Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design

A thorough, well-written guide to the process of design – planning, documenting, and executing product designs. Covers a variety of methods, integration between different groups that are involved, e.g. engineering and marketing. This text would be very useful in undergraduate engineering, marketing, and product design curriculums.

What I like best about "Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design" by Nigel Cross is that the author's stays on topic per chapter, gives good examples and doesn't go over long. It is concise, informative and organized. There are a few pages with images that were a little hard to read but otherwise, it was easy to follow and understand.

Review is from a freshman in Industrial Engineering (strong interest in new product development).- excellent overview of design procedures from conceptualization to actualization- integrates some concepts from design thinking- provides some good examples and clear instructions on how to use each frameworkWould have liked the author to focus on 2-4 different examples through the book to show how different frameworks would have dealt with the same problem differently. More challenges or exercises with online content would have been very helpful.(Anyone in a professional setting would benefit from this book as a quick refresher on various design frameworks that can be used to pressure test ones assumptions. Overall, a well organized book that may be sufficient for a freshman/sophomore in engineering disciplines).

My son is a second year undergraduate Mechanical Engineering student who’s excited about his upcoming design courses. He asked me to order him this book so he can begin to understand the concepts he will be introduced to in future courses. We won’t really now how useful it was in preparing him for future coursework for some time.He says it’s well written and easy to understand and he’s excited about what he’s learning from it.