By Franklin P. Huddle (auth.), V. D. Fréchette, L. D. Pye, J. S. Reed (eds.)
ISBN-10: 1468431498
ISBN-13: 9781468431490
The convention on rising Priorities in Ceramic Engineer ing and technological know-how, held at Alfred collage, November 4-6, 1974, was once prepared to supply a foundation for reassessment targets, systems and outlook. American priorities between convenience, defense, nationwide status, safety, comfort and environmental caliber are considerably assorted from these of a dozen years in the past. monetary components have shifted, as exempli fied by means of scarcities in power, mate rials and international foodstuff provides. even as, calls for for more secure items, more healthy paintings ing stipulations and fairer principles of habit are making them selves felt. Governmental, company and purchaser pursuits are all concerned and they're intricately inte rrelated. larger schooling, for its half, must never purely reply properly to altering scholar angle, itself part of the nationwide scene, yet needs to achieve standpoint towards the current and towards alterations of but unknown nature that are anticipated sooner or later. power and pointed questions from engineers, managers, and scholars have been a sign to us of widely used main issue to appreciate the recent trend of priorities that's shortly rising. according to this desire, convention papers have been invited from exotic engineers, scientists, and different experts; their willingness to give a contribution from their services and their pondering is particularly a lot liked via the editors. the 1st 4 chapters of the quantity take care of the bigger scene and with the viewpoints of these excited by it in behalf of presidency, agencies and the professions.
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THE SOCIAL "ENVIRONMENT" OF THE SCIENTIST-ENGINEER Tomorrow's ceramic engineer and scientist will also be affected by the general attitude of society as well as by the actual physical problems themselves. We are all familiar with some of the extreme positions taken in recent years by those concerned with environmental quality and the consequences of unlimited growth. What is important to us today is not the excesses of the environmental movement but rather the general consensus which is likely to evolve concerning an acceptable balance between growth and the price of growth.
But to do it, we have to recognize and overcome just one more dilemma. We must strike a spark in our people -- in the young technolgists who are going to be needed to solve these problems. For about 30 years, the primary motivation of our most dedicated technolgists has been growth -- the excitement and challenge of creating new products and businesses, exploring new worlds, and accomplishing impossible feats. The "Achieving Society" it has been called. This striving toward growth is very strongly ingrained in us.
That is why priority setting can be a traumatic process, particularly for those aboard the golden-hued oxes that get gored. But think of the inflexibility and the folly of a national budget system that could not cutoff a program, just because it was a good program! " We might briefly mention a few such trends pertinent to this conference. Federal sponsorship of research and development (R and D) is an interesting item. About 10 years ago Rand D sponsored in the federal budget totalled some 13-14 billion dollars, and represented about 12% of the total Federal outlay.