Engineering Design Process Engineering Design Process Engineering Design Process
This book is written as an introductory course in design. Students’ technical capabilities
are assumed to be at the level of college physics and calculus. For students with advanced
technical capabilities the analysis part in the design sequence could be emphasized.
This book consists of eleven chapters. Chapter 1 is an overview of the design steps
and serves as an introduction to the book. Chapter 2 presents a few design tools that
designers must master prior to the design process. Some of these tools serve as an introduction
to courses that students will encounter in future course work. Chapters 3 through
9 present the steps of the design process. The author is aware that the sequence of these
steps can be changed according to instructor preference. Instructors can alter the presentation
sequence without having to change the presentation material. Chapter 10 discusses
issues relating to the design cost. Chapter 11 presents a list of project descriptions that can
serve as an entry point to instructors’ assignments. In this second edition we have integrated
design labs with the chapters. The purpose of these labs is to create design activities
that help students, especially freshmen and sophomores, to adjust to working in teams.
The first few of these labs are geared toward team building. It is anticipated that instructors
may want to include other activities in their design classes.
The authors wish to thank all colleagues and students who helped in producing this
book, including Dr. Adnan Al-Bashir who provided Lab 5: Project Management. Students
are encouraged to submit their comments and suggestions to the authors. The authors also
wish to thank the following reviewers for their helpful suggestions: Thomas R. Grimm,
Michigan Technological University; Peter Jones, Auburn University; Peter Eliot Weiss,
University of Toronto; and Steven C. York, Virginia Tech
Engineering Design Process
Second Edition
Yousef Haik
University of North Carolina—Greensboro
Tamer Shahin
Kings College London,
This book is written as an introductory course in design. Students’ technical capabilities
are assumed to be at the level of college physics and calculus. For students with advanced
technical capabilities the analysis part in the design sequence could be emphasized.
This book consists of eleven chapters. Chapter 1 is an overview of the design steps
and serves as an introduction to the book. Chapter 2 presents a few design tools that
designers must master prior to the design process. Some of these tools serve as an introduction
to courses that students will encounter in future course work. Chapters 3 through
9 present the steps of the design process. The author is aware that the sequence of these
steps can be changed according to instructor preference. Instructors can alter the presentation
sequence without having to change the presentation material. Chapter 10 discusses
issues relating to the design cost. Chapter 11 presents a list of project descriptions that can
serve as an entry point to instructors’ assignments. In this second edition we have integrated
design labs with the chapters. The purpose of these labs is to create design activities
that help students, especially freshmen and sophomores, to adjust to working in teams.
The first few of these labs are geared toward team building. It is anticipated that instructors
may want to include other activities in their design classes.
The authors wish to thank all colleagues and students who helped in producing this
book, including Dr. Adnan Al-Bashir who provided Lab 5: Project Management. Students
are encouraged to submit their comments and suggestions to the authors. The authors also
wish to thank the following reviewers for their helpful suggestions: Thomas R. Grimm,
Michigan Technological University; Peter Jones, Auburn University; Peter Eliot Weiss,
University of Toronto; and Steven C. York, Virginia Tech
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