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In this groundbreaking new text, Jay Brockman helps students acquire the engineering mindset, providing them with the core knowledge and skills all engineers need to succeed.   Through clear explanations and real-world examples—like how to provide water for rural communities in developing nations—Introduction to Engineering teaches students to see the world through the eyes of an engineer, looking at how engineers apply science and technology to solve problems facing society today. ... Read more

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good
It was in great condition and I am satisfied with my purchase. Only problem was that it took a long time for the package to arrive. ... Read more

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Building on the success of previous editions, this book continues to provide engineers with a strong understanding of the three primary types of materials and composites, as well as the relationships that exist between the structural elements of materials and their properties. The relationships among processing, structure, properties, and performance components for steels, glass-ceramics, polymer fibers, and silicon semiconductors are explored throughout the chapters. The discussion of the construction of crystallographic directions in hexagonal unit cells is expanded. At the end of each chapter, engineers will also find revised summaries and new equation summaries to reexamine key concepts. ... Read more

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Great Book, Arrived exactly as described
I was extremely happy with the seller. Book was in perfect condition, and arrived earlier than expected! Great seller to work with, would definitely buy from them again!

Useful Supplement
This textbook on materials science has thus far been a good and helpful supplement to my chemical engineering materials course. The concise explanations and full color illustrations have really helped me to fully grasp the material (no pun intended).

Materials Science and Engineering book
Book was the one advertised in the picture, arrived in a reasonable amount of time, in great condition. Overall a successful transaction.

Should not be part of the course work for someone persuing a materials science degree
Don't waste your money. William D. Callister has rewritten this book into many editions, some of which occur under different titles.The price for this book also seems to be increasing disproportionately with the addition of valuable information (the book is just overpriced).I would recommend this book to anyone perusing a degree other then materials science.The book does provide a good amount of breadth and is a good reference if this is the only materials science course work that you will ever do.If you are a materials scientist then taking a class with this book as the primary text will only result in redundancy.The book is an overview of processing and properties that doesn't provide enough background theory and explanation to develop an understanding of materials science.I used this book in my sophomore year in my very first materials science class and it is my understanding that most other materials science programs use this book in the same fashion.The catch of the book is that until you have studied thermodynamics, crystallography, and mechanical properties in your later years of study this book only forces you to memorize rules, properties, and theories without understanding why or how such things exist.The book couldn't even be called a top down approach to materials science because it doesn't go down at all.All of the information in this book will be reiterated in later course work using other texts that will actually help you to understand in a more complete way the concepts of materials science.

Material Science and Engineering
The book was in excellent condition and I paida good price. However, it was not what I thought it was - being a question and answer style college book. However, that was my fault.

Still glad I bought it though ... Read more

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Mathematics for Mechanical Engineers gives mechanical engineers convenient access to the essential problem solving tools that they use each day. It covers applications employed in many different facets of mechanical engineering, from basic through advanced, to ensure that you will easily find answers you need in this handy guide.For the engineer venturing out of familiar territory, the chapters cover fundamentals like physical constants, derivatives, integrals, Fourier transforms, Bessel functions, and Legendre functions. For the experts, it includes thorough sections on the more advanced topics of partial differential equations, approximation methods, and numerical methods, often used in applications. The guide reviews statistics for analyzing engineering data and making inferences, so professionals can extract useful information even with the presence of randomness and uncertainty. The convenient Mathematics for Mechanical Engineers is an indispensable summary of mathematics processes needed by engineers. ... Read more

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Alan Darbyshire's best-selling text book provides five-star high quality content to a potential audience of 13,000 engineering students. It explains the most popular specialist units of the Mechanical Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering and Operations & Maintenance Engineering pathways of the new 2010 BTEC National Engineering syllabus. This challenging textbook also features contributions from specialist lecturers, ensuring that no stone is left unturned. Two extra new downloadable chapters will also be available: Principles and Applications of Fluid Mechanics and Principles and Applications of Thermodynamics.

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Winner of the Best New Undergraduate Textbook Award from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association of Publishers! Exploring Engineering was developed to meet the need for a better way to introduce incoming engineering students to the fundamental concepts at the heart of all engineering disciplines. It was also created to show students in a vivid way the great array of opportunities and possibilities of today's engineering fields-from classical mechanical engineering to bioengineering and mechatronics. This is the first text to introduce nearly all of the major engineering areas, and to do so with a strong interdisciplinary case study approach. This approach better prepares and enables students to draw upon knowledge not only from their own particular field of expertise, but also from related or even distantly related engineering and technical and scientific fields, allowing them to become more versatile within their future employment.

