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This paper is concerned with questions of creativity, tacit knowledge and developments in engineering. However important its scientific basis may be, engineering is an art. Its true development can flourish only near the point of application. Advances in engineering are not made in scholarly papers but by those practitioners who are immersed in complex day-to-day problems of engineering practice.
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Rosenbrock, H.H. (1990). Engineering as an Art. In: Göranzon, B., Florin, M. (eds) Artifical Intelligence, Culture and Language: On Education and Work. The Springer Series on Artificial Intelligence and Society. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1729-2_12
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