Jose Figueiredo & James Trevelyan 
Engineering Practice in a Global Context [PDF ebook] 
Understanding the Technical and the Social

This volume aims to provide the reader with a broad cross-section of empirical research being carried out into engineers at work. The chapters provide pointers to other relevant studies over recent decades , an important aspect, we believe, because this area has only recently begun to coalesce as a field of study and up to now relevant empirical re