Exploring Engineering is flexible enough to offer a variety of approaches to the introduction of modern engineering for new students, while still providing the most important essentials that hold all engineering disciplines together, particularly the mathematical, quantitative basis of engineering as well asthe modern computer tools that make today's engineering design so efficient and accurate.

* Introduces the fundamental physical, chemical, and material foundations for all engineering work, including motion, force, conservation of energy and matter
* Explains the workings of simple electrical circuits, computer logic, control and mechatronics, stress/strain diagrams, bioengineering, stoichiometry
* Offers applications of engineering ethics-using an extended case study metaphor: the modern automobile
* Provides simple data spreadsheets and other analytical "tools of the trade" to introduce students to the concepts of theoretical and of empirical engineering
* Presents the engineering design process using examples and assignments specifically aimed at helping to guide students and instructor through a hands-on design project
* A companion web site will offer a complete solutions manual and a number of suggested head-to-head competitions for a final design project ... Read more

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Introduces conceptual design methods and project management tools through description, example, and case study. Two design projects are consistently drawn upon to illustrate the design methods and management tools. Also covers important topic of reporting the results of a design project and provides useful insights into team behaviors and dynamics. ... Read more

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This info is all available for free online
I felt it was a waste of money.It was required for a class that I took. I didn't find anything that wasn't common sense or available for free online.It gives a very general overview and doesn't go into specific methods for design much.

Book in great condition
The book was advertised as great condition. It certainly was! I am happy I purchased it through Amazon.

Agem for lecturers and students
Covers topics in a highly interesting and real-world manner. The authors' teaching and engineering experience has been used to full effect. Readers will like the straightforward explanations, the many examples, and the student-friendly content. A good buy.

Great Engineering Book, but not as a Textbook
This book is definitely vital to beginning engineers and people who are just interested in the topic. It explains many of the intracacies of project design and gives a complete process of how to complete an actual engineering project. Most likely this will be used as a textbook in universities, but should be accompanied with another book that more fully explains some of the terms. It is best used as a reference while working on a project or for later design classes. There is simply to much information to base tests on it. That said, the book is very thorough in explaining how to create a schedule, the various diagrams, charts and table, planning, the relationship between client, user and designer and how to complete the project on time and sucessfully. If you were not required to take an intro to engineering design class and are faced with ahigh level design class, this would be a great reference to use. ... Read more

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Introduces basic ways we use engineering through such projects as making a wind tunnel, building a truss, and testing the action of friction under various conditions. ... Read more

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Presenting the fundamental tools of experimentation that are currently used by engineers and scientists, Measurement and Data Analysis for Engineering and Science, Second Edition covers the basics of experimentation, hardware of experiments, and methods of data analysis. It also offers historical perspectives throughout. Updating and reorganizing its popular predecessor, this second edition makes the text much easier to follow and enhances the presentation with electronic material.

New to the Second Edition

• Order of chapters now reflects the sequence of topics usually included in an undergraduate course
• Asterisked sections denote material not typically covered formally during lecture in an introductory undergraduate course
• More than 150 new problems, bringing the total to over 420 problems
• Supplementary website that provides unit conversions, learning objectives, review crossword puzzles and solutions, differential equation derivations, laboratory exercise descriptions, MATLAB^® sidebars with M-files, and homework data files

Thorough and up to date, this edition continues to help students gain a fundamental understanding of the tools of experimentation. It discusses basic concepts related to experiments, measurement system components and responses, data analysis, and effective communication of experimental findings.

Ancillary materials for instructors are available on a CD-ROM and a solutions manual is available for qualifying instructors. More data available on www.nd.edu/~pdunn/www.text/measurements.html

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Terrible book
From a student perspective, this book is harder to read than a foreign language. It is full of equations that have no practical examples and you're stuck with the homework problems that you can't figure out. The examples given in the book do not correlate with the homework problems and I spend most of my time on the internet or sitting in my teacher's room trying to figure out what the book wants. It appears to be a book that assumes you remember everything that you ever learned in all of your classes. The book is too small and it seems that more information could have been included to help students better remember how to find certain values for a set of equations relating to a signal. If you can talk your teacher into excluding this book from the class and just teaching the concepts you'll be better off.

