Design Of Shaft . Shaft Design - UF ABE Shaft Design Chapter 12 Material taken from Mott, 2003, Machine Elements in Mechanical Design Shaft Design • A shaft is the component of a ME 343: Mechanical Design-3 Design of Shaft ME 343: Mechanical Design-3 Design of Shaft Aly Mousaad Aly, PhD Assistant Professor, Dept. of Mech. Eng. Faculty of Engineering, Alexandria University