For courses in Machine Design, Design of Machine Elements, Mechanical Design, and Product Design. Using an exceptionally readable, applied approach to the principles and practice of mechanical design, this text presents the concepts, procedures, data, and decision-analysis techniques students need to design safe, efficient, and workable machine elements and to effectively integrate them into total systems. Hands-on in nature, it features an abundance of thoroughly worked and explained examples and topic-specific and comprehensive integrative reality-based problems and projects. The use of spreadsheets and the latest computational tools and extensive appendices provide realistic up-to-date data and techniques for use in problem solutions and design projects.