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Engineering Design Methods:
Strategies for Product Design, 4th Edition

Nigel Cross

978-0-470-51926-4  230pp 
Paperback
April 2008

The design process is an engineering discipline that precedes the manufacturing of every product, and which requires the designer to develop a strategy that takes into account constraints including budget, time and material properties and addresses problem solving and optimization. Engineering Design Methods, written in a clear and readable by an experienced author of teaching texts, is an integrated design textbook that presents this strategy and sets it in the context of broader product development and design process management.

This revised fourth edition -

Building on the outstanding success of the previous three editions, this edition cements Engineering Design Methods' position at the forefront of engineering and industrial design as an essential text for students and lecturers as well as practitioners of engineering and industrial design.

Reviewers' comments:

“Engineering Design Methods… is a valuable contribution to the engineering design literature. It is a useful text for both engineering students and practising designers. The engineering design methods presented are those that are of practical significance and the book is a must for anyone wishing to raise the standard of their design work. The design methods are described clearly and succinctly, examples are used to illustrate principles and design strategies are presented that show how the methods are best employed”. - Professor Graham Thompson, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UMIST, UK

“Professor Nigel Cross' treatment of Engineering Design is a singularly successful treatment for my courses because it is short and concise enough to be read by virtually all students. Furthermore, his interpretations are open enough to allow the inquiring mind to fill out the picture, incorporating and extending the ideas to fit the reflective designer's own needs. More prescriptive treatments fail to support learning in this regard”. - Professor Larry Leifer, Stanford Center for Design Research, Stanford University, USA

“This book is an excellent book as a textbook for design methodology both for undergraduate and graduate level. It includes all the necessary issues of design methods ranging from comprehensive theoretical frameworks on design and the design process to very practical examples. Students will gain a firm foundation of design methods from problem definition to design evaluations from this book”. - Professor Kun-Pyo Lee, Department of Industrial Design, Korea Institute of Science and Technology, Korea