TABLE OF CONTENTS Engineering materials constitute an important segment of successful engineering design and application of components, devices, and equipment. Proper selection and optimized application of materials in engineering are essential.
The profession of mechanical engineering requires a basic and complete understanding of all of the scientific and operational principles of forces and energy, including, dynamics and movement of objects; conversion of one form of energy to another, flow of fluidic materials and the energy transfer to and from fluids in motion; make up of materials and behavior of materials when subjected to forces; chemicals and their interactions with components of machinery; all forms of energy; synthesis and operational principles of dynamic components and systems; mechanical designs, their step-by-step evolution as well as synthesis, making of prototypes and demonstrating the operational features of machines and equipment; laboratory and field testing to evaluate the functional details and efficiency of the machines and mechanisms, etc. The practice of the mechanical engineering profession requires a thorough knowledge of not only the mechanisms and machines, systems, etc., but also an ability to process and manufacture them in the first place and to maintain them without experiencing problems of any kind during their use, with an innate ability to repair...
