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Thinking A Guide to Systems Engineering Problem-Solving

Thinking A Guide to Systems Engineering Problem-Solving

Thinking: A Guide to Systems Engineering Problem-Solving focuses upon articulating ways of thinking in today’s world of systems and systems engineering. It also explores how the old masters made the advances they made hundreds of years ago. Taken together these considerations represent new ways of problem solving and new pathways to answers for modern times. Special areas of interest include types of intelligence attributes of superior thinkers systems architecting corporate standouts barriers to thinking and innovative companies and universities. This book provides an overview of more than a dozen ways of thinking to include: Inductive Thinking Deductive Thinking Reductionist Thinking Out-of-the-Box Thinking Systems Thinking Design Thinking Disruptive Thinking Lateral Thinking Critical Thinking Fast and Slow Thinking and Breakthrough Thinking. With these thinking skills the reader is better able to tackle and solve new and varied types of problems. Features Proposes new approaches to problem solving for the systems engineer Compares as well as contrasts various types of Systems Thinking Articulates thinking attributes of the great masters as well as selected modern systems engineers Offers chapter by chapter thinking exercises for consideration and testing Suggests a top dozen for today’s systems engineers | Thinking A Guide to Systems Engineering Problem-Solving

GBP 44.99
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Handbook of Systems Thinking Methods

Handbook of Systems Thinking Methods

The systems thinking philosophy has become popular in human factors and ergonomics and safety science. These methods are being used to understand and resolve complex societal problems in areas such as transport safety workplace safety medication error disaster management child abuse financial crises terrorism climate change and public health and wellbeing. This handbook presents practical step-by-step guidance for practitioners and researchers wishing to use these methods to tackle complex problems. Each method includes an example case study which demonstrates how the method can be applied and how the results can be interpreted and translated into practical recommendations. The book presents practical guidance on state-of-the-art systems thinking methods and offers case study applications describing systems thinking methods in novel areas. It explains how to translate the outputs of systems thinking methods in practice and introduces systems thinking with an overview of Human Factors and Ergonomics applications. This book will serve as a great reference for students and engineers in the field of systems engineering complex systems and the design and development of systems including ergonomics/human factors and systems engineers designers architects industrial engineers project management engineers reliability engineers risk engineers software engineers and computer engineers. | Handbook of Systems Thinking Methods

GBP 115.00
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The Need for Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method

The Need for Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method

The book exposes many of the misunderstandings about the scientific method and its application to critical thinking. It argues for a better understanding of the scientific method and for nurturing critical thinking in the community. This knowledge helps the reader to analyze issues more objectively and warns about the dangers of bias and propaganda. The principles are illustrated by considering several issues that are currently being debated. These include anthropogenic global warming (often loosely referred to as climate change) dangers to preservation of the Great Barrier Reef and the expansion of the gluten-free food market and genetic engineering. | The Need for Critical Thinking and the Scientific Method

GBP 42.99
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Security Management A Critical Thinking Approach

Security Management A Critical Thinking Approach

Security is a paradox. It is often viewed as intrusive unwanted a hassle or something that limits personal if not professional freedoms. However if we need security we often feel as if we can never have enough. Security Management: A Critical Thinking Approach provides security professionals with the ability to critically examine their organizational environment and make it secure while creating an optimal relationship between obtrusion and necessity. It stresses the benefits of using a methodical critical thinking process in building a comprehensive safety management system. The book provides a mechanism that enables readers to think clearly and critically about the process of security management emphasizing the ability to articulate the differing aspects of business and security management by reasoning through complex problems in the changing organizational landscape. The authors elucidate the core security management competencies of planning organizing staffing and leading while providing a process to critically analyze those functions. They specifically address information security cyber security energy-sector security chemical security and general security management utilizing a critical thinking framework. Going farther than other books available regarding security management this volume not only provides fundamental concepts in security but it also creates informed critical and creative security managers who communicate effectively in their environment. It helps create a practitioner who will completely examine the environment and make informed well-thought-out judgments to tailor a security program to fit a specific organization. | Security Management A Critical Thinking Approach

