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Engineering and the mind's eye
Responsibility | Eugene S. Ferguson |
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Material Type | Book |
Publisher | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press |
Year | c1992 |
Language | English |
Size | xiv, 241 p. ; 23 cm |
Abstract | 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 syst...m 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. show more |
Holdings
Status | Volume | Location | Call No. | Printed | Collection Name | Barcode No. | Comments | Reserve | Copy | Automatic archive |
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pbk. | SciTech 2F Open Stacks | 504/F 21 | 1999 |
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027212001000752 |
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pbk. | ENGINEERING Library of Mechanical Eng. Sci. | 500//FER | 1999 |
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027212001000740 |
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Bibliographic details
Notes | Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Authors | *Ferguson, Eugene S. |
Subjects | LCSH:Engineering LCSH:Creative thinking |
Classification | LCC:TA145 DC20:620 |
ID | 1001130061 |
ISBN | 0262061473 |
NCID | BA18266384 |
Vol | ISBN:0262061473 |
Created Date | 2009.09.17 |
Modified Date | 2009.09.17 |