Thinking Like an Engineer

The textbook Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach, 5th Edition, is published by Pearson. It establishes an active learning framework created for students in first-year engineering courses.

The volume fosters self-guided inquiry, steering students away from memorization and formulaic plug-and-chug routines. By emphasizing advance reading and preparatory practice, the text equips students for classroom work that reinforces the material. Instructors can then focus class time on collaborative problem-solving exercises, computational tasks, and hands-on experiments.

Each chapter features checkpoints that supply problem sets for students to solve. These exercises allow learners to practice concepts independently and prepare for collaborative classroom sessions.