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This textbook supports a course, entitled Product Engineering and Manufacturing, which was initiated at the University of Maryland in 1994.  It is a required course in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum, which precedes the capstone design experience in the senior year.  The concept was to build on the students’ early design experience by considering a real product mass-produced by a local company competing in the global market.  While the course is for mechanical engineering majors, the content is broad and suitable for students in any engineering discipline.  The book has six technical objectives and three goals for student development.  It is an excellent text for a capstone design course because of its emphasis on product development.  Enhance your students’ capstone design experience with a book that describes design procedures for developing a mass-produced product.  Add challenging hands-on experiences involving benchmarking and improving the design of an existing product.  Discuss concept generation and selection.  Introduce quality function deployment to aid in writing product specifications.  Describe a modern method for estimating profits for a new product development.  Provide statistical methods for quality control.  Discuss manufacturing methods and production management.  Review engineering drawing methods with emphasis on geometric tolerancing.  Stress the importance of communications with modern methods for gathering information, writing technical reports and presenting design briefings.  

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

 Linda C. Schmidt is an associate professor of Mechanical Engineering in the Manufacturing and Design Division.  She earned B. S. and M. S. degrees in Industrial Engineering from Iowa State University and a Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University with specialization in Design Theory.  She is a member of the ASME, ASEE, AAUW, and SWE and has been elected to Pi Tau Sigma and Tau Beta Pi.  Her primary research area is in the development of computer based tools to aid designers during the concept development phase.  She is actively involved in teaching new methods for design and development at both the graduate and undergraduate level. 

Guangming Zhang obtained the B. S. and M. S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Tianjin University, PRC.  He obtained the M. S. and Ph. D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.  He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Advanced Design and Manufacturing Laboratory at the University of Maryland at College Park.  He holds a joint appointment with the Institute for Systems Research. Professor Zhang has also worked at the Northwest Medical Surgical Instruments Factory and has taught at the Beijing Institute of Printing in China.  He has received the National Award for Outstanding Teaching from the Press and Publication Administration in 1987.  In 1992, he received the Outstanding Systems Engineering Faculty Award, and he was the recipient of the E. Robert Kent Outstanding Teaching Award of the College of Engineering in 1993.  He was the recipient of the 1992 Blackall Machine Tool & Gage Award of the ASME.  He is a member of the editorial boards of the International Journal of Flexible Automation and Intelligent Manufacturing and the International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Systems.

 Jeffery Herrmann earned the B. S. from Georgia Institute of Technology and, as a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, was awarded the Ph. D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the University of Florida.  Currently he is an assistant professor at the University of Maryland where he holds a joint appointment with the Department of Mechanical Engineering and the Institute for Systems Research.  He is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (IORMS) and the ASME.

George E. Dieter obtained the B.S. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from Drexel Institute of Technology and the Sc.D. in metallurgy from Carnegie Mellon University.  He has taught at Drexel, Carnegie Mellon University, and at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he was Dean of Engineering. He is a Fellow of ASM, TMS, AAAS, and ASEE. He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, and received the Lamme Medal, the highest award from the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

 Patrick F. Cunniff  obtained the B. C. E. degree from Manhattan College and the M. S. and Ph. D. degrees from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.  He served in the U. S. Public Health service for two years and worked at the Naval Research Laboratory before joining the University of Maryland in 1963.  He is currently a professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department and Associate Dean for the Professional Master of Engineering Program and Continuing Education.  He is a fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and a member of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE).

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