Traditional approaches, and recent technologies and concepts related to gear engineering are presented in 49 papers by contributors from such institutions as automobile, heavy equipment, aircraft, and tool companies, NASA, and the US Army. A sampling of topics: stress/strength relationships, maximum conjugacy, impact fatigue resistance, noise source prediction, the design and selection of hobs, cutting tools, shaving, finishing, computer-aided die design, measuring teeth span, pitch and index errors. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.