Mc Graw-Hill Book Co. Ine PUBLISHERS OF BOOKS FOR Electrical World Engineering News-Record Power Engineering and Mining Journal-Press Chemical and Metallurgical Engineering Electric Railway Journal Coal Age American Machinist Ingenieria Internacional Electrical Merchandising BusTransportation Journal of Electricity and Western Industry Industrial Engineer MANAGEMENT ENGINEERING THE DESIGN AND BY P. F. WALKER, M.M.E. FIRST EDITION MCGRAW-HILL BOOK COMPANY, INC. 1735 COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY THE PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THE MAPLE PRESS COMPANY, YORK, PA. PREFACE This small book is the result of an attempt to bring together material which has been treated in many separate volumes. The aim is to make this material available in the classroom, rather than to present new facts or distinctive ideas. Material has been taken from many books, and in so doing it has been the intention to give credit to the several authors by specific mention in each case. If by any chance this has been overlooked, the author takes this opportunity to make due acknowledgement. There is a growing feeling among engineering educators in the country at large that engineering curricula should include work in economics, pure and applied. It is well-nigh universal practice to send students to the several departments of economics for the fundamental course in the elements. Beyond this the standard courses in economics are specialized to such extent that an impossible amount of time would be required to give an engineering student an introduction to all of the various subjects of which he should have some knowledge. Such topics are brought together in this volume, with brief treatment, it is true, with the purpose of introducing the student to the main principles which underlie business procedure, and of giving him an introduction to more extended specialized treatises. A mechanical or industrial engineering student has an especially urgent need for a book of this sort. The former educational practice of concentrating the technical training in mechanical engineering into the lines of power development and machine design is giving way to the plan of so directing the training that there will be afforded many points of contact with manufacturing industries. The design and layout of factories are demanding more of the time and energy of the engineer today than is the design of steam engines. Economy in production, on which the industrial future of this country will depend, is something that is directly associated with the layout of industrial plants and the effective control of material as it flows from the stock bins to the shipping platform, and of labor in its manipulative work. V 550328 |