Egr100
Fall 1999
Ileana Streinu
Doreen Weinberger

• M. Resnick, F. Martin, R. Berg, R. Borovoy, V. Collela, K. Kramer, B. Silverman: Digital Manipulatives: New Toys to Think with.
• F. Martin, The Art of Lego Design.
• Building Strong Lego Structures, handout.

Optional Reading List

• J. Jones, B. Seiger, A. Flynn, Mobile Robots - Inspiration to Implementation.
• H.R.Everett, Sensors for Mobile Robots.
• Henry Petroski
  • Beyond engineering : essays and other attempts to figure without equations MH
  • Design paradigms : case histories of error and judgment in engineering SC
  • Engineers of dreams : great bridge builders and the spanning of America SC, AC, MH
  • The evolution of useful things SC, AC, HC, MH
  • Invention by design : how engineers get from thought to thing SC, AC, HC, MH
  • The pencil : a history of design and circumstance SC, AC, MH
  • Remaking the world : adventures in engineering SC
  • To engineer is human : the role of failure in successful design SC
• Isaac Asimov
  • I, Robot SC/Neilson, PS3551.S5 I2 1963