For first-year engineering courses.

Promote self-guided inquiry

Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach provides the skills foundation new engineering students need to prepare for upper-level courses. It helps them move beyond “plug-and-chug” and memorizing problem-solving methods, encouraging them instead to ask if their approaches and answers make sense in the physical world. Sections on time management, goal setting, and study skills are integrated throughout to assist on topics where students will most likely need them. An emphasis on reading and practice before class helps learners arrive prepared; instructors can then devote class time to collaborative problem solving, computer-based activities, and hands-on experiments.

The 6th Edition utilizes MATLAB® 2024 throughout, incorporates a new problem-solving framework, discusses AI in ethical engineering, and much more.