Applied minds:
Madhavan, Guruprasad
Applied minds: how engineers think / by Guru Madhavan - Gurgaon, India: Penguin, 2015 - 253 pages ; 21 cm
Invisible bridges --
Mixing and matching --
Optimizing --
Enhancing efficiency and reliability --
Standardizing and flexibility --
Solutions under constraints --
Crossing over and adapting --
Prototyping --
Learning from others --
A mind-set for the multitudes.
Examines the ways in which engineers throughout history created world-changing tools, from ATMs and ZIP codes to the digital camera and the disposable diaper. Madhavan charts a path to a future where we borrow strategies from engineering to find inspired solutions to our most pressing challenges. --From publisher description.
9780670086771
Engineering
Creative thinking
620
Applied minds: how engineers think / by Guru Madhavan - Gurgaon, India: Penguin, 2015 - 253 pages ; 21 cm
Invisible bridges --
Mixing and matching --
Optimizing --
Enhancing efficiency and reliability --
Standardizing and flexibility --
Solutions under constraints --
Crossing over and adapting --
Prototyping --
Learning from others --
A mind-set for the multitudes.
Examines the ways in which engineers throughout history created world-changing tools, from ATMs and ZIP codes to the digital camera and the disposable diaper. Madhavan charts a path to a future where we borrow strategies from engineering to find inspired solutions to our most pressing challenges. --From publisher description.
9780670086771
Engineering
Creative thinking
620