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Engineering Design A Project Based Intro

The book is based on the design program at Harvey Mudd College and introduces the design process in an engineering context. It covers various aspects of design education, including team management, client communication, and ethical considerations, structured around a five-stage linear model. Additionally, it features three design projects to illustrate methods and management tools, making it suitable for professional engineers and undergraduate engineering courses.

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Engineering Design A Project Based Intro

The book is based on the design program at Harvey Mudd College and introduces the design process in an engineering context. It covers various aspects of design education, including team management, client communication, and ethical considerations, structured around a five-stage linear model. Additionally, it features three design projects to illustrate methods and management tools, making it suitable for professional engineers and undergraduate engineering courses.

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120 Book re¨ iews r Materials and Design 23 (2002) 119᎐120

This book is an outgrowth of the well-known design vides a broad introduction to the field in the context of
program at the Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, engineering. Subsequently, Chapter two presents a
California. In this program, students undertake team- model for the design process and discusses teams and
based design projects at the freshman level and also an their management. Chapter three considers the transla-
industrially sponsored capstone design course that spans tion and clarification of the desires of the client in the
the junior and senior levels. Thus at Mudd, it is clearly context of the problem being considered. Objectives
evident that the curricula are based on the philosophy trees are considered. Managing the design process, is
that a thread of design education should be woven the subject of the next chapter. It includes discussion
through the complete college experience. The book on activity networks, Gannt charts and budgets. Speci-
focuses on the early phase of this philosophy by con- fications, functions and metrics are the topic of Chap-
sidering the task of introducing the tools and processes ter five. Chapter six is entitled, ‘Finding answers to the
of conceptual design in a team environment where the problem’. It includes a treatment of design spaces,
members do not have a substantial knowledge of engi- sources of ideas for solving problems and their evalua-
neering. The authors are clearly convinced that fresh- tion. Chapter seven is dedicated to an exposition on
men are capable of creating design specifications and how to effectively report the results of the design
subsequently making decisions on the different options process to the client and other stakeholders. Report
that must be confronted when solving open-ended ill- writing, oral presentations and engineering drawings
defined problems. are the primary considerations. Chapter eight provides
An underpinning of the book is a five-stage linear a glimpse of concurrent engineering with discussions of
model of the design process that is referred to continu- design-for-manufacture, design-for-assembly, cost esti-
ously in an effort to permit the reader to examine the mating, and reliability. Ethics in design is the topic of
current problem phase at hand and develop an effec- Chapter nine. Illustrative examples and professional
tive design solution. It comprises the following steps: codes comprise the basis of the presentation. The book
problem definition; conceptual design; preliminary de- concludes in Chapter ten with a case study of the
sign; detailed design; and design communication. A transportation issues associated with The City Square
second underpinning is the three design projects that project in Charlestown, Massachusetts.
are employed throughout the text to illustrate the This softback book provides enjoyable reading for
design methods and the associated management tools. the professional engineer and is appropriate for inclu-
The first is an industrial design project concerning a sion in the list of supplementary reading materials for
beverage container. The second is the design of a undergraduate freshmen classes in engineering depart-
chicken coop for a Mayan community in Guatemala. ments.
And the third is a major transportation network involv-
ing a commuter road and rail network in Boston. Brian S. Thompson
Engineering Design comprises ten chapters and a Professor and Departmental Design Co-ordinator,
comprehensive bibliography. Each chapter concludes Department of Mechanical Engineering,
with a set of notes and a small set of exercises based on Michigan State Uni¨ ersity,
the ideas presented in the chapter. Chapter one pro- East Lansing, MI 48824, USA

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