Previous edition published 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

General. Essential transferable skills -- Ethics and moral framework -- Requirements. Identifying needs and gathering information -- Customer requirements -- Product concepts. Establishing and structuring functions -- Specifications -- Solution concept. Conceptual design -- Concept evaluation and selection -- Embodiment design. Concept prototypes -- Embodiment design -- Detail design. Detail design -- Detailed design : engineering analysis -- Closure. Case study -- Selection of design projects.

"This third edition outlines the engineering design process in five basic stages -- requirements, product concept, solution concept, embodiment design, and detailed design. The authors take a unique approach, distinctively describing how these five stages can be seamlessly integrated. The book illustrates how the design methods can work together coherently while supporting exercises and labs to help designers efficiently navigate the design process. The book leads the beginner designer from the basics of design with very simple tasks -- the first lab involves designing a sandwich -- all the way through more complex design needs. This effective approach to the design model equips students with the skills to apply engineering design concepts not only to conventional engineering problems, but also for other design problems"--From the publisher.