MECHANICAL DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS

This book has been written for engineering to serve as a first text on the packing of electronic .systems. The material has been written for an engineering student or for a practicing professional working as a mechanical or electrical engineer with a company producing electronic products or system. The engineering student should completed fundamental courses in the engineering sciences, thermal sciences and materials as prerequisites .The practicing professional will probably be at the early stages of his or her career and be more concerned with the technical details of the design rather than the business strategy of a products line.

The book is an introduction to the design of electronic system from a mechanical engineering perspective, although attention is given to circuit analysis that may be of more interest to the electrical engineer. As such it covers a very broad range of topics from the physics of semiconductors to the design of advance high performance heat exchangers. To accommodate this breadth, we have divided the text into four independent parts. The first 1, which includes three chapters, deals with foundations for design.

Part 2 deals with the different levels of packaging electronic components and the methods commonly used in manufacturing and assembly. Analysis methods commonly employed to predict performance of system are covered in the six chapters included in part 3. While much of the analysis in industry is performed using specialized software programs we have emphasized a more theoretical approach that leads to closed from solutions for simple problems.

The book does differ to some degree from the conventional design textbook commonly found in engineering colleges. We have attempted to introduce some business aspects of design. Of particular importance here is the fact that the market price of a product drives the design. We have also tried to cover some of the thought process with design by describing both design and manufacturing aspects (good and bad) in the narrative part of the text. The exercises that are given at the end each chapter are markedly different from those found in the usual engineering textbook.