Bøger af Denny Davis

A short story or two with a cup of tea is an ideal way to relax and escape from the cares of the world. None of the stories in this book are overlong, and all make for easy reading. The subjects are varied, ranging from ghost stories to little slices of life, with at least one drawn from the author's own experience. He hopes the reader derives as much pleasure from reading them as he did from writing them.

Novice and expert designers think very differently. The big challenge in engineering education is developing inexperienced designers into professionals who think like expert designers. The key to developing expertise is mentoring learners in design thinking as they work with real design challenges. The book, Design Thinking, is created to provide problem-specific mentoring within individual design teams. Team members learn by testing their knowledge, reflecting on its success, revising understanding as necessary, and performing at higher levels with the advice of an experienced mentor: the Design Thinking book.The Design Thinking book is constructed around brief mentoring sessions that occur in the context of actual work of the team. Teams gain just-in-time assistance through a focused discussion on the task at hand. Members discuss questions posed and identify actions needed to refine or complete what they are doing. Team members collectively increase their understanding of the design work they are doing, identify errors or oversights in their work, and improve upon their design.By using exercises in Design Thinking, inexperienced designers practice critical review of their design processes and intermediate design products before costly mistakes are accepted without question. These pauses to reflect also invite creative ideas for improving solutions and their value. In the end, design teams produce more valuable design products and become more valuable design professionals in their future career paths. Be smart! Develop design expertise now, and it will produce exceptional dividends in the future.

"Is engineering for me? Do I think, act, and look like an engineer? How do engineers approach problems like this?" Young men and women dreaming about being an engineer have many questions and doubts that engineering is for them. Young students who are curious about engineering need an engineering project experience that gives them an accurate picture of engineering while also exercising their abilities to do engineering. They need relevant "engineering" projects to challenge and motivate them, as well as resources to help them understand what to do and be successful. Unsuccessful or dissatisfying projects can cause students to doubt that they are cut out for engineering or that engineering is right for them. Without adequate support, students are set up to fail and reject engineering as a career choice.This book demonstrates to students that they can walk-the-walk and talk-the-talk of engineering. It provides content to learn the language of engineering while using engineering methods to address project challenges. The book is intended for student teams in their first significant "engineering" project. As teams discuss lessons, they build community, develop common language, and discover how to use engineering methods. Together they learn to do engineering and begin thinking like engineers. They accurately assess their potential to become engineers.If you teach a pre-engineering projects course in high school or first-year college, this book can help your students be successful in their projects. If you coach a high school robotics team, the book will help and encourage your team as they design and build their robots. If your teams have students of different grade levels or familiarities with engineering, this book will help with level-appropriate material for everyone.This book builds on experience using the Pre-Engineering Primer, first edition with a high school FIRST(R) FTC robotics team. This second edition has several improvements, including level-appropriate discussion questions and answers to all questions. It also provides a chapter on engineering careers and education choices. Students using this book are supported for success as they engage in "engineering" projects.

Denny Davis is a respected engineering professor, who retired on paper. In retirement he refocused to improve engineering education and to bring engineering alive for grandchildren and youth in his community. Then in early 2018, a lump on his head was diagnosed as multiple myeloma, a treatable but incurable blood cancer. This began a journey he described as an opportunity to prepare better for life's final years on earth and beyond. Davis takes the reader through his multiple myeloma experience from diagnosis to cancer remission, stem cell transplant, and preparation for an unknown future. He describes medical procedures, their impacts on him, and his hope-filled perspectives on life in this body and beyond. Along this journey, medical professionals described Davis' physical and personal responses to treatments as fabulous, amazing, and wonderful-outcomes exuding hope.Davis keeps a sharp focus on hope at all stages of his description of diagnosis, treatment, and recovery. He presents conditions that dash one's hope, biblical reasons for hope, and outcomes that shout of tangible hope. He ends by explaining what constitutes solid hope and how to tap into this hope. Although many cancer stories speak of hope for the short term, this one points the reader to hope for the short and long term. In the face of life-threatening conditions, we can have hope that brings peace and joy.

Teamwork Minutes brings authenticity to learning teamwork in project settings. Teams discuss and negotiate team relationships, goals, processes, and work practices as they address project challenges. This gives every team member a stake in the discussions and the opportunity to shape the team to meet individual and team goals. As a result, the team benefits from the perspectives and contributions of every member, not just the powerful few.Teamwork Minutes is structured to incorporate brief team-focused discussions into regular team meetings. Each exercise raises a topic for discussion, addressing team management, team relationships, team communication, working together, or working alone. Questions focus the discussion on common issues related to the topic. Each exercise is seeded with a time-honored principle. The exercise ends with identification of actions to be taken to advance the team toward improved performance. Why just learn about teamwork and issues of concern? Teamwork Minutes builds team cohesion, practical teamwork understanding, and enjoyable team work that yields lasting results. Investing a few minutes under the mentoring of Teamwork Minutes will produce exceptional performance and team skills that transfer into future team settings.