Preface

¹ The permission for use of these problems, which, incidentally, may be obtained from the Documents Section, California Board of Registration for Civil and Professional Engineers—Chemical Engineering, 1004 6th Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, is gratefully acknowledged. (Note: These problems have been copyrighted by the California Board of Registration and may not be reproduced without its permission.)

² R. W. Paul, Critical Thinking (Santa Rosa, Cal.: Foundation for Critical Thinking, 1992).

³ Courtesy of B. K. Scheffer and M. G. Rubenfeld, “A Consensus Statement on Critical Thinking in Nursing,” Journal of Nursing Education, 39, 352–59 (2000).

⁴ Courtesy of B. K. Scheffer and M. G. Rubenfeld, “Critical Thinking: What Is It and How Do We Teach It?” Current Issues in Nursing (2001).

⁵ R. W. Paul, Critical Thinking (Santa Rosa, Cal.: Foundation for Critical Thinking, 1992); B. K. Scheffer and M. G. Rubenfeld, “A Consensus Statement on Critical Thinking in Nursing,” Journal of Nursing Education, 39, 352–59 (2000).

⁶ H. S. Fogler and S. E. LeBlanc, Strategies for Creative Problem Solving, Second Edition (Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2006).

⁷ http://www.ncsu.edu/felder-public/ILSdir/styles.htm

⁸ The name FEMLAB was changed to COMSOL Multiphysics on July 1, 2005.

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