In What Engineers Know and How they Know it (1988), Walter Vincenti identifies and develops a theme first introduced by Edwin Layton in his landmark paper 'Technology as Knowledge.' Vincenti provides an account of engineering knowledge from the point of view of a practicing and deeply reflective engineer.
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