Finding 4: The mathematical components of engineering expertise operate in
practice as a synergy of “pure ” mathematical knowledge with knowledge of
materials and structural geometry. Mathematics is seldom active and
foregrounded in this relationship, but is embedded within design thinking.
For example, there are powerful conceptions of the loads and forces in
structures that can be characterised as situated abstractions — abstracted in
the sense ofproviding general invariants of structures, yet situated within the
tools and discourse of the practice.
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