Just What I Need
For many years I have taught a graduate/undergraduate pair of courses, EE5811 and EE 5821 in biomedical instrumentation and modeling. The central challenge each semester is an idependent student investigation from concept to method to outcomes. Peer reviewed papers are the principal information sources and this text has a remarkable sense for filling in the gaps for a wide range of engineering and life science curricula.
Congratulatins to EMBS magazine, vol26,number6,Nov/Dec 2007, pp 9-11
Jim Holte Associate Professor ECE Dept. U of Minnesota ... Read more

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During the last decade, the state of the art in Earthquake Engineering Design and Analysis has made significant steps towards a more rationale analysis of structures. Scientists have long recognized that earthquake design is guided by displacements and deformations rather than forces. However due to the historical background of structural engineers in static analyses, effects of earthquake on structures have been viewed as forces acting on the structures. All presently available design building codes are developed along these lines. Our knowledge of ground motion characteristics, earthquake geotechnical engineering, structural behaviour (design and numerical analyses) and model tests have advanced to a point where it is possible to anticipate a significant move from force based design approaches to displacements based design approaches. Although displacement based analyses constitute the kernel of most research programs, they have not yet been incorporated in the state of practice.

The purpose of the book is to review the fundamentals of displacement based methods, starting from engineering seismology, earthquake geotechnical engineering, to focus on design, analysis and testing of structures with emphasis on buildings and bridges.

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An overall view of the vast spectrum of knowledge needed by practicing rocket scientists and engineers, Introduction to Rocket Science and Engineering presents the history and basics of rocket theory, design, experimentation, testing, and applications. It covers an array of fields, from advanced mathematics, chemistry, and physics to logistics, systems engineering, and politics.

The text begins with a discussion on the discovery and development of rockets as well as the basic principles governing rockets and rocket science. It then explains why rockets are needed from economic, philosophical, and strategic standpoints and looks at why the physics of the universe forces us to use rockets to complete certain activities. Exploring how rockets work, the author covers the concepts of thrust, momentum, impulse, and the rocket equation, along with the rocket engine, its components, and the physics involved in the generation of the propulsive force. He also presents several different types of rocket engines and discusses the testing of rocket components, subsystems, systems, and complete products. The final chapter stresses the importance of rocket scientists and engineers to think of the unusual, unlikely, and unthinkable when dealing with the complexities of rocketry.

Taking students through the process of becoming a rocket scientist or engineer, this text supplies a hands-on understanding of the many facets of rocketry. It provides the ideal foundation for students to continue on their journey in rocket science and engineering.

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Direct and simple, the way it should be
I have recently bought this book in order to learn some basics about rockets, expecting a far more simple text. After reading the whole book, I cannot say I have missed part of my pretty precious spare's time. This is, indeed, one of the most concise and pretty accurate applied's science book I have ever read, and I have read a few now. Don't be afraid of the book's thickness, as someone else stated before, it treats tons of differents fields involved in rocket's design and operation. You should be used to basics physics, and general engineering knowledge to get the point the book tries to reach.

Simple in concept and expected to be more a student's text book than a hard science's book, if you have technical knowledge and have little idea about rockets, this book covers almost everything to design one.

There are, of course, tons of other issues not covered in this book, like pump's cavitation, special equipments for cryo requirements, and so on, but, again, I should state that the latest isn't possible without the previous.

I have enjoyed a lot this book, and I am just a "freak" who enjoys technology in general, including hard science books. Considering that, I highly recommend that book, and it is worth the money it cost.

Remember one thing, and it is the book's title. As it states, it is an introduction, so expect basics on topic. This way, book fully satisfied the title, and surpasses it by far.

A broad but interesting overview
This book is an overview. There is no way you can go into depth on the material needed in 300 pages. This is no popular science book either. You need to be familiar with astronomy, physics (mechanics in particular), advanced math through calculus and differential equations, and even some chemistry to get the most from this book. It does try to balance some pretty good explanations with some examples, and there are exercises at the end of each chapter. Don't expect to be an expert at the end of the book. In fact, I'd say believing that you've been bombarded with enough material that you feel somewhat lost would be a good sign. The point of the book is to give you a feel for the kinds of calculations and sciences that are involved in rocket design so that you can decide if studying these topics in depth is for you. The book does show the author's love of the subject as he discusses motivations and even the kind of "dreamer" that the budding rocket scientist should be. You shouldn't be the type that looks at every problem and sees only limitations. Recommended for the upper level undergraduate physicist or engineer.

The table of contents for this book is hard to come by so I show that next.

