Engineering for Industrial Designers and Inventors

Preface

We are all impatient. We want everything at our fingertips on demand. What this book does is cut to the core elements of mechanical engineering without interrupting your study with too much noise. The theory is rigorous, the math is not. I prefer qualitative descriptions and analogies over math. The goal of this book is to make mechanical engineering a real tool in your inventive, creative tool belt. I want you to understand basic concepts that can inform the copious decisions required when designing a real object. Reading a book is certainly a test of patience, and I admire your foray into this walk together. Your time is under assault by many things. Your slices of open time are presented with enticing tweets and games so that your time is not linear and logical but rather a polymodal blend of grand endeavors and tiny treats. Where is the time for reflection?

Death by Video

Drunken eyes seducing minds Flashing fluorescence digging

Synapses fire on and off on and off on and off

Eyes blink only for water Gently cooling heated sight Washing across digital rough As the synapses fire on and off

Chant a dirge or scumble color While watching forced slumber

Noises zipping, busy, fuzzy dots Blinking, blanching, watching plots

Jam the mind in a keyboard crack Waiting on your electro-sausage.

Synapses. fire. on. and. off. on. and. off. on. and. off.

Thomas Ask (Excelsior Review, Issue No. 5, April 2015)

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