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Wind Powered Water Pumps

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This 408-page, six-part textbook presents a wide range of material of interest to students and instructors in an introductory engineering course intended for the first year.Part I covers the product, a human powered water pump.

Chapter 1 Engineering Design and Product Development

Chapter 2 Wind Power

Chapter 3 Capturing the Wind

Chapter 4 The Drive Assembly

Chapter 5 Designing Pumps

Part II presents manual methods of engineering graphics.

Chapter 6 Three-View drawings

Chapter 7 Pictorial Drawing

Chapter 8 Tables and Graphs

Part III describes software programs useful to engineering students.

Chapter 9 Microsoft Excel -- 2000

Chapter 10 Microsoft Powerpoint -- 2000

Part IV discusses many aspects of the product development process.

Chapter 11 Development Teams

Chapter 12 A Product Development Process

Part V treats the very important topic of communications for engineers.

Chapter 13 Technical Reports Gathering

Chapter 14 Design Briefings

Part VI introduces the relation between engineering and society.

Chapter 15 Engineering and Society

Chapter 16 Safety, Risk and Performance

Chapter 17 Ethics, Character and Engineering

Chapter 18 Sustainable Engineering

408 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2000

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