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Published by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Language: English
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6.933J / STS.420J provides an integrated approach to engineering practice in the real world. Students of 6.933J / STS.420J research the life cycle of a major engineering project, new technology, or startup company from multiple perspectives: technical, economic, political, and cultural. Research involves interviewing inventors, reading labo
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- electrical engineering and computer science
- engineering revolution
- engineering
- history
- engineering artifacts
- interdisciplinary
- invention
- patents
- integrated approach
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This course examines the history of MIT through the lens of the broader history of science and technology, and vice versa. The course covers the founding of MIT in 1861 and goes through the present, including such topics as William Barton Rogers, educational philosophy, biographies of MIT students and professors, intellectual and organizati
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- science technology and society
- history of mit
- history of technology
- history of higher education
- history
- mit
- boston
- cambridge
- mit 150
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This course is an introduction to the consideration of technology as the outcome of particular technical, historical, cultural, and political efforts, especially in the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries. Topics include industrialization of production and consumption, development of engineering professions, the emergence of ma
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- science technology and society
- geography
- systems
- manufacturing
- communication
- management
- industry
- industrial
- nature
- electrification
- mass production
- industrialization
- war
- military
- bell system
- nuclear
- cybernetics
- flight
- wright brothers
- aerospace
- gender
- airline
- reproduction
- computing
- internet
- computer
- electronics
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This course is a graduate reading seminar, in which historical and contemporary studies are used to explore the interaction of technology with social and political values. Emphasis is on how technological devices, structures, and systems influence the organization of society and the behavior of its members. Examples are drawn from the techn
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- science technology and society
- design
- planning
- history
- american history
- electrification
- aviation
- taylorism
- war
- military history
- fire prevention
- risk
- development
- business
- civilization
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This course is a detailed technical and historical exploration of the Apollo project to "fly humans to the moon and return them safely to earth" as an example of a complex engineering system. Emphasis is on how the systems worked, the technical and social processes that produced them, mission operations, and historical significance. Guest l
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- science technology and society
- space exploration
- lunar landing
- lunar module
- lm
- lem
- astronauts
- apollo program
- space program
- soviets
- soviet space program
- 1960s politics
- kennedy
- nasa
- space craft design
- man on the moon
- lunar science
- space science
- mission to mars
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