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.