GBP 59.99
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Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts Maps Archives and Timelines

Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts Maps Archives and Timelines

Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts: Maps Archives and Timelines cultivates the spatial thinking habit of mind as a critical geographical view of how the world works including how environmental systems function and how we can approach and solve environmental problems using maps archives and timelines. The work explains why spatial thinking matters as it helps readers to integrate a variety of methods to describe and analyze spatial/temporal events and phenomena in disparate environmental contexts. It weaves together maps GIS timelines and storytelling as important strategies in examining concepts and procedures in analyzing real-world data and relationships. The work thus adds significant value to qualitative and quantitative research in environmental (and related) sciences. Features Written by internationally renowned experts known for taking complex ideas and finding accessible ways to more broadly understand and communicate them. Includes real-world studies explaining the merging of disparate data in a sensible manner understandable across several disciplines. Unique approach to spatial thinking involving animated maps 3D maps GEOMATs and story maps to integrate maps archives and timelines—first across a single environmental example and then through varied examples. Merges spatial and temporal views on a broad range of environmental issues from traditional environmental topics to more unusual ones involving urban studies medicine municipal/governmental application and citizen-scientist topics. Provides easy to follow step-by-step instructions to complete tasks; no prior experience in data processing is needed. | Spatial Thinking in Environmental Contexts Maps Archives and Timelines

GBP 44.99
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Strategic Security Forward Thinking for Successful Executives

Strategic Security Forward Thinking for Successful Executives

Strategic Security will help security managers and those aspiring to the position to think strategically about their job the culture of their workplace and the nature of security planning and implementation. Security professionals tend to focus on the immediate (the urgent) rather than the important and essential—too often serving as firefighters rather than strategists. This book will help professionals consider their roles and structure their tasks through a strategic approach without neglecting their career objectives. Few security management books for professionals in the field focus on corporate or industrial security from a strategic perspective. Books on the market normally provide recipes methods or guidelines to develop plans policies or procedures. However many do so without taking into account the personal element that is supposed to apply these methods. In this book the authors helps readers to consider their own career development in parallel with establishing their organisation security programme. This is fundamental to becoming and serving as a quality effective manager. The element of considering career objectives as part-and-parcel to this is both unique to only this book and vital for long-term career success. The author delineates what makes strategic thinking different in a corporate and security environment. While strategy is crucial in the running of a company the traditional attitude towards security is that it has to fix issues quickly and at low cost. This is an attitude that no other department would tolerate but because of its image security departments sometimes have major issues with buy-in and from top-management. The book covers the necessary level of strategic thinking to put their ideas into practice. Once this is achieved the strategic process is explained including the need to build the different steps into this process—and into the overarching business goals of the organisation—will be demonstrated. The book provides numerous hand-on examples of how to formulate and execute the strategic master plan for the organization. The authors draws on his extensive experience and successes to serve as a valuable resource to all security professionals looking to advance their careers in the field. | Strategic Security Forward Thinking for Successful Executives

GBP 44.99
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About Designing Analysing Design Meetings

About Designing Analysing Design Meetings

The twenty-one contributions to About: Designing draw on a rich variety of methodological positions research backgrounds and design disciplines including architecture product design engineering applied linguistics communication studies cognitive psychology and discourse studies. Collectively these studies comprise a state-of-the-art overview of design thinking research. About: Designing will be of interest to design researchers at any level as well as specialists in a broad range of design disciplines and social studies. | About Designing Analysing Design Meetings

GBP 145.00
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Design and Emotion

Design and Emotion

There is considerable interest in and growing recognition of the emotional domain in product development. The relationship between the user and the product is paramount in industry which has led to major research investments in this area. Traditional ergonomic approaches to design have concentrated on the user's physical and cognitive abilities. However new approaches also take into consideration the user's emotional relationship with their belongings. Design and Emotion is an edited collection of papers given at the 3rd Design and Emotion Conference 2002. These contributions outline the latest developments findings and techniques in industrial applications and in research bringing you up-to-date with the current thinking in this field. As a forum for discussing the latest ideas in emotion-driven design this book will prove to be essential reading for all human factors specialists involved in design.

