1 IntroductionThe Territory Ahead

DOI: 10.1201/9781003214397-1

1.1 Across the Great Divide: The Need for Change

The engineering organization is a mysterious place.

Full of surprises, unsolved riddles, and hidden forces, this territory is governed by invisible rules and unwritten expectations. And surrounding it is a Great Divide, a barrier separating it from the world of university studies. New engineering graduates entering this place could probably use some help, perhaps a good map to navigate its many paths and byways.

Fortunately, a new engineer does not need help with technical knowledge. Not with the calculus. Not with the statics and dynamics of non-linear mechanical systems. And certainly not with differential equations or C++ programming. ...

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