Written for engineers and apprentice draftsmen contemplating moving towards engineering technology, this book provides a number of worked examples covering basic beam and shaft design together with combined torsion and bending. Chapters on keys and spline strength calculations, methods of attachments, flat plates energy formulae, and gearing are included. There is also a chapter introducing a method of material selection which detailing how to set up a database covering materials for the student's personal use. The final chapter includes a variety of conversion and general tables.