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Engineering Peace and Justice
P. Aarne Vesilind
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Description for Engineering Peace and Justice
Paperback. "Peace engineering" is the pro-active use of engineering skills in the promotion of peace. This book details the history of the profession and shows how engineers have, in the past, served their clients as either military or civilian engineers. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HP; JNRV; TN. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 10. Weight in Grams: 279.
Some years ago when I was chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering, a colleague introduced me to a visitor from Sandia Laboratories, perhaps the largest developer of armaments and weapons systems in the world. We had a nice visit, and as we chatted, the talk naturally centered on the visitor’s engineering work. It turned out that his job in recent years had been to develop a new acoustic triggering device for bombs. As he explained it, the problem with bombs was that the plunger triggering mechanism could fail if the bomb hit at an angle, and thus ... Read more
Some years ago when I was chair of the department of civil and environmental engineering, a colleague introduced me to a visitor from Sandia Laboratories, perhaps the largest developer of armaments and weapons systems in the world. We had a nice visit, and as we chatted, the talk naturally centered on the visitor’s engineering work. It turned out that his job in recent years had been to develop a new acoustic triggering device for bombs. As he explained it, the problem with bombs was that the plunger triggering mechanism could fail if the bomb hit at an angle, and thus ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
175
Condition
New
Number of Pages
167
Place of Publication
England, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781447158226
SKU
V9781447158226
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Ref
99-15
About P. Aarne Vesilind
Aarne Vesilind worked in engineering education for about 35 years, teaching environmental engineering and professional ethics first at Duke University and then at Bucknell University, where he held a chaired professorship and organized a successful conference on peace engineering.
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