Design Concepts for Engineers - Softcover

Horenstein, Mark N.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 013606955X ISBN 13: 9780136069553

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

Design Concepts for Engineers, Fourth Edition teaches the principles of design, and how they apply to engineering design projects and future job activities. Updated in response to reviewer feedback, this edition features even more design projects and increased coverage of team skills. This is an ideal design reference for engineering professionals.

This title is part of the ESource series. ESource–Prentice Hall's Engineering Source – provides a comprehensive, customizable introductory engineering and computing library. Featuring over 29 modules and growing, ESource allows professors to fully customize their textbooks through the ESource website. Professors are not only able to pick and choose complete modules, but also custom-build a freshman engineering text that matches their content needs and course organization exactly! Visit http://www.pearsoncustom.com/customengineer

About this title

From the Back Cover

Esource―Prentice Hall's Engineering Source―provides a complete, flexible introductory engineering and computing program. Featuring over 15 modules and growing, ESource allows engineers to fully customize their books through the ESource website. They are not only able to pick and choose modules, but also sections of modules, incorporate their own materials, and re-paginate and re-index the complete project.

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Features

• An introductory book that examines all aspects of engineering design.
• Topics covered range from brainstorming, teamwork, and the design process, to green design and reverse engineering.
• Features numerous end-of-chapter problems as well as in chapter practice problems to test understanding of concepts.

About the Author

Mark N. Horenstein is a Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boston University. He has degrees in Electrical Engineering from M.I.T. and U.C. Berkeley and has been involved in teaching engineering design for the greater part of his academic career. He frequently teaches first-year engineering courses, and he also devised and developed his department's senior capstone design course. In the latter, students work for a virtual engineering company developing products and systems for real-world engineering and social-service clients. Professor Horenstein does research in the areas of electromechanical design and applied electromagnetics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 013606955X
• ISBN 13: 9780136069553
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 312