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Foreword

Introduction

A Framework for Engineering Reasoning

Intellectual Traits Essential to Engineering Reasoning

To Analyze Thinking, We Must Learn to Identify and Question Its

Elemental Structures

A Checklist for Engineering Reasoning

The Spirit of Critical Thinking

Analyzing an Engineering Document

Analyzing a Design Using the Elements of Thought

Two Kinds of Engineering Questions

Analyzing Disciplines: Aerospace Engineering

Analyzing Disciplines: Electrical Engineering

Analyzing Disciplines: Mechanical Engineering

Analyzing Engineering Tools: Modeling and Simulation

Skilled Engineers Consentingly Adhere to Intellectual Standards

Universal Intellectual Standards Essential to Sound Engineering Reasoning

Using Intellectual Standards to Assess Design Features

Using Intellectual Standards to Assess Graphics

Evaluating an Engineer's or Author's Reasoning

Analyzing & Assessing Engineering Research

 Purpose

 Questions at Issue or Central Problem

 Information

 inference and Interpretation

 Assumptions

 Concepts and Ideas

 Point of View

 implications and Consequences

The Questioning Mind in Engineering: The Wright Brothers

The Cost of Thinking Gone Awry

Noteworthy Connections and Distinctions

Ethics and Engineering

Engineering Reasoning Objectives

Evaluating Student Work in Engineering

The Problem of Egocentric Thinking

Stages of Critical Thinking Development