Thinking Like an Engineer, 5th Edition is designed to facilitate an active learning environment for first-year engineering courses. Checkpoints in each chapter provide worked-out problem sets for you to solve using your own logic, helping you develop the problem-solving skills you need to solve more difficult problems. A variety of collaborative problem-solving activities, computer-based activities, and hands-on experiments help you take your learning further and develop the skill set to begin thinking like an engineer. The 5th Edition is updated to incorporate current software releases, including Microsoft® Office 2019®, Office 365®, Excel® Online, and MATLAB® 2020a.