Engineering
Chapter Summary
This chapter looks at the way in which engineers use ideas from the discipline of design to inform their work. The complexity that people bring to design problems is introduced, along with some basic methods of dealing with such complexity. It was adapted from Open University’s Design Engineering module (n.d.) by Derek Jones.
- This chapter was adapted from a larger course on “Engineering: Origins, Methods, Context.” Who do you think takes this course? What do you think they learn?
- What do engineers design?
- What do you know about the process of designing or engineering something?
