1. The issue of leadership, the distinction between management and leadership, and the role of engineering in society is treated in D.H. Pletta. The Engineering Profession: Its Heritage and Its Emerging Public Image. University Press of America, Lanhem, Md (1984); The need for engineers to have a much closer involvement with the business aspects of their products was emphasized in E.W. Aslaksen. The Changing Nature of Engineering. McGraw Hill, Australia (1996); And, as an example, Engineers Australia has created a separate Centre for Engineering Leadership and Management in order to promote these aspects of the profession
2. Galloway, P.D.: The 21st Century Engineer. Am. Soc. Civil Engineers, Reston (2008)
3. Florman, S.C.: Has explored the nature and content of engineering, its relationship to the environment in which it is practiced, and its relationship to other areas of human intellectual endeavour, in a series of books: Engineering and the Liberal Arts: A technologist's guide to history, literature, philosophy, art and music. McGraw Hill, New York (1968)
4. The Existential Pleasures of Engineering. St. Martin's Press, New York (1976)
5. Blaming Technology: The irrational search for scapegoats. St. Martin's Press, New York (1981)