Professor Goldenberg is a full-time faculty member in the department of Mechanical Engineering Technology & Design Drafting at Queensborough Community College.

He is the founder and president of the Center for Advanced Manufacturing Studies, a company dedicated to training and advising manufacturing personnel in the latest developments of CNC and CAD/CAM technology. Joseph Goldenberg is a mechanical engineer with over 40 years experience as a machine tool designer, CNC programmer, manufacturing manager and college professor. He is a member of Sigma XI and a senior member of SME. Formerly, he was professor and chairperson of the department of Mechanical Engineering Technology & Design Drafting at Queensborough Community College (CUNY). He has over 30 years experience teaching technology courses and many years experience in industry.

James Valentino holds a doctorate in applied mechanics from the Polytechnic University of New York. They received this award for their Introduction to Computer Numerical Control (Prentice Hall). Eugene Merchant Manufacturing Textbook Award, presented by the S ociety of Manufacturing Engineers in recognition of the year’s most outstanding manufacturing-related textbook. The authors are recipients of the prestigious M.

However, the student practice exercises from the book can be used if the user has a working version of Mastercam. IMPORTANT NOTE: The Mastercam X8 Demo on the enclosed CD-ROM may no longer work.

Contains student exercises at the end of each chapter.

Covers all aspects of using Mastercam X8 to machine various types of parts and contains a process plan describing the machining operations to be carried out to machine each part.

Eliminates flipping between pages by featuring all explanations on the same page as the example.

Uses numerous examples that provide step-by-step instructions with visual displays.

Emphasizes student-friendly visual displays in place of long explanations and definitions.

They also have also provided exercises from the text for student practice. The award-winning authors have carefully arranged the contents in a clear and logical sequence and have used many hundreds of visuals instead of wordy explanations. It can be used in virtually any educational setting-from four-year engineering schools to community colleges and voc/tech schools to industrial training centers-and will also serve as a reliable reference for on-the-job use or as a self-study manual. This unique text presents a thorough introduction to Mastercam X8 Lathe for anyone with little or no prior experience with the software.

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