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Contents
- Introduction
- Learning outcomes
- 1 Engineering beginnings
- 2 Engineering by design
- 3 Engineering to rule
- 4 Engineering for products
- 4.1 What is manufacturing?
- 4.2 Manufacturing processes: making things
- 4.3 Joining
- 4.4 Mechanical joining
- 4.5 Adhesive joints – gluing
- 4.6 Welding
- 4.7 Joining our gearwheel
- 4.8 Additive manufacturing
- 4.9 Fundamentals of additive manufacturing
- 4.10 Capabilities and potential of additive manufacturing
- 4.11 3D printing our gearwheel
- 5 Engineering: pushing back the boundaries
- 5.1 Electrical beginnings
- 5.2 Simple electrochemical cells: invention or discovery?
- 5.3 An inventive step – a 'battery' of cells
- 5.4 Batteries, chemistry and corrosion
- 5.5 Electricity from sunlight
- 5.6 Photovoltaics in the context of renewable energy
- 5.7 Types of renewable energy
- 5.8 Why renewables?
- 5.9 Why photovoltaics?
- 5.10 PV terminology
- 5.11 Economics, environmental impact and integration
- 5.12 Economics and implementation
- 5.13 Large-scale implementation
- 5.14 Environmental impact
- 5.16 Summary
- Conclusion
- Appendix: British Standard Personal eye-protection – Specifications
- Keep on learning
- References
- Acknowledgements
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