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Product Design Best Practices

First Edition   Ullman, et al., © 2025, 650 pages

Product Design Best Practices combines the principles of mechanical, electrical, and software design processes. It integrates traditional, Lean, and Agile methods into a compendium of the 50 design best practices used in industry. It gives access to today's most effective methods and tools for developing quality products and the next generation of best practices.

The book is designed to support the entire engineering design process from need to production and is structured so that individual best practices can be purchased and used as desired. It also has fifty Excel worksheets and case studies supporting the methods.

Product Design Best Practices was developed by professional design engineers and design process educators. The first author's book, The Mechanical Design Process, has been used widely since 1992 and is in its 6th edition.

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About the Authors

David Ullman person
David G. Ullman is an active product designer who has taught, researched, and written about design for over thirty years. He is an 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 the founder of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)—Design Theory and Methodology Committee and is a Life Fellow in the ASME. He holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the Ohio State University.
Joshua Summers person
Joshua D. Summers is Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education at the University of Texas at Dallas. He was formerly a Professor at Clemson University (2002-2020). Dr. Summers’ research has been funded by government, large industry, and small-medium sized enterprises. His areas of interest include collaborative design, knowledge management, and design enabler development with the overall objective of improving design through collaboration and computation. Eleven of his former advisees are faculty, teaching engineering design based on what they learned from Dr. Summers.
Jeremy Fielding person
Jeremy is a self-trained engineer with the simple goal of drawing people to engineering with amazing projects, inspire them with ideas, then teach them how to do it. He is fascinated with all things mechanical, but most of his projects require electronics, motors, and programming. Jeremy has over 1M followers on his YouTube channel.

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