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9780262560788

Engineering and the Mind's Eye

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  • ISBN13:

    9780262560788

  • ISBN10:

    026256078X

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1994-03-29
  • Publisher: The MIT Press

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Summary

In 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.

Author Biography

Eugene Ferguson is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Delaware.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
The Nature of Engineering Designp. 1
The Mind's Eyep. 41
Origins of Modern Engineeringp. 60
The Tools of Visualizationp. 75
The Development and Dissemination of Engineering Knowledgep. 114
The Making of an Engineerp. 153
The Gap between Promise and Performancep. 169
Notes to Textp. 195
Notes to Figuresp. 229
Indexp. 235
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