Description Engineering Design, 6th edition, continues its tradition of presenting an in-depth foundation of the engineering design process. In addition, it emphasizes material selection and design for manufacture, with the overarching goal of design quality. The teaching of the engineering design process has been made more coordinated by reorganizing some of the chapters. The text is intended for use in either a junior or senior engineering design course as well as a graduate-level course on the design process.
Sensitive to the cost of textbooks, we have significantly reduced the length of the text using the McGraw-Hill Online Learning Center (OLC) (www.mhhe.com/dieter6e). The OLC is home to some of the more specialized chapters, such as Design for the Environment and Economic Decision Making.
The book offers a detailed introduction to the design process in chapters 1-9 and follows up with expanded coverage of specialty design topics in chapters 10-14. In this edition, additional content has been provided in chapters 15- 18, available on the OLC.
Integrating independent methods and tools for mechanical design into a powerful process
Expanded discussion of design tools like benchmarking, total quality management, QFD, and functional decomposition and synthesis
Abundant literature references and website referrals
Changes to the Sixth Edition
New coverage of information literacy
Introduction to WordTree Method for conceptual design
Description of biomimicry in design generation methods
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Engineering Design Chapter 2 Product-Development Process
Chapter 3 Team Behavior and Tools
Chapter 4 Gathering Information
Chapter 5 Problem Definition and Need Identification
Chapter 6 Concept Generation
Chapter 7 Decision Making and Concept Selection
Chapter 8 Embodiment Design
Chapter 9 Detail Design
Chapter 10 Materials Selection
Chapter 11 Design for Manufacturing
Chapter 12 Cost Evaluation
Chapter 13 Risk, Reliability, and Safety
Chapter 14 Quality, Robust Design, and Optimization
Chapter 15 Design for Sustainability and the Environment
Chapter 16 Design with Materials
Chapter 17 Economic Decision Making
Chapter 18 Legal and Ethical Issues in Engineering Design
GEORGE E. DIETER is Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland. The author received his B.S. Met.E. degree from Drexel University and his D.Sc. degree from Carnegie Mellon University. After a stint in industry with the DuPont Engineering Research Laboratory, he became head of the Metallurgical Engineering Department at Drexel University, where he later became Dean of Engineering. Professor Dieter later joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon University as Professor of Engineering and Director of the Processing Research Institute. He moved to the University of Maryland in 1977 as professor of Mechanical Engineering and Dean of Engineering, serving as dean until 1994.
Professor Dieter is a fellow of ASM International, TMS, AAAS, and ASEE. He has received the education award from ASM, TMS, and SME, as well as the Lamme Medal, the highest award of ASEE. He has been chair of the Engineering Deans Council, and president of ASEE. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He also is the author ofMechanical Metallurgy, published by McGraw-Hill, now in its third edition.
LINDA C. SCHMIDT is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland. Dr. Schmidt’s general research interests and publications are in the areas of mechanical design theory and methodology, design generation systems for use during conceptual design, design rationale capture, and effective student learning on engineering project design teams.
Dr. Schmidt completed her doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University with research in grammar-based generative design. She holds B.S. and M.S. degrees from Iowa State University for work in Industrial Engineering. Dr. Schmidt is a recipient of the 1998 U.S. National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Award for generative conceptual design. She co-founded RISE, a summer research experience that won the 2003 Exemplary Program Award from the American College Personnel Association’s Commission for Academic Support in Higher Education. Dr. Schmidt was awarded the American Society of Engineering Education’s 2008 Merryfield Design Award.
Dr. Schmidt is active in engineering design theory research and teaching engineering design to third- and fourth-year undergraduates and graduate students in mechanical engineering. She has coauthored a text on engineering decision-making, two editions of a text on product development, and a team-training curriculum for faculty using engineering student project teams. Dr. Schmidt was the guest editor of the Journal of Engineering Valuation & Cost Analysis and has served as an Associate Editor of the ASMEJournal of Mechanical Design. Dr. Schmidt is a member of ASME, SME, and ASEE.