Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chapter 1: Engineering design -- Introduction -- Engineering design process -- Ways to think about the engineering design process -- Description of design process -- Considerations of a good design -- Computer-aided engineering -- Designing to codes and standards -- Design review -- Societal considerations in engineering design -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 2: Product-development process -- Introduction -- Product-development process -- Product and process cycles -- Organization for design -- Markets and marketing -- Technological innovation -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 3: Team behavior and tools -- Introduction -- What it means to be an effective team member -- Team leadership roles -- Team dynamics -- Effective team meetings -- Problem-solving tools -- Time management -- Planning and scheduling -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 4: Gathering information -- Gathering information -- Finding sources of design information -- Library sources -- Government sources of information -- Specialized sources for design and product development -- Professional societies and trade associations -- Codes and standards -- Patents and other intellectual property -- Company-centered information -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 5: Problem definition and need identification -- Introduction -- Problem definition -- Identifying customer needs -- Customer requirements -- Gathering information on existing products -- Establishing the engineering characteristics -- Quality function deployment -- Product design specification -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 6: Concept generation -- Introduction to creative thinking -- Creativity and problem solving -- Creative thinking methods -- Methods for design generation -- Functional decomposition and synthesis -- Morphological methods -- TRIZ: the theory of inventive problem solving -- WordTree method -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 7: Decision making and concept selection -- Introduction -- Behavioral aspects of decision making -- Evaluation processes -- Using models in evaluation -- Pugh chart -- Weighted decision matrix -- Analytic hierarchy process -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 8: Embodiment design -- Introduction -- Product architecture -- Steps in developing product architecture -- Configuration design -- Best practices for configuration design -- Parametric design -- Dimensions and tolerances -- Industrial design -- Human factors design -- Life-cycle design -- Prototyping and testing -- Design for X (DFX) -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 9: Detail design -- Introduction -- Activities and decisions in detail design -- Communicating design and manufacturing information -- Final design review -- Design and business activities beyond detail design -- Facilitating design and manufacturing with computer-based methods -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 10: Materials selection -- Introduction -- Performance requirements of materials -- The materials selection process -- Sources of information on material properties -- Cost of materials -- Overview of methods of materials selection -- Material performance indices -- Materials selection with decision matrices -- Selection with computer-aided databases -- Design examples -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 11: Design for manufacturing -- Role of manufacturing in design -- Manufacturing functions -- Classification of manufacturing processes -- Manufacturing process selection -- Design for manufacture (DFM) -- Design for assembly (DFA) -- Role of standardization in DFMA -- Mistake-proofing -- Early estimation of manufacturing cost -- Process specific DFMA guidelines -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 12: Cost evaluation -- Introduction -- Categories of costs -- The cost of ownership -- Manufacturing cost -- Overhead cost -- Activity-based costing -- Methods of developing cost estimates -- Make-buy decision -- Product profit model -- Refinements to cost analysis methods -- Design to cost -- Value analysis in costing -- Manufacturing cost models -- Life cycle costing -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 13: Risk, reliability, and safety -- Introduction -- Probabilistic approach to design -- Reliability theory -- Design for reliability -- Failure mode and effects analysis -- Defects and failure modes -- Design for safety -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Chapter 14: Quality, robust design, and optimization -- The concept of total quality -- Quality control and assurance -- Statistical process control -- Quality improvement -- Process capability -- Taguchi method -- Robust design -- Optimization methods -- Design optimization -- Summary -- New terms and concepts -- Bibliography -- Problems and exercises -- Appendices -- Author and subject indexes.

"Preface to sixth edition the sixth edition of Engineering Design continues the reorganization and expansion of topics introduced in the fourth edition. Major reorganization of topics to improve flow of information and increase learning have been made in Chapter 3, Problem and Need Identification; Chapter 6, Concept Generation; and Chapter 7, Decision Making and Concept Selection. A new, progressive example has been introduced and is continued through these three chapters. A new Chapter 10, Design for Sustainability and the Environment, has been added. The book continues its tradition of being more oriented to material selection, design for manufacturing, and design for quality than other broad-based design texts"-- Provided by publisher.