Philosophy of Engineering, East and West by Carl Mitcham Bocong LI Byron Newberry & Baichun ZHANG

Author:Carl Mitcham, Bocong LI, Byron Newberry & Baichun ZHANG
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Van Aken’s stand on the three certainties is not a rupture. He qualifies the first, (1) that engineering is applied science, saying “I prefer to avoid the term ‘applied sciences’, as this term suggests that the mission of these sciences is merely to apply the basic laws of the explanatory sciences”. He praises the “impressive body of knowledge developed by the design sciences themselves” (both passages, van Aken 2004, p. 225). For him, the design sciences, engineering included, are not merely a non-scientific application of explanatory sciences; there is science in design, with its own theoretical-explanatory- designerly corpus. Van Aken argues that medicine, management, and engineering are design sciences, and hence, implicitly agrees with proposition (2), that engineering is a science of the artificial under his reformed formulation. As for the advancement of engineering and of all design disciplines, van Aken clearly supports that it is embedded in (3) the advancement of explanatory and design sciences by grounding and field- testing design propositions.

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