Machine Design 5th Edition

Machine Design (5th Edition) 5th Edition
Author: Robert L. Norton ID: 013335671X

About the Author

 

Robert L. Norton earned undergraduate degrees in both mechanical engineering and industrial technology at Northeastern University and an MS in engineering design at Tufts University. He is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts. He has extensive industrial experience in engineering design and manufacturing and many years’ experience teaching mechanical engineering, engineering design, computer science, and related subjects at Northeastern University, Tufts University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute.

 

At Polaroid Corporation for 10 years, he designed cameras, related mechanisms, and high-speed automated machinery. He spent three years at Jet Spray Cooler Inc., designing food-handling machinery and products. For five years he helped develop artificial-heart and noninvasive assisted-circulation (counterpulsation) devices at the Tufts New England Medical Center and Boston City Hospital. Since leaving industry to join academia, he has continued as an independent consultant on engineering projects ranging from disposable medical products to high-speed production machinery. He holds 13 U.S. patents.

 

Norton has been on the faculty of Worcester Polytechnic Institute since 1981 and is currently the Milton P. Higgins II Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Russell P. Searle Distinguished Instructor, Head of the Design Group in that department, and the Director of the Gillette Project Center at WPI. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical engineering with emphasis on design, kinematics, vibrations, and dynamics of machinery.

 

He is the author of numerous technical papers and journal articles covering kinematics, dynamics of machinery, cam design and manufacturing, computers in education, and engineering education and of the texts Design of Machinery, Machine Design: An Integrated Approach and the Cam Design and Manufacturing Handbook. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. But, since his main interest is in teaching, he is most proud of the fact that, in 2007, he was chosen as U. S. Professor of the Year for the State of Massachusetts by the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, who jointly present the only national awards for teaching excellence given in the United States of America.

Hardcover: 1104 pagesPublisher: Prentice Hall; 5 edition (September 16, 2013)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 013335671XISBN-13: 978-0133356717 Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 1.7 x 9.9 inches Shipping Weight: 4.3 pounds Best Sellers Rank: #68,760 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #19 in Books > Engineering & Transportation > Engineering > Mechanical > Machinery #39 in Books > Textbooks > Engineering > Mechanical Engineering #16931 in Books > Reference

Excellent content, poor manufacturing on binding the pages together-I have a hardcover book. After a year of having the book, all of the pages are falling out. The absolute worst bounded book that I have ever payed over 200 bucks for. Shame on you Prentice Hall. A classmate also bought the same book, and his book is basically a loose leaf booklet already.

This book seems pretty useful, however it is not very user friendly. The homework problems constantly refer to diagrams and tables that are not on the same page as the problem itself. Sometimes you’ll have problems telling you to look at several figures throughout the chapter and so you’ll have to dig through the chapter to find them just to answer the homework problem. Other homework problems reference figures and tables that happen to be on the next page of homework problems. I’ve never had a book that has done this and it’s pretty annoying. The homework problems also build upon themselves, so if you do problem 5.44 it basically asks you to redo problem 4.44 and do some additional work. This is also annoying because it makes you do the same work over and over again.

If you’re assigned homework out of this book, you’ll be doing a lot of referencing. It will tell you, ‘see problem 4-27’ and then when you read 4-27 it will say ‘refer to figure 3-2’. The book sometimes refers you to the wrong figure. The chapters are very long as well.
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