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Most of the ideas in this chapter are originally from Thacher and Compeau. That material is copyrighted by Roskilde University Press and is used with permission. I gratefully acknowledge the contributions of Dr. Larry Compeau, my collaborator for several years, and co-advisor of Clarkson University’s Solar Car Team.
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Based partly on a list in Redish (1988).
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Yes, engineering is quintessentially a creative art. Can anyone who has seen a well-executed solar car doubt this? Before you is a concrete expression of an ideal: transportation with minimum waste. Thus it’s beauty derives from the intelligence it expresses and because it is a realization of how our hearts know things should be, but are not.
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Thacher, E. F., & Compeau, L. D. (1999). Project-based learning communities at Clarkson University, in project studies—a late modern university reform? (pp. 194–207). Denmark: Roskilde University Press.
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Thacher, E. (2015). A Solar Car-Based Learning Community. In: A Solar Car Primer. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-17494-5_15
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