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Volume 25 Number 1
Spring 2006
Media Portrayals of Engineers

IEEE Technology and Society Magazine

VOLUME 25, NUMBER 1, SPRING 2006

 

DEPARTMENTS

3 President’s Message
4 Policy Perspectives
5 News
6 Living with Technology
10 Book Reviews


SPECIAL FEATURE

12  Portrayals of Engineers in “Science Times”
Fiona Clark and Deborah L. Illman


FEATURES

22 How Good Are Our Weapons in the Spam Wars?
Bogdan Hoanca

31 Assessing Online Course Dialogue on the Ethics of Weapons Design
M. L. Cummings


38 Effects of E-Enforcement in the Netherlands
Marieke Koopmans-Van Berlo and Hans De Bruijn


*Refereed articles.
Cover Image: Corbis.