GBP 59.99
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How to Stop a Hijacking Critical Thinking in Civil Aviation Security

How to Stop a Hijacking Critical Thinking in Civil Aviation Security

Hijackings and bombings have plagued civil aviation since 1930 and air rage incidents are on the rise. While there is aircraft and inflight training available for air marshals other first responders receive minimal training on inflight security awareness and protocols. There are no other resources currently available to flight crews or armed first responders that specifically address inflight security and how to address threats of disturbances on airplanes. How to Stop a Hijacking provides readers with fundamental principles on how to think more critically about onboard security threats. The aircraft cabin poses unique environment and security challenges and first responders can apply security awareness and critical thinking skills to establish a safer environment in the cabin and airport for everyone onboard. The lessons in this book are driven with the central objective of teaching the reader how to counter inflight aggression and maintain tactical control of the cabin. Written by a former federal air marshal instructor this book looks at the recent rash of air rage incidents and violence on airplanes in addition to the real and ever-present threat of hijack or potential explosive device. How to Stop a Hijacking is a practical guide that offers methodological and tactically proven strategies for stopping violent acts onboard an aircraft inflight. | How to Stop a Hijacking Critical Thinking in Civil Aviation Security

GBP 48.99
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Engineering Writing by Design Creating Formal Documents of Lasting Value Second Edition

Engineering Writing by Design Creating Formal Documents of Lasting Value Second Edition

Engineering Writing by Design: Creating Formal Document of Lasting Value Second Edition shows how effective writing can be achieved by thinking like an engineer. Based on the authors’ combined experience as engineering educators the book presents a novel approach to technical writing positioning formal writing tasks as engineering design problems with requirements constraints protocols standards and customers (readers) to satisfy. Specially crafted for busy engineers and engineering students this quick-reading conversational text: Describes how to apply engineering design concepts to the writing process Explains how engineers fall into thinking traps and gives techniques for avoiding them Covers the essentials of grammar style and mathematical exposition Highlights topics in writing ethics including copyright plagiarism data presentation and persuasion Engineering Writing by Design: Creating Formal Documents of Lasting Value Second Edition addresses the specific combination of thinking and writing skills needed to succeed in modern engineering. Its mantra is: to write like an engineer you must think like an engineer. Featuring illustrative examples chapter summaries and exercises quick-reference tables and recommendations for further reading this book is packed with valuable tips and information practicing and aspiring engineers need to become effective writers. | Engineering Writing by Design Creating Formal Documents of Lasting Value Second Edition

GBP 48.99
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Industrial Design Engineering Inventive Problem Solving

Industrial Design Engineering Inventive Problem Solving

Designing new products and improving existing ones is a continual process. Industrial design engineering is an industrial engineering process applied to product designs that are to be manufactured through techniques of production operations. Excellent industrial design engineering programs are essential for the nation’s industry to succeed in selling useful and ecologically justifiable and usable products on a market flooded with goods and services. This unique text on industrial design engineering integrates basic knowledge insight and working methods from industrial engineering and product design subjects. Industrial Design Engineering: Inventive Problem Solving provides a combination of engineering thinking and design skills that give the researchers practitioners and students an excellent foundation for participation in product development projects and techniques for establishing and managing such projects. The design principles are presented around examples related to the designing of products goods and services. Case studies are developed around real problems and are based on the customer’s needs. | Industrial Design Engineering Inventive Problem Solving

GBP 44.99
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Introduction to Design Engineering Systematic Creativity and Management

