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Engineering design is a purposeful activity directed toward the goal of fulfilling human needs, particularly those which can be met by the technological factors of our culture. The satisfaction of these needs is not peculiar to engineering design; it is common to much of human activity. Earning a living by serving the requirements of others is one of the chief characteristics of the modern social environment.
First published in Introduction to Design, Englewood Cliffs, Prentice-Hall, 1962, Chapter I (=pp. 1–6).
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The notions of factual and ethical contents of statements are set forth lucidly in Chapter III, ‘Fact and Value in Decision Making’, of Herbert A. Simon’s Administrative Behavior, The Macmillan Company, New York, 1958.
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Asimov, M. (1962). A Philosophy of Engineering Design. In: Rapp, F. (eds) Contributions to a Philosophy of Technology. Theory and Decision Library, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2182-1_14
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