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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Introduction
verfasst von : Dr. Irwin E. Alber
Erschienen in: Aerospace Engineering on the Back of an Envelope
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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I was first made aware of the value of Back-of-the-Envelope (BotE) estimation techniques when I was an aeronautics graduate student at Caltech in the early 1960s. My thesis advisor and mentor, Professor Lester Lees, taught us, by example, his approach to building basic engineering models for complicated real-world problems. He showed us how simple models could be used to estimate the solutions to problems that not only served the needs of our particular graduate research projects, but often had broader import in a number of related aerospace engineering endeavors. We didn’t learn these techniques in the classroom, but in the informal setting at the coffee table in the Caltech student cafeteria.