How To Think Like An Engineer | The Engineering Design Process

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Problems will always arise, but if you learn how to think like an engineer, you will manage to solve them.
Thinking like an engineer in different areas of my life was really beneficial for me.
By utilizing the engineering design process (know also as the engineering thought process) you can manage to solve problems in the most efficient, and fast way possible.
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@saol3622 3 жыл бұрын

1. Define the real problem. (Root of the problem) 2. Define constraints of the problem 3. Think of different solutions, then select the most effective (engineer is not a person who solves a problem;many can do that, but an engineer is a person who does that in a most and best effective way)

@Readerb86g 2 жыл бұрын

Hope your career in engineering is progressing well. I used first principle thinking (studying, and without knowing that was what I was doing). Long story short, I started physics two weeks late, 80% of the way through the course I was a total "F", yet using a great book, plus refusing to go on unless I knew the first principles and could build up to the needed level of understanding, I caught up to the class and aced the remainder with 110/100 on the final. Therefore at least a "B". There was the usual rumbling of how difficult it was, yet for me, all of it was super easy by that point in the course. That was in '73. Retired now and in the medical field, but always the engineer. Today we have an example by Elon Musk regarding applying first principle thinking. Excellent video and yes, learning by analogy is no substitute for thinking as you described.

@kroycey 4 ай бұрын

What books would you recommend to read to build up a strong foundation of first principles?

@Readerb86g 4 ай бұрын

@@kroycey For you, I dug out the physics book I mentioned above "Introduction to physics for scientists and engineers" by Frederick Bueche. Copyright 1969 So probably the 1st edition? Looking on-line I see many by him 3rd edition as of 1986 but perhaps this one exists out there somewhere. ISBN 07-008833-0 90 HDBP 75432. I can not recommend a book on how to apply first principle thinking but I can recommend this text as an excellent example of applying it as an educational text to develop complex analysis from elemental, first principles. Like when helping some students with their calculus, first principles requires understanding ALL the relative basics of a subject (math in that case) so highlight what you DON'T KNOW and you return until YOU DO KNOW all that is required. Students flunking out realize they KNOW "calculus", just that they typically lacked the understanding how to reduce the final answers that required knowledge of simple handling of fractions. Like my example above, a few went from lost in math, to LOVING it since they now knew how to deal with fractions! The elemental principles of math were killing them with regard to solving the higher level calculus. You can find it. dig until you know that you know it !

@Lemurai 2 жыл бұрын

PhD in engineering, man, I was straight up DONE after my masters lol! But I did a biochem undergrad to Chem E masters and had to learn to cope with the additional math load. The chemistry part was a breeze but when it had to be applied to a real world problem and then scaled up in process, that was a whole different challenge they don’t prepare you for in the biological sciences lol! But I’m glad I did it, everyone needs that one substantial life challenge that doesn’t give you the option of failing. Well, atleast I knew failure for me meant I wasn’t going to be eating good for very long.