Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction, Fourth Edition

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

A book like this does not get written without the support, advice, criticism, and help of many people. We continue to be grateful to the many colleagues and friends who helped us bring the first three editions to fruition, and our thanks were detailed in those prior editions in 1997, 2004, and 2009.

For this fourth edition, we want to add the following thanks to:

The HMC E4 student design teams that developed the design work products that we used as a case study and as illustrative design examples. Those teams and their projects are listed in our bibliography as (Ahmad et al. 2007), (Attarian et al. 2007), (Best et al. 2007), (Both et al. 2000), (Chan et al. 2000), (Feagan et al. 2000), and (Saravanos et al. 2000).

Miriam Dym for designing the cover for this fourth edition.

Dan Sayre of John Wiley & Sons, our editor and steadfast champion, and Jessica Knecht, his very able, very helpful, and always gracious assistant.

R. Erik Spjut, our colleague at HMC, for providing several drawings and some materials on preliminary design and insights into practical building.

Bob Welsh, Vice President of Engineering of DeWalt Tools, for providing the exploded graphic of the DeWalt DW21008K corded power drill.

Michael A. Sandford, President of Technical Documentation Center of Arizona, for permission to reprint several figures in Appendix B.

The American Society of Civil Engineers, for permission to reprint portions of ASCE's Code of Ethics.

The American Society of Mechanical ...