공학철학 연구 - 공학적 지식을 중심으로 = A Study on Philosophy of Engineering : Focusing on Engineering Knowledge

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the characteristics of the engineering knowledge demonstrated by the airplane invention process carried out by the Wright brothers. In this paper, I examined the process in which the Wright brothers succeeded in piloting and building airplanes by utilizing birds, kites, bicycles, and gliders, and creating their own unique testing method, the wind tunnel. The writer analyzed the engineering knowledge of the Wright brothers from the perspective of Koen’s engineering methods and Polanyi’s concepts of tacit knowledge and analogy.
Based on Koen, the term “engineering method” refers to the strategy that results in the best possible outcome in a poorly understood or uncertain situation using the available resources. The Wright brothers produced the best possible results with the available resources in an uncertain situation at a time when most experts failed to build airplanes, and their results changed the world significantly.
Polanyi argues that tacit knowledge plays an important role in the process of discovery. Implicit knowledge presupposes the proposition that we know more than we can express. In addition to the type of knowledge that we can express, there is an “unspeakable” knowledge that is not easily determined or clearly articulated.
The Wright brothers learned the art of balance and steering while flying kites and cycling, as well as studying theoretical concepts during the plane’s production process; they also studied the relationship between the plane’s wings and wind by observing birds. The Wright brothers’ airplane construction and discovery are good examples of analogy reasoning. When knowledge is scarce, ubiquitousism may prove useful. In a situation where knowledge has not accumulated and only abstract knowledge can solve the problem, analogy reasoning replaces core knowledge.
The Wright brothers’ demonstration of engineering knowledge in the piloting and construction of airplanes reveals characteristics of the analogy method and the use of tacit knowledge to generate the best possible results and change the world using the available resources in an uncertain situation.

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