Appropriate Technology and Humanitarian Engineering as General Theoretical Frameworks

URL/Ref: Chapter 10 from Willoughby, Technology Choice: A Critique of the Appropriate Technology Movement, Westview Press, 1990 (link requires access to Biblioteca General).

Please read the study guide as you read the article and watch this video that will serve as an initial example for discussion of the framework.

URL/Ref: Chapter 3 from Mitcham and Muñoz, Humanitarian Engineering, Morgan & Claypool, 2010 (link requires access to Biblioteca General).

Study Questions:

1. How do Mitcham and Muñoz distinguish science from engineering?  Does this relate to any themes from the previous tow readings?
2. What are the origins of the profession of engineering?
3. How do Mitcham and Muñoz segue into the topic of engineering ethics?
4. How do Mitcham and Muñoz define humanitarian engineering?  How does this relate to our discussion of "Appropriate Technology"?
5. What was one of the major insights of Fred Cuny?
6. What do Harry Truman's comments about the sharing "technical knowledge" with other "peace-loving peoples" reveal about his attitudes about technology (think about what you read in the previous two readings)?  Do these attitudes views generalize to attitudes embedded in US foreign policy?

Entire book: Mitcham and Muñoz, Humanitarian Engineering, Morgan & Claypool, 2010 (requires access to Biblioteca General).

By Carl Mitcham, 1994.