Thomas Ask

Engineering for Industrial Designers and Inventors (eBook, ePUB)

Fundamentals for Designers of Wonderful Things

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

If you have designs for wonderful machines in mind, but arent sure how to turn your ideas into real, engineered products that can be manufactured, marketed, and used, this book is for you. Engineering professor and veteran maker Tom Ask helps you integrate mechanical engineering concepts into your creative design process by presenting them in a rigorous but largely nonmathematical format.Through mind stories and images, this book provides you with a firm grounding in material mechanics, thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and heat transfer. Students, product and mechanical designers, and inventive makers will also explore nontechnical topics such as aesthetics, ethnography, and branding that influence product appeal and user preference.Learn the importance of designing functional products that also appeal to users in subtle waysExplore the role of aesthetics, ethnography, brand management, and material culture in product designDive into traditional mechanical engineering disciplines related to the behavior of solids, liquids, and gasesUnderstand the human factors of design, such as ergonomics, kinesiology, anthropometry, and biomimicryGet an overview of available mechanical systems and components for creating your product

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781491932568
• Artikelnr.: 45093363

Autorenporträt

Thomas Ask is a professor of industrial design at Pennsylvania College of Technology. Previously, he worked as an engineer for nearly 20 years, designing dozens of commercial products and systems. He is the founder of the Society of Inventors and Mad Scientists as well as a licensed Professional Engineer with a doctorate in Industrial Design. He is a member of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society for Engineering Education.