This book is the sixth edition of the ninth textbook in this series dealing with Introduction to Engineering
Design. Jim Dally, working with College House Enterprises, has prepared eight previous books in this
series--a new one almost every academic year--for the first-year engineering students of the University of
Maryland at College Park. Several other Colleges of Engineering have adopted one or more of the books in
this series to introduce design and engineering skills for their first or second year students.

The book is organized into parts to present many...