Introduction to Mechanical Engineering

Jonathan Wickert

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This textbook will introduce you to the ever-emerging field of mechanical engineering and help you appreciate how engineers design the hardware that builds and improves societies all around the world. As the title implies, this textbook is neither an encyclopedia nor a comprehensive treatment of the discipline. Such a task is impossible for a single textbook, and, regardless, our perspective is that the traditional four-year engineering curriculum is just one of many steps taken during a lifelong education. By reading this textbook, you will discover the “forest” of mechanical engineering by examining a few of its “trees,” and along the way, you will be exposed to some interesting and practical elements of the profession called mechanical engineering.