Learning Results From What The Student Does

The Aim ... Is To Provide A Clear And Rigorous Basis For Determining When A Causal Ordering Can Be Said To Hold Between Two Variables Or Groups Of Variables In A Model . . . . The Concepts Refer To A Model-a System Of Equations-and Not To The 'real' World The Model Purports To Describe.

Think Of The Design Process As Involving First The Generation Of Alternatives And Then The Testing Of These Alternatives Against A Whole Array Of Requirements And Restraints.

The Engineer, And More Generally The Designer, Is Concerned With How Things Ought To Be - How They Ought To Be In Order To Attain Goals, And To Function.

Engineering, Medicine, Business, Architecture And Painting Are Concerned Not With The Necessary But With The Contingent - Not With How Things Are But With How They Might Be - In Short, With Design.

The World Is Vast, Beautiful, And Fascinating, Even Awe-inspiring - But Impersonal. It Demands Nothing Of Me, And Allows Me To Demand Nothing Of It.