Name: Applied Minds
ISBN: 9780393353013

Guru Madhavan

A journey inside the minds that build our world.

How Engineers Think

Applied Minds

Timeo Williams

The book does a decent job of boiling down the engineering process. into parts and then using historical figures to represent each point. however, I felt the book to be lacking in content.

Regardless, here is the engineering mindset:

1. mixing and matching.
2. optimizing
3. enhancing efficiency and reliability
4. standardizing with flexibility
5. solutions under constraints
6. crossing over and adapting
7. prototyping
8. learning from others

The core elements - structure, constraints, trade-offs and it's basic concepts( including recombinantion, optimization, efficiency and prototyping) are equally effective in finding solutions to non-engineering challenges.

Applied Minds How Engineers Think