TY - BOOK AU - Cross,Nigel TI - Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design SN - 0471872504 AV - TA174 .C76 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - Chichester, New York PB - Wiley KW - Engineering design N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-210) and index; The nature of design; the design process; design methods; clarifying objectives; establishing functions; setting requirements; determining characteristics; generating alternatives; evaluating alternatives; improving details; design strategies N2 - Including new topics and more recent examples of applications, this is the second edition of a book concerned with the fundamental approaches to design, such as problem formulation and design embodiment. Divided into three parts, it discusses the nature of design for engineering, covers with various methodologies and deals with strategic design ER -