Contains the essence of engineering reasoning concepts and tools. For faculty it provides a shared concept and vocabulary. For students it is a thinking supplement to any textbook for any engineering course.

Cover title. "Based on critical thinking concepts & tools."

Foreword -- Introduction -- Model of engineering reasoning -- Intellectual traits essential to engineering reasoning -- Universal structures of thought -- Checklist for engineering reasoning -- Spirit of critical thinking -- Analyzing an engineering document -- Analyzing design using the elements of thought -- Two kinds of engineering questions -- Analyzing discipline: Aerospace engineering -- Analyzing discipline: Electrical engineering -- Analyzing discipline: Analyzing discipline: Mechanical engineering -- Analyzing engineering tools: Modeling and simulation -- Engineering reasoning uses intellectual standards -- Design evaluation questions targeting intellectual standards -- Using intellectual standards to assess graphics -- Evaluating an engineer's or author's reasoning -- and assessing engineering research -- Recognizing skilled and unskilled reasoning -- Questioning mind in engineering: The right brothers -- Cost of thinking gone awry -- Noteworthy connections and distinctions -- Ethic and engineering -- Problem of egocentric thinking -- Engineering reasoning objectives -- Evaluating student work in engineering -- Stages of critical thinking development.