• humane treatment of workers--production will be more efficient if workers are satisfied
• equal opportunity for everyone
• freedom of speech and opinion
  

What characterized the approach to modernization in the USSR?

• a wider range of people became engineers, including worker and women (who were almost 60% of Soviet engineers)
  
• a love of gigantic projects
• no room for asking questions
  
• uniform goods, lack of choice
• large collective farms that would make the best use of technology
• the passivity of engineers

Technocracy: engineers and experts make government decisions
in the USSR many

but engineers were not educated in ethics, social issues, political economy (economics from a government perspective)
why was Soviet engineering education so narrow?

• they didn't want engineers to ask questions
• they trained lots of engineers, had enough people to be specialized
• they were in a hurry, narrow training produced engineers who could help industrialize most quickly
• narrow technical information seemed most important
• many people they trained were workers with limited education--narrow education was the fastest way to train them
  

engineers today at Clemson

• engineering courses cover broader issues
  
• ethics is stressed in courses
• environmental issues are discussed
• general education courses are supposed to give you that broader perspective
• education is increasing focused on teaching skills you will need on the job