Introduction to Design Engineering Systematic Creativity and Management

Designing engineering products – technical systems and/or transformation processes – requires a range of information know-how experience and engineering analysis to find an optimal solution. Creativity and open-mindedness can be greatly assisted by systematic design engineering which will ultimately lead to improved outcomes documentation and management. This book applies systematic and methodical conceptualization to abstract models of engineering systems. These can be be used as needed for developing candidate solutions. The recommended engineering design process should be able to support all levels of creative design engineering based on Engineering Design Science. This book incorporating several new insights surveys information about systematic methodical and intuitive design engineering thinking and reasoning as well as progressive product development. In addition to providing practical approaches it helps readers better understand the role of engineering in society. | Introduction to Design Engineering Systematic Creativity and Management

GBP 74.99
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Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning

Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning

As different parts of the globe deal with the challenges of coastal settlements in the Anthropcene landscape of increasing uncertainty the methods of design offer new strategies for developing and testing solutions. These complex problems require collaboration across disciplines with scientists planners engineers designers and others able to work together in finding new ways of living in coastal and changing landscapes. Sustainable Coastal Design and Planning is an outstanding collection of essays by leading practitioners and academics from across the globe on design and planning for coastal resilience in the face of climate change. It thoroughly explores the questions of coastal change at different scales and provides international case studies that illustrate diverse strategies in different geographies and cultures. Taken as a whole they canvas a broad palette of approaches and techniques for engaging these complex problems. Divided in two parts this book focuses on how to develop solutions through multidisciplinary design thinking and informs all stakeholders on specific methods and practices that will be needed to work effectively in this dynamic space.

GBP 44.99
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Introductory Elements of Analysis and Design in Chemical Engineering

Introductory Elements of Analysis and Design in Chemical Engineering

Introductory Elements of Analysis and Design in Chemical Engineering introduces readers to how chemical engineers think. It explains the application of analytical methods to phenomena important in chemical engineering and teaches analytical skills in the context of engineering design. A principle goal is to help readers reinforce their understanding of mathematics (especially calculus) and science as they are introduced to engineering thinking. Key Features: Emphasizes basic principles methods and problem solving at an elementary level Presents concepts in calculus chemistry and physics and methods of analysis on the basis of experiment and observation Connects experimental results to mathematical representations Provides numerous illustrative examples and builds on them to introduce processing and process flow diagrams and to place chemical engineering in an historical context Includes problems at the end of each chapter Aimed at readers beginning their studies in chemical engineering this textbook offers an approachable introduction to the principles of analysis and design in chemical engineering to help readers learn to think quantitatively and with a foundation of chemical engineering concepts.

GBP 59.99
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Product Design

Product Design

The discovery of market needs and the manufacture of a product to meet those needs are integral parts of the same process. Since most textbooks on new product development are written from either a marketing or an engineering perspective it is important for students to encounter these two aspects of product development together in a single text. Product Design: Practical Methods for the Systematic Development of New Products covers the entire new product development process from market research through concept design embodiment design design for manufacture and product launch. Systematic and practical in its approach the text offers both a structured management framework for product development and an extensive range of specific design methods. Chapters feature Design Toolkits that provide detailed guidance on systematic design methods present examples with familiar products and conclude with reviews of key concepts. This major text aims to turn the often haphazard and unstructured product design process into a quality-controlled streamlined and manageable procedure. It is ideal for students of engineering design and technology on their path to designing new products.

GBP 175.00
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Piping Design Handbook

Piping Design Handbook

This encyclopedic volume covers almost every phase of piping design - presenting procedures in a straightforward way. ;Written by 82 world experts in the field the Piping Design Handbook: details the basic principles of piping design; explores pipeline shortcut methods in an in-depth manner; and presents expanded rules of thumb for the piping design engineer. ;Generously illustrated with over 1575 figures display equations and tables the Piping Design Handbook is for chemical mechanical process and equipment design engineers.

