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This article focuses on a book named "Retooling: A Historian Confronts Technological Change," by Rosalind H. Williams. The author who is a highly qualified historian, has written a front-line report from her unique vantage point as a dean at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Although not all readers will agree with her diagnosis of engineering's present difficulties and her proposals for curing them, you have Williams to thank for a thoughtful, cogent, and historically well-informed analysis of the engineering profession, and more besides.