many threats to creativity. For example, there are threats of a psychological nature such as a lone-wolf attitude (too much secrecy), a predisposition toward conformity, frustration owing to external constraints and the fear of failure, ridicule and disapproval. Then there are social and economic threats which include the need to obtain patent protection (often costly), the need to protect trade secrets and the hard evaluation of ideas in terms of profitability. Another participant discussed at length the process of invention.
He stressed the importance of timing. The successful inventor recognizes a need before society does. But he is careful not to bring it forth too early when it is not wanted. While a rational approach frequently leads to inventions, the more remarkable inventions (the ‘flash of genius’ type) are almost always a product of the random approach.
But sheer random drifting may not be sufficient. Invention frequently requires the combination of two or more ideas. It is believed that highly creative persons possess a superior capacity for associating ideas. Clearly this holds true in music composition, poetry writing and other artistic expression. To develop creativity in engineering students, the first step will be to provide a portion of the teaching staff who are creative and can teach creativity.
Courses oriented toward creativity will require different teaching methods employing, for example, case studies (as in law and medicine), case histories, student projects and laboratory internships. The traditional engineering grading system is alien to creativity, because students are encouraged to memorize and to reproduce.
It may often be found that students performing weakly in traditional programs will excel in creativity-oriented programs. In implementing this approach it was felt that a genuine acceptance must be encouraged among engineering students. This can be done in various ways, e.g. By the recognition of individual student talent by the establishment of better communication among engineering schools and by publicity lauding creative engineering.
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Engineering: Its Role and Function in Human Society is an anthology of 38 readings compiled by a humanist and an engineer. It presents various views and attitudes toward technology and raises questions about the future. The book is intended for use in a conceptually sophisticated course introducing engineering as an important element of modern life to non-engineering students. The scope of the book is suggested by the titles of its four parts: ‘The Viewpoint of the Humanist’, ‘Attitudes of the Engineer’, ‘Men and Machine’ and ‘Technology and the Future’. The volume opens with excerpts from John Henry Newman’s discourse (1852) ‘Liberal Knowledge to Its Own End’, which has had a great influence on education to the present day. Newman’s conception of liberal education for the cultivated man excludes science and technology. Change is now apparent.
Rabi (1956) stated that the scientist and the humanist must interact to achieve new vigor in wisdom. Aldous Huxley (I 963) specified that. If you would like to authenticate using a different subscribed institution that supports Shibboleth authentication or have your own login and password to Project MUSE, click 'Authenticate'. You are not currently authenticated. View freely available titles: OR.
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