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# Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering

### Discussing Equations, Teaching Problem Solving, and Building Intuition

Arons, Arnold B. Teaching Introductory Physics. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1996. ISBN: 9780471137078.

Barouch, Dan H. Voyages in Conceptual Chemistry. Sudbury, MA: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1996. ISBN: 9780763703080.

Epstein, Lewis C. Thinking Physics: Practical Lessons in Critical Thinking. 2nd ed. San Francisco, CA: Insight Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780935218060.

Fleisch, Daniel. A Student’s Guide to Maxwell’s Equations. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008. ISBN: 9780521701471.

Mahajan, Sanjoy. The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity. MIT Press, 2014. [Book available as a free download, or for purchase in paperback form.]

Polya, George. Mathematical Discovery: On Understanding, Learning, and Teaching Problem Solving. Combined ed. New York, NY: John Wiley and Sons, 1981. ISBN: 9780471089759.

### Psychological Foundations for Education

Butterworth, Brian. What Counts: How Every Brain is Hardwired for Math. New York, NY: The Free Press, 1999. ISBN: 9780684854175.

Dweck, Carol. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success and How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 2007. ISBN: 9780345472328.

### Political Barriers to Educational Change

Callahan, Raymond E. Education and the Cult of Efficiency. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1964. ISBN: 9780226091501.

Kohn, Alfie. No Contest: The Case Against Competition. 2nd rev. ed. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1992. ISBN: 9780395631256.

Webb, Walter Prescott. The Great Frontier. Reno, NV: University of Nevada Press, 2003. ISBN: 9780874175196.

Whitten, B. L., S. R. Foster, M. L. Duncombe, P. E. Allen, P. Heron, L. McCullough, K. A. Shaw, B. A. P. Taylor, and H. M. Zorn. “What Works? Increasing the Participation by Women in Undergraduate Physics.” Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering 9 (2003): 239-258.

### Communication

Alley, Michael. The Craft of Scientific Presentations: Critical Steps to Succeed and Critical Errors to Avoid. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2007. ISBN: 9780387955551.

Gopen, George. The Sense of Structure: Writing from the Reader’s Perspective. New York, NY: Longman, 2004. ISBN: 9780205296323.

### Low Entropy Expressions and More

Design-Oriented Analysis Rules and Tools, by R. David Middlebrook

## Course Info

##### Instructor

- Sanjoy Mahajan

##### Departments

- Chemistry
- Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- Biology
- Physics
- Mathematics

##### As Taught In

Spring 2009

##### Level

Graduate

##### Topics

- Engineering
- Science
- Teaching and Education
  - Curriculum and Teaching
  - Higher Education

##### Learning Resource Types

theaters Lecture Videos
assignment Problem Sets

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