Engineering and the Mind's Eye

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.

About the author

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

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.

Additional text

A sophisticated, thoughtful, and provocative analysis of thenature of engineering.—Steven Lubar, Science—

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A sophisticated, thoughtful, and provocative analysis of thenature of engineering. Steven Lubar, Science

Product details

• Authors: Ferguson, Eugene S Ferguson, Eugene S. Ferguson, Ferguson Eugene S.
• Publisher: The MIT Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.1994
• EAN: 9780262560788
• ISBN: 978-0-262-56078-8
• No. of pages: 258
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 213 mm x 12 mm
• Series: Engineering and the Mind's Eye; The MIT Press; The MIT Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > School education, didactics, methodology; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Design / General, Teaching of a specific subject, Technical design, EDUCATION / Teaching / Subjects / General