Winner in its first edition of the Best New Undergraduate Textbook by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association of Publishers ‎(‎AAP‎)‎‎,‎ Kosky‎,‎ et al is the first text offering an introduction to the major engineering fields‎,‎ and the engineering design process‎,‎ with an interdisciplinary case study approach‎.‎ It introduces the fundamental physical‎,‎ chemical and material bases for all engineering work and presents the engineering design process using examples and hands‎-on projects‎.‎ Organized in two parts to cover both the concepts and practice of engineering‎:‎ Part I‎,‎ Minds On‎,‎ introduces the fundamental physical‎,‎ chemical and material bases for all engineering work while Part II‎,‎ Hands On‎,‎ provides opportunity to do design projects‎.‎ An Engineering Ethics Decision Matrix is introduced in Chapter 1 and used throughout the book to pose ethical challenges and explore ethical decision‎-making in an engineering context‎.‎ Lists of ‎'‎Top Engineering Achievements‎'‎ and ‎'‎Top Engineering Challenges‎'‎ help put the material in context and show engineering as a vibrant discipline involved in solving societal problems‎.‎ New to this edition‎:‎ additional discussions on what engineers do‎,‎ and the distinctions between engineers‎,‎ technicians‎,‎ and managers ‎(‎Chapter 1‎)‎‎;‎ new coverage of Renewable Energy and Environmental Engineering helps emphasize the emerging interest in Sustainable Engineering‎;‎ and‎,‎ new discussions of Six Sigma in the Design section‎,‎ and expanded material on writing technical reports‎.‎ It includes re‎-organized and updated chapters in Part I to more closely align with specific engineering disciplines new end of chapter excercises throughout the book‎.‎