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Thinking : a guide to systems engineering problem-solving / Howard Eisner.

By: Eisner, Howard, 1935- [author.].
Publisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2019]Description: xv, 105 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780367112196; 9780367112202.Subject(s): Systems engineering | Problem solvingAdditional physical formats: Online version:: ThinkingDDC classification: 620/.0042019
Contents:
Aspects of thinking -- Thinking outside the box -- Systems and thinking -- Other thinking perspectives -- Innovation -- Thinking : miscellany -- Engineers with special thoughts -- Top dozen for systems engineers -- Final thoughts -- Selected thinkers : past and modern day -- Suggested topics for a first course in "STEM".
Summary: "This book provides an overview of more than a dozen ways of thinking, to include: Inductive Thinking, Deductive Thinking, Reductionist Thinking, Out-of-the-Box Thinking, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Disruptive Thinking, Lateral Thinking, Critical Thinking, Fast and Slow Thinking, and Breakthrough Thinking. With these thinking skills, the reader is better able to tackle and solve new and varied types of problems"-- Provided by publisher.
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"This book provides an overview of more than a dozen ways of thinking, to include: Inductive Thinking, Deductive Thinking, Reductionist Thinking, Out-of-the-Box Thinking, Systems Thinking, Design Thinking, Disruptive Thinking, Lateral Thinking, Critical Thinking, Fast and Slow Thinking, and Breakthrough Thinking. With these thinking skills, the reader is better able to tackle and solve new and varied types of problems"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references.

Aspects of thinking -- Thinking outside the box -- Systems and thinking -- Other thinking perspectives -- Innovation -- Thinking : miscellany -- Engineers with special thoughts -- Top dozen for systems engineers -- Final thoughts -- Selected thinkers : past and modern day -- Suggested topics for a first course in "STEM".