Make and Test Projects in Engineering Design: Creativity, Engagement and Learning

With a Foreword by William Lewis
With 242 Figures
Andrew Emery Samuel, BMechE, MEngSci, PhD, DEng Hon
Research Professor
Engineering Design Group
Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
University of Melbourne
Victoria 3010
Australia
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Samuel, A. E. (Andrew E.), 1934
Make and test projects in engineering design: creativity, engagement and learning
1. Engineering design 2. Testing 3. Engineering models 4. Engineering education
I. Title
620 ?.0044
1852339152
Library of Congress Control Number: 2005925182
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ISBN-10: 1-85233-915-2
ISBN-13: 978-1-85233-915-9
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