GBP 59.99
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Design Synthesis Integrated Product and Manufacturing System Design

Design Synthesis Integrated Product and Manufacturing System Design

The biggest challenge in any marketplace is uncertainty. The major changes taking place in world economies politics and demographics has raised market uncertainty to its highest level in the past 50 years. However with new markets opening up in emerging and developing economies the opportunities have never been better. To compete in this challenging atmosphere product design/redesign and manufacturing must be integrated to produce better quality products faster and cheaper. Design Synthesis: Integrated Product and Manufacturing System Design provides a conceptual framework and methodologies to do just that. The book explains how to integrate innovative product design with the design of a batch manufacturing system. It covers the technical and social aspects of integration presents research and best practices and embeds integration within a framework of sustainable development. It covers the two methods for achieving design synthesis: integration and harmonisation. Product manufacturing system and social system architectures are integrated (united or combined to form a whole that is greater than the sum of the parts). The concurrent processes to design the architectures are harmonised (made compatible or coincident with one another). Wide in scope the book supplies a multi-disciplinary perspective and an extensive discussion on how to maintain integrity during the design process. The authors present research and practices that are difficult or almost impossible to find. They describe the different types of system lifecycles and include guidelines on how to select the appropriate lifecycle for a specific design situation. | Design Synthesis Integrated Product and Manufacturing System Design

GBP 52.99
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Engineering Capstone Design

Engineering Capstone Design

Structured with a practical approach Engineering Capstone Design guides engineering students to successfully manage capstone design projects. The book addresses the challenge of open-ended design projects often in a team-based format discussing team member roles communication and cooperation. It incorporates accreditation requirements and provides a modern framework for working with industry reinforced by the inclusion of case studies. Offers a structured process for capstone design responsive to ABET accreditation requirements Explains how to manage design projects under critical timelines and budgets Covers essential topics and steps in a capstone design sequence including defining conceiving presenting prototyping building testing and redesigning Considers industry perspectives as well as design competitions Includes case studies for a look into industry experience In addition to guiding engineering students conducting capstone design projects this book will also interest industry professionals who are engaged in product development or design problem-solving.

GBP 94.99
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Spacecraft System Design

Spacecraft System Design

Drawing on practical engineering experience and latest achievements of space technology in China this title investigates spacecraft system design and introduces several design methods based on the model development process. A well-established space engineering system with spacecraft as the core is integral to spaceflight activities and missions of entering exploring developing and utilizing outer space. This book expounds the key phases in the workflow of spacecraft development including task analysis overall plan design external interface configuration and assembly design and experimental verification. Subsystems that function as the nuclei of spacecraft design and important aspects in the model development process are then examined such as orbit design environmental influence factors reliability design dynamics analysis etc. In addition it also discusses the digital environment and methods to improve the efficiency of system design. The title will appeal to researchers students and especially professionals interested in spacecraft system design and space engineering.

GBP 145.00
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Electronic Design Automation for IC System Design Verification and Testing

Electronic Design Automation for IC System Design Verification and Testing

The first of two volumes in the Electronic Design Automation for Integrated Circuits Handbook Second Edition Electronic Design Automation for IC System Design Verification and Testing thoroughly examines system-level design microarchitectural design logic verification and testing. Chapters contributed by leading experts authoritatively discuss processor modeling and design tools using performance metrics to select microprocessor cores for integrated circuit (IC) designs design and verification languages digital simulation hardware acceleration and emulation and much more. New to This Edition: Major updates appearing in the initial phases of the design flow where the level of abstraction keeps rising to support more functionality with lower non-recurring engineering (NRE) costs Significant revisions reflected in the final phases of the design flow where the complexity due to smaller and smaller geometries is compounded by the slow progress of shorter wavelength lithography New coverage of cutting-edge applications and approaches realized in the decade since publication of the previous edition—these are illustrated by new chapters on high-level synthesis system-on-chip (SoC) block-based design and back-annotating system-level models Offering improved depth and modernity Electronic Design Automation for IC System Design Verification and Testing provides a valuable state-of-the-art reference for electronic design automation (EDA) students researchers and professionals.

