Development of an Undergraduate Engineering Design Textbook - Wendy Beatty
Hometown: Saratoga Springs, New York
Class Year: 2009
Major: Mechanical Engineering
Research Advisor: Professor Bill Keat
Project Description:
This summer I assisted Professor Keat in beginning work on a text concerning the engineering design process. The text will be aimed at undergraduate students, and will be designed to particularly assist those with little or no practical experience in the field. We set and completed the dual goals of taking an engineering design project from start to finish – to be used to in the text as an illustrative example – and of researching a chapter on creativity. In the future we hope to complete chapters on tools and their uses, manufacturing processes, brainstorming, and other useful subdivisions of design theory and practice.