Download or read book Engineers Within a Local and Global Society written by Caroline Baillie and published by Morgan & Claypool Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents topics intended to aid the practicing engineer in reflecting on the nature and purpose of their practice within the engineering profession and how that is related to and implicated in social, economic and political issues. This volume includes external relations between engineering, economic systems and social and political practices, as well as power structures and working conditions within an organisation.