An Engineered World Roundtable: The Role of Engineers in Global Modernity

A book launch organized by Professor Mikael Wolfe, featuring Co-Editors Edward Beatty, (Professor of History and Global Affairs, U. of Norte Dame), and Israel Solares, (Inst. for resarch and Applied Mathematics, UNAM). An Engineered World examines the dramatic and global expansion of modern professional engineering between 1870 and 1950. Over these decades, the number of people who called themselves “engineers" (or were recognized as such by others) expanded from a small and eclectic number of individuals to one of the most numerous, mobile, and influential professional groups in the 20th century. Tens of thousands of university-trained engineers, and other professionalized technical experts – a few famous, but most anonymous – became critical to the technological, organizational, and political development of global capitalism and socialism.

This collection edited by Edward Beatty and Israel Solares presents eight case studies of engineers' work and interactions situated in local, national, regional places, but always intersecting with global influences.