The Thinker's Guide to Engineering Reasoning: Based on Critical Thinking Concepts and Tools (Thinker's Guide Library) - Softcover

Richard Paul; Robert Niewoehner; Linda Elder

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0944583334 ISBN 13: 9780944583333

Publisher: The Foundation for Critical Thinking (UK), 2013

Synopsis

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.

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About the Authors

Dr. Richard Paul was a leading proponent of critical thinking and through his work and legacy remains an international authority in the field. He founded the Center for Critical Thinking at Sonoma State University in 1980, followed by the Foundation for Critical Thinking. He developed concepts, principles, and theory essentials to a robust and fairminded conception of critical thinking and authored more than 200 articles and seven books on the topic. He presented workshops to hundreds of thousands of educators over his 35-year career as a leader in the critical thinking movement.

Robert Niewoehner is an aerospace engineering educator and experimental test pilot, his second career after 34 years as a Navy Captain. He authored Engineering our Thinking: Critical Thinking for Technical Professionals (2018) and coauthored Introduction to Flight Test Engineering (2006). He credits Paul and Elder’s mentorship for the awards he’s received as an educator. Dr.

Dr. Linda Elder is an educational psychologist who has taught both psychology and critical thinking at the college level. She has been President of the Foundation for Critical Thinking and the Executive Director of the Center for Critical Thinking for almost 25 years. She has a special interest in the relation of thought and emotion, as well as the cognitive and affective. She has developed an original theory of the stages of critical thinking development. Elder has coauthored four books on critical thinking, as well as all 23 titles found in the Thinker's Guide Library.

Edition details

• Publisher: The Foundation for Critical Thinking (UK)
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0944583334
• ISBN 13: 9780944583333
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 58