Engineering by Design, 2nd edition

Engineering By Design introduces students to a broad range of important design topics. The engineering design process provides the skeletal structure for the text, around which is wrapped numerous cases that illustrate both successes and failures in engineering design. The text provides a balance of qualitative presentation of engineering practices that can be understood by students with little technical knowledge and a more quantitative approach in which substantive analytical techniques are used to develop and evaluate proposed engineering solutions. This flexibility means that the text can be used in a wide variety of courses.

To assist instructors with the delivery of text material, a set of instructor support tools are available to adopters of the text via a website.

• Edition includes new or increased coverage of economic analysis and decision-making (Ch. 10), manufacturing and materials (Ch. 11), and modeling (Ch. 6).

• Features new case studies and more photographs to give this book an increased visual appeal.

• Case Studies.

  • Present an ideal or benchmark solution which may serve as a model for future work.

• Case Histories.

  • Describe how problems were actually solved and the consequences of the decisions that were made.

• Case Problems.

  • Set forth open-ended situations that leave the choice of a solution up to the reader. Case Problems can be “learning modules” designed to put students to work in teams to define the problem and solve it through research, discussion, and/or lab work.

• Edition includes new or increased coverage of economic analysis and decision-making (Ch. 10), manufacturing and materials (Ch. 11), and modeling (Ch. 6).

• Features new case studies and more photographs to give this book an increased visual appeal.