Review of Elements of Human Engineering

Abstract

Reviews the book, Elements of Human Engineering by Charles R. Gow (see record 1932-03326-000 ). This book is a course of lectures given to a class in Humanics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. A similar volume was published a few years ago and the present work evidently represents a development of that same course through a period of years. It constitutes a very distinct improvement over the earlier effort. The first was largely inspirational, preachy, and fixed up with unusually tricky titles for the various chapters. The present discussion is more straightforward and there is no offensive, figurative language. The work is not particularly psychological in character, although there is occasional mention of psychological principles. As far as the reviewer can see there are no psychological fallacies committed. It is a type of common-sense presentation which would probably be valuable for the group for whom it was designed. It includes considerable good advice for a young man leaving college or some similar institution. The author is to be commended for not playing it up as an especially psychological treatise. It is a book which would be satisfactory to put into the hands of any young college graduate. It would certainly do no harm, might give him some ideas that would be of value and might furnish him just a bit of inspiration. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)