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Sam Florman is a writer as a well as a practicing engineer and vice president of Kreisler Borg Florman Construction Company in Scarsdale, New York. Florman was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1995. His more than 100 articles dealing with the relationship of technology to general culture have appeared in professional journals and popular magazines. Florman, born in New York in 1925, is a fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He holds a bachelor's degree and a civil engineer's degree from Dartmouth College and an M.A. in English literature from Columbia University. |
Links:"Ethics, Professionalism, and the Pleasures of Engineering," an interview with Samuel C. Florman, IEEE Technology & Society Magazine (March 23, 2000).
Discussion of Florman's ideas on "deep ecology" list-serve stimulated by a Jon Katz article on Hotwired (included in this posting).
Florman's listing in the member directory of the National Academy of Engineering.
Review of The Existential Pleasures of Engineering by Michael Moser (self-described computer nut).
"Engineers Need the Liberal Arts," by Samuel C. Florman, The Scientist (November 30, 1987). Free registration required to view the page.
Samuel C. Florman, "Hard-Hatted Women," review of Susan Eisenberg, We'll Call You if We Need You: Experiences of Women Working Construction and Pioneering: Poems from the Construction Site, The New York Times Book Review (April 26, 1998).
Updated December 30, 2002