1.What Are Rockets?
The History of Rockets
Rockets of the Modern Era
Rocket Anatomy and Nomenclature
Why Are Rockets Needed?
Missions and Payloads
Trajectories
Orbits
Orbit Changes and Maneuvers
Ballistic Missile Trajectories
2.How Do Rockets Work?
Thrust
Specific Impulse
Weight Flow Rate
Tsiolkovsky's Rocket Equation
Staging
Rocket Dynamics, Guidance, and Control
3.How Do Rocket Engines Work?
The Basic Rocket Engine
Thermodynamic Expansion and the Rocket Nozzle
Exit Velocity
Rocket Engine Area Ratio and Lengths
Rocket Engine Design Example
Are All Rockets the Same?
Solid Rocket Engines
Liquid Propellant Rocket Engines
Hybrid Rocket Engines
Electric Rocket Engines
Nuclear Rocket Engines
Solar Rocket Engines
Photon-Based Engines
4.How Do We Test Rockets?
The Systems Engineering Process and Rocket Development
Measuring Thrust
Pressure Vessel Tests
Shake 'n Bake Tests
Drop and Landing Tests
Environment Tests
Destructive Tests
Modeling and Simulation
Roll-Out Test
Flight Tests
5.Are We Thinking Like Rocket Scientists and Engineers?
Weather Cocking
Fuel Sloshing
Propellant Vorticity
Tornadoes and Overpasses
Flying Foam Debris
Monocoque
The Space Mission Analysis and Design Process
Back to the Moon
Suggested Reading for Rocket Scientists and Engineers
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This affordable, softcover book is for the course that non-electrical engineers take to learn what they need to know about electrical engineering; it is typically a survey of the major parts of the EE curriculum. This text better fits the Electrical Engineering course, which is typically one semester. New material, more examples and applications, and new material particularly in the sections on electronic devices and computers update the text. ... Read more

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Introduction to Electrical Engineering
This is a great book for starting Electrical Engineers.It covers the fundamental theories that governs the study of electrical circuits.Unfortunately, book was never received from seller nor refund.It is a shame that such occurences happen to begin with.Thank you. ... Read more

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In this book John Bird introduces engineering science through examples rather than theory - enabling students to develop a sound understanding of engineering systems in terms of the basic scientific laws and principles. The book includes 575 worked examples, 1200 problems, 440 multiple choice questions (answers provided), and the maths that students will require is also provided in a separate section within the book.

Throughout the book assessment papers are provided that are ideal for use as tests or homework. These are the only problems where answers are not provided in the book. Full worked solutions are available to lecturers only as a free download from our textbook website.

* A student-friendly text that does not require any background in engineering
* Learn by example: over 1,200 problems, 575 worked examples, 440 multiple-choice questions (answers provided)
* Includes assessment papers - worked solutions in a free lecturer's manual ... Read more

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An up-to-date and practical reference book on piping engineering and stress analysis, this book emphasizes three main concepts: using engineering common sense to foresee a potential piping stress problem, performing the stress analysis to confirm the problem, and lastly, optimizing the design to solve the problem. Systematically, the book proceeds from basic piping flexibility analyses, spring hanger selections, and expansion joint applications, to vibration stress evaluations and general dynamic analyses. Emphasis is placed on the interface with connecting equipment such as vessels, tanks, heaters, turbines, pumps and compressors. Chapters dealing with discontinuity stresses, special thermal problems and cross-country pipelines are also included. The book is ideal for piping engineers, piping designers, plant engineers, and mechanical engineers working in the power, petroleum refining, chemical, food processing, and pharmaceutical industries. It will also serve as a reference for engineers working in building and transportation services. It can be used as an advance text for graduate students in these fields. ... Read more

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Very detailed, but easy to read
The Pengs' book is very detailed and easy to read, an unusual (but welcomed) combination.All equations have legends and the book's index includes a seven-page nomenclature reference.An engineering degree is not required to understand the overviews, but familiarity with piping components and piping design is necessary to fully understand the material. ... Read more

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This revised third edition of a bestselling metallurgy text examines the behaviour of materials under stress and their reaction to a variety of hostile environments. It covers the entire scope of mechanical metallurgy, from an understanding of the continuum description of stress and strain, through crystalline and defect mechanisms of flow and fracture, and on to a consideration of major mechanical property tests and the basic metalworking process. It has been updated throughout, SI units have been added, and end-of-chapter study questions are included. ... Read more

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A good book
This book was in good physical condition and was shipped to me within a few days.But some of the pages do have highlighter marks, so it's not perfect.

One of the best textbooks I've used
This book contains tons of useful information on almost everything regarding mechanical properties of materials. It isn't overly dense with formulas and derivations, nor is it overly simplified. The explanations are extremely well-written and the book is well-organized; clearly separating theory from practical applications (nearly half the book is about processing and testing). Examples are well-integrated into the text, not set off to the side.

