Engineering as Social Experimentation Engineering projects can be viewed as social experimentation in that: any project is carried out in partial

l ignorance have uncertain outcomes requires montoring and feedback mandated to obtain informed consent from those affected Contrast with Standard Experiments Experimental Control - not limited under laboratory control condition but on societal scales nformed Consent - deals with people and not with inanimate ojects !noweldege "ain - not necessarily designed to produce very much knowledge - does not tell nothing new but affirms that we are right about something #best outcomes$ - send us to search for new knowledge #unexpected outcomes$