Program

Research Programs: Humanities, Science, and Technology

Period of Performance

10/1/1981 - 1/31/1983

Funding Totals

$21,259.00 (approved)
$21,259.00 (awarded)


Values in Engineering Design

FAIN: RH-20053-82

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA 02139-4307)
Louis L. Bucciarelli (Project Director: June 1981 to October 1990)

To support a study of the engineering design and development process to determine how values and cultural concerns -- aesthetic, ethical, political, and intellectual -- affect the forms of technology that emerge.