Design of Machinery: An Introduction to the Synthesis and Analysis of Mechanisms and Machines, 3/e
Robert L Norton,
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
ISBN: 0072470461 Copyright year: 2004
About the Author
Robert L. Norton earned undergraduate degrees in both mechanical engineering and industrial technology at Northeastern University and an MS in engineering design at Tufts University. He is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts. He has extensive industrial experience in engineering design and manufacturing and many years experience teaching mechanical engineering, engineering design, computer science, and related subjects at Northeastern University, Tufts University, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. At Polaroid Corporation for 10 years, he designed cameras, related mechanisms, and high-speed automated machinery. He spent three years at Jet Spray Cooler, Inc., Waltham, Mass., designing food-handling machinery and products. For five years he helped develop artificial-heart and noninvasive assisted-circulation (counterpulsation) devices at the Tufts New England Medical Center and Boston City Hospital. Since leaving industry to join academia, he has continued as an independent consultant on engineering projects ranging from disposable medical products to high-speed production machinery. He holds 13 U.S. patents.
Norton has been on the faculty of Worcester Polytechnic Insititute since 1981 and is currently professor of mechanical engineering and head of the design group in that department. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in mechanical engineering with emphasis on design, kinematics, and dynamics of machinery. He is the author of numerous technical papers and journal articles covering kinematics, dynamics of machinery, cam design and manufacturing, computers in education, and engineering education and of the text Machine Design: An Introduction to the Synthesis and Analysis of Mechanisms and Machines now in its third edition. He is a Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers. Rumors about the transportation of a Pentium microprocessor into his brain are decidedly untrue (though he could use some additional RAM). As for the unobtainium ring, well, that's another story.
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