An Introduction to Mechanical Engineering

Introduce your students to today's ever changing field of mechanical engineering as you instill an appreciation for how engineers design hardware that builds and improves societies around the world. AN INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL ENGINEERING, 4E by Wickert/Lewis is ideal for students in their first or second year of your college or university's mechanical engineering program. It is also useful for students in closely related fields. The authors effectively balance timely treatments of technical problem-solving skills, design, engineering analysis, and modern technology to provide the solid mechanical engineering foundation students need for future success.

A professor of mechanical engineering, Jonathan Wickert teaches and conducts research in dynamics and mechanical vibration. As a researcher and consultant, he has worked with companies and federal agencies on the engineering of data storage systems, the manufacture of sheet metal, fiberglass, polymers, and industrial chemicals, automotive brakes, radial flow gas turbines, and various consumer products. He served as Iowa State’s provost, dean of engineering, and chair of mechanical engineering, and was an engineering professor for 17 years at Carnegie Mellon University. Dr. Wickert is the author of over 100 technical articles, and he received awards from the Society of Automotive Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. He is a fellow of both the ASME and the National Academy of Inventors. Dr. Wickert earned B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley.

As Dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University at Buffalo - SUNY, Kemper Lewis teaches and conducts research in the areas of mechanical design and optimization. As a researcher and consultant, he has worked with companies and federal agencies to address a broad range of engineering design challenges. He served on the National Academies Panel on Benchmarking the Research Competitiveness of the United States in Mechanical Engineering and has received teaching and research awards from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Society of Automotive Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a fellow of both the ASME and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Dr. Lewis earned his B.S. in mechanical engineering from Duke University and his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.