Norton Design of Machinery
Machine is designed to help human activity by consuming energy into mechanical energy. Machine has its own mechanism system. It is called as machinery that involved kinematics and dynamics in its process in manufacturing or industrial field. To understand about machine, we should know about design of machinery topic. This subject is intended as two semester course.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Machine is designed to help human activity by consuming energy into mechanical energy. Machine has its own mechanism system. It is called as machinery that involved kinematics and dynamics in its process in manufacturing or industrial field. To understand about machine, we should know about design of machinery topic. This subject is intended as two semester course.
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 and New Hampshire.
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 ten 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 Institute 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,
carn design and manufacturing, computers in education, and engineering education
and of the text Machine Design: An Integrated Approach. He is a Fellow of the American
Society of Mechanical Engineers and a member of the Society of Automotive Engineers.
Rumors about the transplantation 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
