Download or read book What Engineers Know and How They Know It written by Walter G. Vincenti and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To solve their design problems, engineers draw on a vast body of knowledge about how things work. Examining previously unstudied historical cases, this author shows how engineering knowledge is obtained and presents a model to help explain the growth of such knowledge.