Designed for use in engineering design courses, and as a reference for industry professionals learning sustainable design concepts and practical methods, this book focuses on designers as the driving force behind sustainable products. It applies research-based methods to achieve real-world results for rapidly evolving industry trends.
Designed for use in engineering design courses, and as a reference for industry professionals learning sustainable design concepts and practical methods, Sustainability in Engineering Design focuses on designers as the driving force behind sustainable products. This book introduces sustainability concepts and explains the application of sustainable methods to the engineering design process.
The book also covers important design topics such as project and team management, client management, performance prediction, and the social and environmental effects of sustainable engineering design. These concepts and methods are supported with a wealth of worked examples, discussion questions, and primary case studies to aid comprehension.
- Applies research-based methods to achieve real-world results for rapidly evolving industry trends
- Focuses on design engineers as the starting point of creating sustainable design
- Provides practical methods and design tools to guide engineering designers in creating sustainably designed and engineering products
- Incorporates all aspects of sustainable engineering design, including the material selection, production, and marketing of products
- Includes cutting-edge sustainable design model case studies based on the authors' own research and experiences
1.0 Engineering Design and Sustainability Integration: An Overview
2.0 The Requirements of the Client
3.0 Managing Design, the Process and Teamwork
4.0 Design Approach
5.0 Sustainability Integrated into the Normal Design Process
6.0 Factors to Consider at the Beginning of a Design
7.0 Tools of the Design Process
8.0 Design of the Concept
9.0 Performance Prediction
10.0 Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
11.0 The Need for Sustainability
12.0 Life Cost
13.0 Strategic Sustainability
14.0 Embedding Sustainable Design
15.0 Predicting the Future
"...this book must be read by all engineers regardless of their specializations. It should also be read by all graduating students of engineering as they would be future designers of products and systems." --International Journal of Performability Engineering, September 2014
Anthony Johnson is an experienced Design Engineer and Educator responsible for Engineering Design in the Department of Engineering and Technology at the University of Huddersfield. He is also a U.K. Chartered Engineer (C. Eng) with the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. Professor Johnson is a prolific design consultant (with over 400 projects to date), educational consultant, and recent committee member with the British Standards Institute.
Andy Gibson is the Managing Director of Segelocum Ltd, a customer-focused designed education consultancy firm. Andrew has worked in product development and customer liaison, moving on onto export sales and marketing and thence into the management of international subsidiaries of UK-based engineering companies. In recent years, Mr. Gibson has developed a consultancy-based business working with clients to penetrate new markets, focusing on sustainability relating to international trade training.
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Our epoch has accepted the theory that leveraging is good for a person, a company or even a nation. This has led to the debt syndrome and its disastrous aftereffects. Throughout the book evidence emerges that piling up public debt can lead to an unmitigated disaster. This is demonstrated through case studies on Greece, Spain, Italy, France and the United States - in short, those western countries that nowadays have lost control of their senses and of their economy.
This book uses real life examples, using case studies as evidence of good and bad approaches to social, economic and financial life. Live events also help as undisputable demonstrators of successes and failures in the search for solutions in getting out of the hole western governments find themselves. As Denis Healey, a former British chancellor of the Exchequer, once said: "The first law of holes is that if you are in one stop digging.¿
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Designed for use in engineering design courses, and as a reference for industry professionals learning sustainable design concepts and practical methods, Sustainability in Engineering Design focuses on designers as the driving force behind sustainable products. This book introduces sustainability concepts and explains the application of sustainable methods to the engineering design process.
The book also covers important design topics such as project and team management, client management, performance prediction, and the social and environmental effects of sustainable engineering design. These concepts and methods are supported with a wealth of worked examples, discussion questions, and primary case studies to aid comprehension.
