Engineering Design: A Materials and Processing Approach - Softcover

Dieter, George; Schmidt, Linda C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071263411 ISBN 13: 9780071263412

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education, 2008

Synopsis

Dieter's Engineering Design 4/e represents a major update of this classic textbook for senior design courses. As in previous editions, Engineering Design provides a broader overview of topics than most design texts and contains much more prescriptive guidance on how to carry out design. Dieter focuses on material selection as well as how to implement the design process.

Engineering Design provides the senior mechanical engineering students with a realistic understanding of the design process. It is written from the viewpoint that design is the central activity of the engineering profession, and it is more concerned with developing attitudes and approaches than in presenting design techniques and tools.

Engineering Design provides a realistic understanding of the engineering design process. The book presents in detail (Chapters 1 through 9) an eight-step process that gives prescriptive guidance to the student from problem definition through detail design. Chapters 10 through 16 present more specific treatment of speciality topics (design for X). The text is intended to be used in either a junior or senior engineering course with an integrated hands-on design project.

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From the Publisher:

Separate chapters on problem definition, concept generation and evaluation, the embodiment process, and detail design give students a better structure to guide them through the design process.
Many new references to outside literature and articles, as well as useful tips on design software have been included to enhance the book's long term usefulness to the student.
Provides the senior engineering student with a realistic understanding of the design process.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Higher Education
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0071263411
• ISBN 13: 9780071263412
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 832