The Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning: Based on Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools

by Richard Paul, Robert Niewoehner, Linda Elder

The Thinker’s Guide to Engineering Reasoningapplies critical thinking concepts to the field of engineering. Students and professionals across engineering will find their analytical abilities enhanced by the engaging authoritative framework set forth by Richard Paul and Linda Elder.

For engineers to properly reason through engineering projects requires strong analytic skills. The best engineers are clear about their purposes, gather sufficient information, and develop innovations. This requires critical reasoning and this guide offers tools essential to this process.

As part of the Thinker’s Guide Library, this book advances the mission of the Foundation for Critical Thinking to promote fairminded critical societies through cultivating essential intellectual abilities and virtues within every field of study across the world.

Genres: Engineering

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1393

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Reviews

[Nguyễn Anh Tiến · Rating 4 out of 5]

this is a good book, but I don't understand completely when I read it first. I will read it again many times

[George Scott · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good book to go through before starting an Engineering program. I keep it on my shelf for quick reviews of terms and theory.

[Heather · Rating 5 out of 5]

This short booklet was recommended to me by an engineering faculty member. At only 49 pages, it's a quick read, and it's a great introduction to how critical thinking skills related to engineering, and how to incorporate these skills into instruction. A few of the exercises in the book would work very easily for library instruction in a flipped classroom environment. The instructor indicated that when she has used this guide to frame exercises on analyzing engineering literature, she has had greater buy-in from the students, who start to see it as something coming from an engineering perspective, as opposed to a communications perspective. As a former medical librarian, I've been looking for something that mirrors the health sciences' approach to critical appraisal in a way that is relevant to engineering; this is a great book in that regard.

[Scott Wade · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good foundational reference

A good book to read and re-read throughout ones career. An excellent book to help connect both young and experienced engineers.