Engineering Design: A Project Based Introduction

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.

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 a high level design class, this would be a great reference to use.