Overview
- Explores practical ways to integrate different fields to improve and inspire the design of value-added products based on specific examples of product development and application
- Covers a range of engineering fields including bio-mechanical, medical and liberal-arts engineering to explore different applications and requirements for each case
- Provides a guideline for post-graduate students and young academics about how to handle the engineering problems of the next generation
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents(13 chapters)
About this book
In creating the value-added product in not distant future, it is necessary and inevitable to establish a holistic and though-evoking approach to the engineering problem, which should be at least associated with the inter-disciplinary knowledge and thought processes across the whole engineering spheres. It is furthermore desirable to integrate it with trans-disciplinary aspects ranging from manufacturing culture, through liberal-arts engineering and industrial sociology.
The thought-evoking approach can be exemplified and typified by representative engineering problems: unveiling essential features in ‘Tangential Force Ratio and Interface Pressure’, prototype development for ‘Bio-mimetic Needle’ and application of ‘Water-jet Machining to Artificial Hip Joint’, product innovation in ‘Heat Sink for Computer’, application of ‘Graph Theory’ to similarity evaluation of production systems, leverage among reciprocity attributes in ‘Industrial and Engineering Designs for Machine Enclosure’ and academic interpretation of skills of mature technician in ‘Scraping’.
The book is intended to cultivate the multi-talented engineer of the next generation by providing them with the future perspective and ideas for challenging research and development subjects.
Editors and Affiliations
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Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
Yoshimo Ito
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Thought-Evoking Approaches in Engineering Problems
Editors: Yoshimo Ito
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-04120-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-04119-3Published: 27 March 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-35194-0Published: 30 April 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-04120-9Published: 11 March 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 295
Number of Illustrations: 133 b/w illustrations, 149 illustrations in colour
Topics: Engineering Design, Innovation/Technology Management