Very conceptual and useful to metallurgy understanding
This book brings very important principles of metallurgy and moreover usefull concepts to design products based on the worthy knowledge presented. Particularly the chapters about Fatigue, Fracture and Stresses Calculations in my opinion are of such importance to design robust products. The author is very didatic which makes the reading pleasant, of easy learning and application.

An excellent book
This book is a good one on metallurgy. It's loaded as it taps into several references. It's discourse is simple to the beginner and a good summary to the pro. I see it on the shelves of some academics I visit.

Metallurgical Excellence
If you are a Mechanical, Materials, or Industrial Engineer, you will need this book somewhere down the road. I am currently in graduate studies, and virtually every professor in those three faculties has a well used copy. It is well written and very complete. I shopped around looking for a used copy, but most of them are used so often they're almost worn out. ... Read more

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Solve any mechanical engineering problem quickly and easily

This trusted compendium of calculation methods delivers fast, accurate solutions to the toughest day-to-day mechanical engineering problems.You will find numbered, step-by-step procedures for solving specific problems together with worked-out examples that give numerical results for the calculation.

• Covers: Power Generation; Plant and Facilities Engineering; Environmental Control; Design Engineering
• New Edition features methods for automatic and digital control; alternative and renewable energy sources; plastics in engineering design

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Light on design calculation
I bought this book at Amazon.com.It is a thick book with lots of calculations.Although it's divided into four sections - power generation, plant and facilities engineering, environmental control, and design engineering, the pages covering design engineering are less than one third of the total book.The examples used in the book are not very well organized.Overall, it's not a very helpful handbook for me.

Nuts
In regards to its treatment of heat exchanger design:
(1)There is no way that the temperature change affected is inverse to tube length.(2)The temperature change affected can easily be greater than the temperature gradient if: (i)it is truely counter-current as in single-pass on both tube and shell side, and(ii) the heat flows, Cp*m, are matched so that there is not a pinch. ... Read more

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Written by pioneers in the study and analysis of very high cycle fatigue this text brings together the most recent findings on gigacycle fatigue phenomena, focusing on improving the reliability and performance of key engine and machine components. This reference reflects the explosion of new concepts, testing methods, and data on very high cycle fatigue and collects the latest analytical methods and results from renowned authorities on the subject. The authors showcase recently developed technologies for improving performance and prevent fatigue in long-life cars, aircraft engines, high-speed trains, commercial power generators, and ships. ... Read more

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This survey of thermal systems engineering combines coverage of thermodynamics, fluid flow, and heat transfer in one volume. Developed by leading educators in the field, this book sets the standard for those interested in the thermal-fluids market. Drawing on the best of what works from market leading texts in thermodynamics (Moran), fluids (Munson) and heat transfer (Incropera), this book introduces thermal engineering using a systems focus, introduces structured problem-solving techniques, and provides applications of interest to all engineers. ... Read more

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Excellent Book!!
My teacher was sucky, so I relied very heavily on the textbook. Also, having the solutions manual helped a great deal. I was able to purchase the solutions manual by emailing zmanual(at)gmail(dot)com. Best of luck.

Introduction to Thermal Systems Engineering
Everything was great.The only thing was they didn't tell my anything about if they shipped it or not.So I had no idea when it was coming and could not track the shipment.

Perfect for introduction to thermal systems
This book is written by the leaders in each of the three areas of thermal systems engineering and it really shows.Keep in mind this is an introductory book and does not cover every part of each topic, but for an introductory class it is perfect!Concepts are easy to understand with very good supporting examples.I would highly recommend this book to anyone needing a brush up or a good introduction to thermal systems. ... Read more

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This title offers coverage in all four skills with up-to-date technical content. ... Read more

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Dieter's Engineering Design 4/e represents a major update of this classic textbook for senior design courses. As in previous editions, Engineering Design provides a broader overview of topics than most design texts and contains much more prescriptive guidance on how to carry out design. Dieter focuses on material selection as well as how to implement the design process.

Engineering Design provides the senior mechanical engineering students with a realistic understanding of the design process. It is written from the viewpoint that design is the central activity of the engineering profession, and it is more concerned with developing attitudes and approaches than in presenting design techniques and tools.

Engineering Design provides a realistic understanding of the engineering design process.The book presents in detail (Chapters 1 through 9) an eight-step process that gives prescriptive guidance to the student from problem definition through detail design.Chapters 10 through 16 present more specific treatment of speciality topics (design for X).The text is intended to be used in either a junior or senior engineering course with an integrated hands-on design project. ... Read more

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Product Development textbook
I appreciate that it is a text that covers the design process for product design and development. Wish it covered a little more in depth in some areas but it is overall pretty good. ... Read more