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Together, We Build Careers
At Goodheart-Willcox, we take our mission seriously. Since 1921, G-W has been serving the
career and technical education (CTE) community. Our employee-owners are driven to deliver
exceptional learning solutions to CTE students to help prepare them for careers. Our authors and
subject matter experts have years of experience in the classroom and industry. We combine their
wisdom with our expertise to create content and tools to help students achieve success. Our prod-
ucts start with theory and applied content based on a strong foundation of accepted standards
and curriculum. To that base, we add student-focused learning features and tools designed to
help students make connections between knowledge and skills. G-W recognizes the crucial role
instructors play in preparing students for careers. We support educators’ efforts by providing
time-saving tools that help them plan, present, assess, and engage students with traditional and
digital activities and assets. We provide an entire program of learning in a variety of print, digital,
and online formats, including economic bundles, allowing educators to select the right mix for
their classroom.
Student-Focused Curated Content
Goodheart-Willcox believes that student-focused content should be built from standards and
accepted curriculum coverage. Generally accepted state and national standards, such as the Standards
for Technological Literacy, were used as a foundation for this text. Engineering Fundamentals is struc-
tured to provide a logical teaching progression that helps students build on their learning. Addi-
tionally, 10 discipline chapters are structured so they can be taught independently of one another,
depending on the teacher’s curriculum or preference. We call on industry experts and teachers from
across the country to review and comment on our content, presentation, and pedagogy. Finally,
in our refi nement of curated content, our editors are immersed in content checking, securing and
sometimes creating fi gures that convey key information, and revising language and pedagogy.
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