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Telehealth in Sub-Saharan Africa
The sudden influx of modern communications in Sub-Saharan Africa has opened up exciting opportunities for humanitarian engineering – a field that many engineers associate with installation of water and sanitation facilities in rural areas – to adapt mobile communications technologies to address the urgent health needs of this impoverished region.
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Volume 17 Number 3
Fall 1998

Special Feature

    4 Technology as "Big Magic" and Other Myths
    T&S Interview with Langdon Winner
    Is technology out of control? Is the course of technological development inevitable and unchangable? Prominent technology critic Langdon Winner discusses myths about technology development, ideologies of technological determinism, and the difficult choices engineers sometimes face

Features

    18 Broadening Student Perspectives in Engineering Courses*
    In their work as designers, engineers should focus on the betterment of society.
    Andrew S. Lau

    24 Big Government Projects: Which are Successful and Why?*
    What do the transcontinental railroad, the Panama Canal, and the Apollo moon missions have in common? They were all big government technology projects - that succeeded
    Jeff G. Bohn

    * Refereed Article

Departments

    Inside front cover
    Call for Papers
    ISTAS`99: Women and Technology - Historical, Societal, and Professional Perspectives

    3   IEEE President-Elect Candidates' Forum

    32 Call for Papers
    Special Issue on Gender and Technology

Volume 17 Number 3 Fall 1998

Volume 17 Number 3
Fall 1998