This book was written as text for a one-semester course in fluid power. It is
expected that the course will be taught to senior-status engineering students.
In most engineering curricula, fluid power is an elective course. Students
interested in machine design (particularly those with a controls focus) make
room in their course of study for a single technical elective in fluid power.
This elective course must give them the basic foundation for the subject and
give as much design experience as possible. Students need to feel confident
that they can actually go out and “do something” with fluid power.