TY - GEN AU - Madhavan,Guruprasad TI - Applied minds: how engineers think / SN - 9780670086771 U1 - 620 PY - 2015/// CY - Gurgaon, India PB - Penguin KW - Engineering KW - Creative thinking N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -