Engineering a Better Future: Interplay between Engineering, Social Sciences, and Innovation

Part I: Engineering Education and social sciences.- Evolving from Single Disciplines to Renaissance Teams.- Knowledge, Skill, and Wisdom: Reflections on Integrating the Social Sciences and Engineering.- Innovations in Energy-Climate Education: Integrating Engineering & Social Sciences.- Reconnecting Engineering with the Social and Political Sphere.- Technology, Policy and Management: co-evolving or converging?.- Ecole des Mines de Paris: a few lessons from a long history.- Part II: Engineering and Social Sciences.- The Cult of Innovation: Its Myths and Rituals.- Does Law Wear out?.- Engineering and Society.- Dealing with the future: General considerations and the case of "mobility".- Designing the future we want.- A Generative Perspective on Engineering: why the destructive force of artifacts is immune to politics.- Part III: Study of science and engineering practice.- The Art of Science practice.- Do the best design ideas (really) come from conceptually distant sources of inspiration?.- Caring for nanotechnology? Being an integrated social scientist.