TY - BOOK
T1 - Thinking Like an Engineer: Implications for the education system.
AU - Lucas, Bill
AU - Claxton, Guy
AU - Hanson, Janet
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This report, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Engineering, offers fresh
insights into the ways engineers think. It goes on to suggest ways in which the
education system might be redesigned to develop engineers more effectively. The
report also makes suggestions as to how the wider public might become engaged
with these issues.
Engineers make ‘things’ that work or make ‘things’ work better. But they do this in
quite particular ways. The report identifies six engineering habits of mind (EHoM)
which, taken together, describe the ways engineers think and act:
AB - This report, commissioned by the Royal Academy of Engineering, offers fresh
insights into the ways engineers think. It goes on to suggest ways in which the
education system might be redesigned to develop engineers more effectively. The
report also makes suggestions as to how the wider public might become engaged
with these issues.
Engineers make ‘things’ that work or make ‘things’ work better. But they do this in
quite particular ways. The report identifies six engineering habits of mind (EHoM)
which, taken together, describe the ways engineers think and act:
KW - engineering education
KW - vocational education
KW - engineering habits of mind
KW - public engagement
M3 - Book
BT - Thinking Like an Engineer: Implications for the education system.
ER -