Sentence examples for cultures of engineering from inspiring English sources

► In a Focus piece in this week's STM, a group of authors from the University of California, San Diego; the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Georgia Institute of Technology; and the National Institutes of Health, makes the case that medical care should be improved by "accelerat[ing] the cross-fertilization of the cultures of engineering and medicine" and offer three recommendations.

Moreover, the masculine culture of engineering remains despite the increasing number of women in engineering, because female engineers assimilate to gendered organizational culture reinforcing the masculine image of the engineering profession (Powell et al. 2006).

But medical doctors play a poor second fiddle to what is overwhelmingly a culture of engineering – and with good reason.

In contrast, Germany has a culture of engineering and Japan of artisanship and quality that embrace histories of production innovation and manufacturing success.

Longtime auto analyst John Casesa, who now runs a consulting company, says, "There's not a company on earth that better understands the culture of engineering".

Intercultural understanding can be taught and it needs to be integrated in the technical and professional culture of engineering.

Rather, contemporary work environments revolve around the management of complex information streams aligned with complex problem-solving tasks that require expertise across multiple cultures of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) learning.

Furthermore there is widespread admiration for the 'elegance and playfulness of the programming of the hacker culture of software engineering' (Brent 2004: 1213 1214).

In line with this, studies on the organizational culture of the engineering sector have shown that the gendering process starts within the educational institutions where "the culture and structure of the engineering education system has been designed for a male audience" (Powell et al. 2004, p. 21).

The CMM model provides organizations with guidance on how they can gain control of processes and evolve through a number of incremental stages toward a culture of software engineering and management excellence.

This paper presents a didactic activity belonging to a long-term project, aimed at complementing the culture of computer engineering students with a solid knowledge of systems and control theory and methods.