October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
11h 42m
English
book
Engineering Design: A Project-Based Introduction, Fourth Edition
by Clive L. Dym, Patrick Little, Elizabeth Orwin
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INDEX
A
Aeronautical engineers, 100, 132, 135
Agency-loyalty, 255
Airline industry, 134
Airplane, 134
design, 5
prototypes of, 134
visible differences, 5
Air-quality issues, 216
Almost-but-not-quite-finished version, 27
Alternative designs, 31, 86, 95, 107, 111, 203
extension ladders, 18
American Beverage Company (ABC), 35, 56, 57
American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 123, 125, 164
wood safety requirements, 194
American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 215, 252
codes of ethics of, 253, 255, 262
American Society of Mechanical Engineers Code of Ethics, 215, 281, 288, 295, 296
Anisotropic material, 266
Application-specific integrated circuit, 136
Arm support, for CP-afflicted student, designing, 44–46
Arrow Impossibility Theorem, 55
ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Code, 22
Assembly drawings, 123, 124, 198, 209
B
Back-of-the-envelope, 59
model, 59
Balance laws, 171
Bardeen, John, 133
Battery-powered payload cart, modeling, 177
selection of characteristics
battery and battery operating, 181–183
motor and motor operating, 184–186
Beam, 168, 169, 188, 189, 190, 192
cross-sectional area, 168, 188
equations, 18
model, 191
Bell, Alexander Graham, 133
Best-of-class chart, 110
Beta testing, 27
chemically inert, 108
establishing metrics for, 61
Beverage-filled Mylar container, 133
B. F. Goodrich Company, 256
Big box retailer, 191
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