Engineering

For use as a supplement or core text in courses which recognize problem solving as an important basis for engineering and computer science education.

Unusually broad in scope and comprehensive in coverage, this classic exploration of the concepts and methods of problem solving offers a balanced examination of qualitative tools, quantitative tools, and human values — and their role in the problem solving process.

• takes an interdisciplinary approach to problem solving.

• treats models and the modeling process in a rich context — with a focus on what can and what cannot be derived from models in problem solving.

• contains comprehensive treatment of language (including artificial languages of logic and computer languages) and communication and their influence on thinking and problem solving.

  • considers patterns of language acquisition, and language and thought.

  • includes new sections on artificial intelligence, expert systems, and neural networks.

  • enhances the section on computer language of zeroes and ones with a section on Product Code Labels in the form of Bar Codes.

• features a new chapter on Human Memory and problem solving — including both storage and retrieval.

• expands coverage of symbolic logic with a section on Fuzzy Logic, Fuzzy Set Theory and its relationships to thinking and categorization.

• adds a section on Dynamic Systems and Chaos to the chapter on Dynamic System Models.

• expands treatment of tree diagrams to solve probability problems.

• includes many new and revised drill exercises, exercises, and problems.

 1. Problem Solving.


 2. Language and Communication.


 3. Effective Use of Human Memory.


 4. Probability and the Will to Doubt.


 5. Models and Modeling.


 6. Probabilistic Models.


 7. Decision-Making Models.


 8. Optimization Models: “Selecting the Best Possible.”


 9. Dynamic System Models.


10. Values and Models of Behavior.


References and Selected Bibliography.


Answers to Selected Exercises.


Index.

Problem Solving for Engineers and Scientists [AOD TITLES] (General Engineering)
Problem Solving / Programming Logic [AOD TITLES] (Computer Science)

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  ISBN-10: 0130904007 | ISBN-13: 9780130904003
  
  
  

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