Engineering Design: A Project-based Introduction

3GCH01 08/27/2013 17:59:17 Page 2 3GFFIRS 08/28/2013 0:32:31 Page i F O U RT H E D I T I O N ENGINEERING DESIGN: A PROJECT-BASED INTRODUCTION CLIVE L. DYM, PATRICK LITTLE, and ELIZABETH J. ORWIN Harvey Mudd College 3GFFIRS 08/28/2013 0:32:31 Page ii VP & PUBLISHER EDITOR EDITORIAL ASSISTANT MARKETING MANAGER MARKETING ASSISTANT COVER DESIGNER PHOTO EDITOR ASSOCIATE PRODUCTION MANAGER PRODUCTION EDITOR Don Fowley Dan Sayre Jessica Knecht Chris Ruel Marissa Carroll Miriam Dym Felicia Ruocco Joyce Poh Jolene Ling This book was set by Thomson Digital. Cover and text printed and bound by Edwards Brothers Malloy. This book is printed on acid free paper. Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of knowledge and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfill their aspirations. Our company is built on a foundation of principles that include responsibility to the communities we serve and where we live and work. In 2008, we launched a Corporate Citizenship Initiative, a global effort to address the environmental, social, economic, and ethical challenges we face in our business. Among the issues we are addressing are carbon impact, paper specifications and procurement, ethical conduct within our business and among our vendors, and community and charitable support. For more information, please visit our website: www.wiley.com/go/citizenship. Copyright # 2014, 2009, 2004, 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, Inc. 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, website www.copyright.com. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, (201)748-6011, fax (201)748-6008, website http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Evaluation copies are provided to qualified academics and professionals for review purposes only, for use in their courses during the next academic year. These copies are licensed and may not be sold or transferred to a third party. Upon completion of the review period, please return the evaluation copy to Wiley. Return instructions and a free of charge return mailing label are available at www.wiley.com/go/returnlabel. If you have chosen to adopt this textbook for use in your course, please accept this book as your complimentary desk copy. Outside of the United States, please contact your local sales representative. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Dym, Clive L. Engineering design : a project-based introduction / Clive L. Dym, Patrick Little and Elizabeth J. Orwin, Harvey Mudd College. – 4th edition. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-118-32458-5 (pbk.) 1. Engineering design. I. Little, Patrick, 1952- II. Orwin, Elizabeth J. III. Title. TA174.D958 2014 620 0.0042–dc23 2013016211 Printed in the United States of America 10