Table of Contents

List of Illustrators. Preface. About the Author. Introduction. UNDERSTANDING THE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Electrical Engineering. Mechanical Engineering. UNDERSTANDING THE DEVICES AND SYSTEMS. Generators and Motors. Brakes and Clutches. Amplifiers. Actuators. Transducers. Controlled Motion. Contact Makers and Electrodes. Computer Components. Marking Paper. Sound. Manufacturing. Assembling and Connecting. Military Devices. Medical Devices. Consumer Devices. Passive Electrical Components. UNDERSTANDING DESIGN. The Science and the Art. How One Designs. Minimum Constraint Design. Design for Manufacturing. User--Friendly Design. Accuracy, Adjustment, and Gauging. Reliability, Defects, Abuse, Failure, and Maintenance. Barriers, Filters, Conduits, and Valves. Ecology. Money. Cost Reduction and Product Improvement. Constraints on Design. People Engineering. Getting Help. Design Parameters. Product Classes and Families. Appendix: Patent Classification. References and Bibliography. Index.

About the Author

Lawrence J. Kamm is the author of Understanding Electro-Mechanical Engineering: An Introduction to Mechatronics, published by Wiley.