Introduction to engineering design
By: N.L. Svensson
Publisher: Pitman
Published: 1976
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780273007173
Subjects: Engineering design
Description: "Introduction to engineering design is written for the student in the early stages of a degree or diploma course. The author treats engineering design as 'the central theme of all professional engineering activity' and as 'primarily a strategy of creative problem-solving.' The book is arranged in accordance with the progressive logic of the design process. The material presented covers a very wide area, since engineering is concerned with the total situation embracing science and society. The generalized approach, avoiding excessive reference to any specific branch of engineering, highlights the fact that the methodology of engineering problem-solving applies over the whole spectrum of design activity"--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Originally published: Randwick : New South Wales University Press, 1974.
Table of contents: title: 1. Science, society and engineering; title: 2. Procedures of engineering design; title: 3. Origin and identification of engineering design problems; title: 4. Creativity in engineering design; title: 5. Systems design; title: 6. Technical analysis; title: 7. Economic analysis; title: 8. Human factors; title: 9. Legal factors; title: 10. Decision making in design; title: 11. Implementation of design decisions.