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Useful books and references

Mechanical Design

  • Ingenious Mechanisms for Designers and Inventors (4-Volume Set), Franklin D Jones, Holbrook L Horton, John A Newell, Industrial Press, ISBN 13: 9780831110840
  • Roark's Formulas for Stress and Strain, Warren C Young, 6th ed., McGraw-Hill, 1989
  • https://www.protolabs.com/resources/design-tips/ - quick advice on creating plastic, metal, and elastomeric parts for 3D printing, CNC machining, sheet metal fabrication, and injection molding
    • [small warning]] This information is furnished by Protolabs, a service manufacturer. They do FAST work, but you pay for that speed. And after requesting a quote, they will hound you to place an order.

Wind Turbines

  • Wind Turbine Handbook, Burton, Sharpe, Jenkins and Bossanyi, Wiley and Sons, 2001
    A number of copies of this book are available to borrow from Project Engineer's office - JEC 2027

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Introduction to Engineering Design materials

The Design Process

An expanded version of the process taught in this course is available as a poster on the Design Process page.

Ulrich, Eppinger, and Yang

This is the textbook now required for IED-PD1. As this is a very useful reference book for both this class and for on-the-job usage after graduation, we DO recommend that you purchase a copy if you do not still have one from IED.

IED Activities

This PDF has all of the activities and worksheets from the Introduction to Engineering Design course. The worksheets are easily re-built in Word or Excel if needed. The activities, when used with the textbook material, can be leveraged for your Capstone project!

A new activity not contained in the above PDF focuses on Needs and Requirements. It includes some very helpful tips for reviewing these and for creating strong well defined needs and concrete and measurable requirements.

There are some useful templates from IED as well:

NOTE that the "1's and 0's" approach used for IED Decision Matrices is NOT acceptable for Capstone! You must have meaningful criteria based directly on your project requirements AND you must use meaningful numeric metrics to evaluate how well your concepts solve the problem. Do NOT use the "1's and 0's" as you did in IED! Please use this template instead: export:template documents/Decision Matrix Example.xlsx

In general, do not blindly follow any template! Instead, you must critically evaluate how you use them to facilitate and document your design process. IED gave you a set of tools - but only a limited set and not all of those tools necessarily apply to every situation!

Additional templates for customer needs and requirements can be found at: Requirements Management

IED Lectures

Videos

The lectures on engineering design have now been converted to short videos. These are available on MediaSite (RPI login required):

http://mediasite.mms.rpi.edu/Mediasite5/Catalog/catalogs/anderm8winrpiedu-engr-2050

Presentations

We have uploaded a selection of the slides from past Introduction to Engineering Design lectures that are most relevant to the design process.

Professional Development

We have carried forward some of the professional development materials so that they can be applied at the Capstone level.

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