INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING DESIGN

This book is the seventh edition of the ninth textbook in this series dealing with Introduction to Engineering Design. , Jim Dally, working with College House Enterprises and faculty members in the Clark School of Engineering, has prepared eight previous books in this series for the first-year engineering students of the University of Maryland at College Park. , Several other Colleges of Engineering have adopted one or more of the books in this series to introduce design and engineering skills for their first or second year students. , The design, build and testing of a hovercraft model, described in Book 9, is such an interesting and challenging project that this is the seventh year we have used it (twelve previous semesters) with approximately 7,000 students.  , The textbook is used to support the students during a semester-long project where they design and build a hovercraft.  , Content ,is covered with reading assignments and students use the text as a reference document for independent study. , Exercises are provided at the end of each chapter. The book contains 17 chapters to present the many topics that first year engineering students should understand as they proceed through a significant portion of the product realization process. An Introduction to the course and to the textbook is provided in Chapter 1 to alert the students to the demands of the course and to introduce them to the problems frequently encountered by other students in designing, building and testing a model of a hovercraft. , Information on team skills and the importance of product development is covered in Chapters 2 and 3. , Several hovercraft missions are also presented in Chapter 3, together with a description of the design concepts involved in hovercraft development. Design of a hovercraft enables instructors with an opportunity to integrate a wide spectrum of knowledge about many engineering topics. , The student&rsquo,s han