Engineering and the Mind's EyeIn this insightful and incisive essay, Eugene Ferguson demonstrates that good engineering is as much a matter of intuition and nonverbal thinking as of equations and computation. He argues that a system of engineering education that ignores nonverbal thinking will produce engineers who are dangerously ignorant of the many ways in which the real world differs from the mathematical models constructed in academic minds. |
Contents
The Minds Eye | 41 |
Origins of Modern Engineering | 60 |
The Tools of Visualization | 75 |
The Development and Dissemination of Engineering | 114 |
The Making of an Engineer | 153 |
The Gap between Promise and Performance | 169 |
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