Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering: A Design-Led Approach is the perfect text for a first course in materials for students majoring in mechanical, civil, biomedical, aerospace and other engineering disciplines, including materials science/engineering. The authors' systematic method of first analysing and selecting properties to match materials to design using real-world case studies, then examining the science behind the material properties, better engages students whose primary job responsibilities after graduation will be centred on engineering design or applied industrial research. As with Ashby's other leading texts, the book emphasises visual communication through material property charts and numerous schematics to help students better understand the origins of properties, their manipulation through composition and processing and their fundamental limits, and to provide a tool for selection of materials and for understanding the ways in which engineering materials are used. Key Features, Design-led approach motivates and engages students in the study of materials science and engineering through real-life case studies and illustrative applications, Requires a minimum level of math necessary for a first course in Materials Science and Engineering, Highly visual full color graphic facilitate understanding of materials concepts and properties, Chapters on materials selection and design are integrated with chapters on materials fundamentals, enabling students, to see how specific fundamentals can be important to the design process, Several topics are expanded separately as Guided Learning Units: Crystallography, Materials Selection in Design, Process Selection in Design, and Phase Diagrams and Phase Transformations, For instructors, a solutions manual, image bank and other ancillaries are available at https://educate.elsevier.com/bookydetails/9780081023990.