Breath to breadth: Peter Sydenham's introduction to management of engineering design

Adrian Mondry

doi:10.1186/1475-925x-3-45

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Breath to breadth: Peter Sydenham's introduction to management of engineering design

Highlights

Based on a semester-long seminar on the topic, this book aims to fill a gap in the current engineering curricula by taking a wide-angle view at the process of engineering design rather than focusing on a more narrow and indepth approach
As part of Artech House Publishers' technology management and professional development library, this is an excellent introduction to the topic and may serve for later reference
The book, according to the preface, aims at those readers who are engineers "who have, or aspire to team leadership or want to take on increased team interfacing responsibilities". As such it builds on and expands what the author perceives to be too little taught in the regular university courses, and covers what is lacking: "breadth of the knowledge needed to be an effective engineering designer."

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Introduction

Based on a semester-long seminar on the topic, this book aims to fill a gap in the current engineering curricula by taking a wide-angle view at the process of engineering design rather than focusing on a more narrow and indepth approach. Published: 03 December 2004 BioMedical Engineering OnLine 2004, 3:45 doi:10.1186/1475-925X-3-45 As part of Artech House Publishers' technology management and professional development library, this is an excellent introduction to the topic and may serve for later reference.

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