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... The panel identified four factors of particular importance for the present-day engineering profession: { 1 J a great expansion of the roles of government; {2J a rapid increase in the amount of information present in daily life and work; {3J the accelerating rate of technology development; and t4J the internationalization of business and the marketplace. The large-scale support of national technological, social, and economic objectives by the federal government in the postwar period has led to a variety of new federal agencies.
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... In addition, with more public attention to technological matters has come an increase in ethical concerns associated with engineering work, particularly in environment-related fields such as the chemical and automotive industries and in the whole area of nuclear energy {for both power generation and defense)
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