Re: cognition and engineers

Brian E. McNurlen (mcnurlen who-is-at students.uiuc.edu)
Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:13:03 -0500

Your class sounds very interesting, but I know I tried to find some
literature on this topic a few years ago and wasn't very lucky. I was
trying to write a paper with a colleague in the engineering college to be
presented at an engineering conference. One of the few books I found that
gave me some insight was Eugene Furgeson's "Engineering and the Mind's
Eye," which came out in 1992 (MIT Press).

>I was curious if anyone on this list knew of work done on the thinking
>processes of electrical, mechanical, chemical or civil engineers. I teach
>a class called the Psychology of Science and Technology that looks at the
>working cognition of scientists and technologist. I have been using
>John-Steiner's Notebooks of the Mind, Explorations in Thinking, (thank you
>Vera) and Wallace and Gruber's Creative People at Work. Both of which I
>will continue to use, but most of my students will be engineers and I
>would like a specific text if I can find one.
>Thank you.
>
> Doris Ravotas
>
> "To speak for others is to first silence whose in whose name we
>speak." (Calloon 1986:216)
>
>Doris Ravotas dravotas 906-487-3571
>Dept. of Education
>Michigan Technological University
>1400 Townsend Dr.
>Houghton, Mi 499131

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