Libros UCLV { BETA }

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Sadly, just one year after the publication of the fourth German edition in 1997, my co-author Wolfgang Beitz died after a short but severe illness. His many outstanding contributions to engineering design, including his contribution to this book, were honoured in a memorialcolloquium held in Berlin. It would have made me very happy if he had been able to see the continuing success of our book, including its translation into Portuguese. Our collaboration was a perfect one— always fruitful, always beneficial. I am deeply grateful to him. The book, “Pahl/Beitz—Konstruktionslehre”, has now been translated into eight languages and recognized as an international reference text. For reasons of continuity, our publisher Springer wanted to pub- lish a fifth German edition of the book. To assist with this task two former students of Wolfgang Beitz became involved: Professor Dr.-Ing. Jörg Feldhusen and Professor Dr.-Ing. Karl-Heinrich Grote, both of whom have continually promoted and expanded his ideas. Professor Feldhusen worked for many years as a senior designer in the auto- motive industry and is now at RWTH Aachen University, succeeding Professor Dr. Ing. R. Koller. Professor Grote has considerable experience of teaching design and running projects as a Professor in the USA, and is now at the Otto-von-Guericke University in Magdeburg. He succeeded Professor Beitz as the Editor of the Dubbel Handbook for Mechanical Engineering.

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David G. Ullman is an active product designer who has taught, researched, and written about design for over thirty years. He is president of Robust Decisions, Inc., a supplier of software products and training for product development and decision support. He is Emeritus Professor of Mechanical Design at Oregon State University. He has professionally designed fluid/thermal, control, and transportation systems. He has published over twenty papers focused on understanding the mechanical product design process and the development of tools to support it. He is founder of the American Society Mechanical Engineers (ASME)—Design Theory and Methodology Committee and is a Fellow in the ASME. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University.