GBP 74.99
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Facilities Design

Facilities Design

Dedicated to the proper design layout and location of facilities this definitive textbook outlines the main design and operational problems that occur in manufacturing and service systems explains the significance of facility design and planning problems and describes how mathematical models can be used to help analyze and solve them. Combining theory with practice this revised textbook presents state-of-the-art topics in materials handling warehousing and logistics along with real-world examples that emphasize the importance of modeling and analysis when determining a solution to complex facility design problems. Facilities Design Fifth Edition includes a balanced coverage of modeling as well as applications of layout materials handling and warehousing. It presents automated materials handling along with queuing queuing networks and basic simulation modeling. The new edition introduces new material that includes topics such as supply chain designing and management aggregate planning and transportation logistics and distribution. The new edition will continue to provide access to available software and data files as well as PowerPoint slides from the author’s own website www. facilitiesdesign. us. A solutions manual and figure slides are available for qualified textbooks adoptions. The book addresses facilities design and layout problems in manufacturing systems and covers layout logistics supply chain aggregate planning warehousing and materials handling. The new edition continues to explain the ins and outs of facility planning and design and is an ideal textbook for students and a reference for professionals.

GBP 105.00
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EMI Filter Design

EMI Filter Design

With today’s electrical and electronics systems requiring increased levels of performance and reliability the design of robust EMI filters plays a critical role in EMC compliance. Using a mix of practical methods and theoretical analysis EMI Filter Design Third Edition presents both a hands-on and academic approach to the design of EMI filters and the selection of components values. The design approaches covered include matrix methods using table data and the use of Fourier analysis Laplace transforms and transfer function realization of LC structures. This edition has been fully revised and updated with additional topics and more streamlined content. New to the Third Edition Analysis techniques necessary for passive filter realization Matrix method and transfer function analysis approaches for LC filter structure design A more hands-on look at EMI filters and the overall design process Through this bestselling book’s proven design methodology and practical application of formal techniques readers learn how to develop simple filter solutions. The authors examine the causes of common- and differential-mode noise and methods of elimination the source and load impedances for various types of input power interfaces and the load impedance aspect of EMI filter design. After covering EMI filter structures topologies and components they provide insight into the sizing of components and protection from voltage transients discuss issues that compromise filter performance and present a goal for a filter design objective. The text also includes a matrix method for filter design explains the transfer function method of LC structures and their equivalent polynomials and gives a circuit design example and analysis techniques. The final chapter presents packaging solutions of EMI filters.

GBP 94.99
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Design Engineer's Sourcebook

Design Engineer's Sourcebook

Design Engineer's Sourcebook provides a practical resource for engineers product designers technical managers students and others needing a design-oriented reference. This volume covers the mathematics mechanics and materials properties needed for analysis and design with numerous examples. A wide range of mechanical components and mechanisms are then covered with case studies interspersed to show real engineering practice. Manufacturing is then surveyed in the context of mechanical design. The book concludes with information on clutches brakes transmission and other topics important for vehicle engineering. Tables figures and charts are included for reference.

GBP 170.00
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Mechanical Engineering Design

Mechanical Engineering Design

Mechanical Engineering Design Third Edition strikes a balance between theory and application and prepares students for more advanced study or professional practice. Updated throughout it outlines basic concepts and provides the necessary theory to gain insight into mechanics with numerical methods in design. Divided into three sections the text presents background topics addresses failure prevention across a variety of machine elements and covers the design of machine components as well as entire machines. Optional sections treating special and advanced topics are also included. Features: Places a strong emphasis on the fundamentals of mechanics of materials as they relate to the study of mechanical design Furnishes material selection charts and tables as an aid for specific uses Includes numerous practical case studies of various components and machines Covers applied finite element analysis in design offering this useful tool for computer-oriented examples Addresses the ABET design criteria in a systematic manner Presents independent chapters that can be studied in any order Introduces optional MATLAB® solutions tied to the book and student learning resources Mechanical Engineering Design Third Edition allows students to gain a grasp of the fundamentals of machine design and the ability to apply these fundamentals to various new engineering problems.

GBP 110.00
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