INDEX

A

Aeronautical engineers, 100, 132, 135

Agency-loyalty, 255

Air Force, 251, 256

Airline industry, 134

Airplane, 134

design, 5

prototypes of, 134

visible differences, 5

Air-quality issues, 216

Almost-but-not-quite-finished version, 27

Alternative designs, 31, 86, 95, 107, 111, 203

Aluminium, 266, 267

extension ladders, 18

American Beverage Company (ABC), 35, 56, 57

American National Standards Institute (ANSI), 123, 125, 164

wood safety requirements, 194

American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE), 215, 252

codes of ethics of, 253, 255, 262

American Society of Mechanical Engineers Code of Ethics, 215, 281, 288, 295, 296

Anisotropic material, 266

Application-specific integrated circuit, 136

Arm support, for CP-afflicted student, designing, 4446

Arrow Impossibility Theorem, 55

ASME Pressure Vessel and Piping Code, 22

Assembly drawings, 123, 124, 198, 209

B

Back-of-the-envelope, 59

model, 59

Balance laws, 171

Bardeen, John, 133

Battery-powered payload cart, modeling, 177

mechanics of moving, 177180

selection of characteristics

battery and battery operating, 181183

motor and motor operating, 184186

Beam, 168, 169, 188, 189, 190, 192

cross-sectional area, 168, 188

equations, 18

model, 191

theory, 188, 189

Bell, Alexander Graham, 133

Best-of-class chart, 110

Beta testing, 27

Beverage container, 93, 94

chemically inert, 108

establishing metrics for, 61

Beverage-filled Mylar container, 133

B. F. Goodrich Company, 256

Big box retailer, 191

Bill of materials (BOM), 198, 199, 209 ...

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