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The workshop on style and form going under the title of "las buenas formas" that took place this Spring under the auspices of INTIC (ICT Integration) with the collaboration of the Madrid Residencia de Estudiantes served as an introduction to the artistic trends currently encountered in our professional environment and related spheres. The series of conferences and round tables provided first hand accounts not only by renowned engineers with artistic leanings, but also by other professionals from the world of Fine Arts who fully appreciate these styles and forms. This article comments on this particular subject and forwards the place for good form or aesthetic appreciation in engineering work, particularly when attempting to argue in favour of its own formal value and one, in this respect, different from that of the other constructive arts. This serves as the setting in which to present some of the findings of the workshop on "Las buenas formas" that took place between April and June this year. The workshop included interventions by Julio Martínez Calzón, José Serna, Carlos Castañón, Jorge Bernabeu, Miguel Agulló and Fernando de Terán, all of whom being sufficiently renowned and esteemed professionals in this country to do away with any further presentation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

I substantiate the argument that lead me to believe very strongly that we need to find new ways for the arts and sciences to collaborate, and to create a networked culture that brings the arts and humanities into interaction with the sciences and engineering. Our world faces many problems, on all scales, and we must use all the different approaches to create a world culture that is sustainable and respects and nurtures the differing world-views of each community. We have no choice but to forge new art-science collaborations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Careful readers of Wittgenstein tend to overlook the significance his engineering education had for his philosophy; this despite Georg von Wright's stern admonition that 'the two most important facts to remember about Wittgenstein were, firstly, that he was Viennese, and, secondly, that he was an engineer.' Such oversight is particularly tempting for those of us who come to philosophy late, having first been schooled in math and science, because our education tricks us into thinking we understand engineering by extension. But we do not. I will illustrate this common tendency to misread Wittgenstein by examining three engineering concepts that have little significance for science but played important roles in Wittgenstein's philosophical thinking. These are: method of projection, dynamical similarity, and satisfactoriness. The upshot of this analysis will be a strong challenge to the myth of his putative fideism because neither fideism nor its contrary simply would have occurred to Wittgensteinthe-engineer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Engineering practice takes place within the complex social, cultural, legal, economic, technological, and organizational system. Within this context, the engineer is expected not only to solve the technical design problem but also to satisfy broader norms and expectations, which may not be consistent with each other or with the highest standards of design. They also are not always explicitly expressed. These expectations may push the engineer toward unethical or even illegal behavior. The forces or factors in a particular instance include the values held by the engineering profession as a whole, the individual engineer's value set, the values of the employing organization, and attendant socioeconomic pressures. Individual, professional, and organizational values are not static but rather evolving responses to both long-term and short-term environmental forces. Thus, engineering ethics, both on the individual and profession-as-a-whole scale, can usefully be understood and modeled as systems phenomena. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Journal articles constitute the core documents for the diffusion of knowledge in the natural sciences. It has been argued that the same is not true for the social sciences and humanities where knowledge is more often disseminated in monographs that are not indexed in the journal-based databases used for bibliometric analysis. Previous studies have made only partial assessments of the role played by both serials and other types of literature. The importance of journal literature in the various scientific fields has therefore not been systematically characterized. The authors address this issue by providing a systematic measurement of the role played by journal literature in the building of knowledge in both the natural sciences and engineering and the social sciences and humanities. Using citation data from the CD-ROM versions of the Science Citation Index (SCI), Social Science Citation Index (SSCI), and Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) databases from 1981 to 2000 (Thomson ISI, Philadelphia, PA), the authors quantify the share of citations to both serials and other types of literature. Variations in time and between fields are also analyzed. The results show that journal literature is increasingly important in the natural and social sciences, but that its role in the humanities is stagnant and has even tended to diminish slightly in the 1990s. Journal literature accounts for less than 50% of the citations in several disciplines of the social sciences and humanities; hence, special care should be used when using bibliometric indicators that rely only on journal literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on the use of the CONNECT Program at the Engineering School of the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York City, in testing the effectiveness of arts based learning for technical trainees. The underlying concept of CONNECT is that most communication breakdowns involving engineers happen because they focus on the details of their subject matter and expect others to do the same. To give engineering graduates the tools to close the audience gap, CONNECT turns to the theater. It unites the fields of engineering and performance, endorses the need for engineers to master content, and adds training in behaviors necessary to reach an audience.

The article focuses on the relationship between science, engineering and humanity. The author emphasizes that science professionals comprised the primary source of societal prosperity through innovation. He gives a brief assessment of technological advancement which he considers as robot age. The author believes that medical professionals has the obligation to actively foster intercultural contacts in the midst of gaps over societies, cultures, religions and races.

The article offers the authors insights on engineering education and the combination of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). The author states that engineering is different from STM because the first step for the design process is invention and it requires creativity and judgment. He mentions that the U.S. Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology requires the addition of humanities courses in engineering curricula.

The article offers information on the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)-USA Online Engineering Video Scholarship Competition. It states that the competition will present four scholarship awards worth 5, 000 dollars for U.S. engineering undergraduates' students who can create video clips on the contributions of engineers in improving the world. It states that interested students are required to provide profile of an engineer and contribution.