Emphasis on manufacturing science and quantitative analysis of manufacturing processes.  This emphasis enables student to understand the relationships among the material properties and the process variable in a given manufacturing process.

Quizzes, Review Questions and Problems - Includes Multiple Choice Quizzes for each chapter to be used as self-tests or classroom exercises.

Quantitative problems appear in every main section of the text.  These problems offer good, assignable homework opportunities and provide balance to the more descriptive material in the text.

Guide to Processing - Offers a Guide to Processing section in each of the four chapters on engineering materials which identifies the principal manufacturing processes used for that particular material type.  Chapters and articles in the text are listed where these processes are described.

Detailed Coverage of Topics Not Found in Other Texts:  Provides a strong emphasis on ceramics, polymers, composites and their processing technologies, where most other books focus primarily on metals and the processing of metals only.  This text contains full chapters on composites manufacturing, rubber processing, glass working, coating processes, mechanical assembly, electronics packaging and assembly, and production lines—topics usually given less coverage in other texts.

Product Design Considerations - Offers Product Design Considerations which present guidelines on design and nearly 40 Historical Notes of particular manufacturing technology origins.