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providing superior books to engineers, students and professionals, which stress the importance of design. Our titles reflect the ideas and
expressions of engineering educators at the forefront of curricular
reform.
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Version 4.0 and
Version 5.0
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These
books, the seventh and eighth in a series, presents a comprehensive treatment of engineering design with a
focus on approaches based on information technology.
Because the capabilities of computers and software continue to expand at a
rapid rate, the importance of using advanced computer aided design
(CAD) systems in engineering design is emphasized.
Pro/ENGINEER, a leading CAD system, is described to demonstrate
the role of the computer in assisting engineers in the design process.
The books are written as introductory texts for undergraduate
students in all disciplines of engineering.
The books are also intended for engineers in industry engaged
in product design.
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- Product Engineering and Manufacturing,
Second Edition
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This textbook supports an important course Product Engineering
and Manufacturing in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum. The course provides a solid design experience for
engineering students, following an introductory course usually
taught to Engineering students in the first or second year.
This course is usually
taught
before or in conjunction with the capstone design experience in the
senior year. The concept
is to build on earlier design courses by considering a real product
mass-produced by a local company competing in the global market.
While the book is for mechanical, manufacturing or
industrial engineering majors, the
content is broad and suitable for students in any engineering
discipline.
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- Mechanics I: Statics++
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Mechanics II: Mechanics of Materials+
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These
textbooks provides a different approach for engineering students
to study Statics and Mechanics of Materials.
Although these courses cover relatively simple topics, many students find
them difficult, and
perform far below expectations.
In an effort to improve student performance, several members of the
faculty at the University of Maryland have developed a new approach
that integrates Statics and Mechanics of Materials and provides students with a better educational experience when
studying these early courses in mechanics.
These textbooks reflects the changes in the philosophy adopted by
the faculty when presenting the subject matter traditionally offered
in introductory mechanics courses.
The
changes in the philosophy were based on four premises:
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Present fundamental concepts in an interesting manner.
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Emphasize modeling with complete free body diagrams.
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Integrate content of Statics with Mechanics of Materials.
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Emphasize the design of structural components for safety.
Experimental
Solid Mechanics
College
House Enterprises, LLC reprinted, marketed and distributed the 3rd
edition of Experimental
Stress Analysis after the title was dropped by McGraw-Hill.
In
May of 2005 the 4th edition was released. In the 4th
edition, the essential features found in the 3rd edition of
Experimental Stress Analysis were retained.
However, extensive revisions were incorporated, to cover the many
changes in experimental mechanics that have occurred during the period from 1992
to 2005.
In
2010 we released Experimental Solid Mechanics to accommodate more recent changes
in the technical content and to expand its coverage. A significant amount of new content has been added by expanding existing
chapters and by introducing new chapters.
Two new chapters include: Nano Mechanics and Dynamic Loading
Methods. Some
material covering outdated methods has been removed.
The organization of the textbook includes five parts, which are described on the title page for
Experimental Solid Mechanics.
Engineering
with LEGO Bricks and ROBOLAB
Third
Edition
The
third edition of
Engineering with LEGO Bricks and ROBOLAB by Dr. Eric Wang was written to accommodate
the changes in ROBOLAB software for the new LEGO microprocessor (NXT). Eric has
followed the format of the very popular second edition with many changes to
describe the 2.9 version of ROBOLAB. The book has 344 pages with over 500 examples and images.
Eric
has taken what is called the "National Geographic" approach in the
developing this book. Simply stated, a student can get the gist of what’s going on simply
by looking at the pictures and reading the captions. Of course, the narrative
contains more details, but in terms of learning styles, the graphical approach
is important because many of us are visual learners.
Eric's
original intention was for this book to be used by first year engineering
students to introduce them to the design process, engineering fundamentals and
computer programming. However, much to our surprise, many (about half) of
the readers have turned out to be K-12 teachers and students. Thus, Eric has tried
to add material that pertains to both teachers and students who may be using
this book as a resource to help them conduct science experiments or compete in
competitions like the FIRST LEGO® League (FLL).
Eric
was just getting started in the field of engineering
education when he first met Chris Rogers, the creator of ROBOLAB.
In late 2001 the Frontiers in Education conference was held in Reno, NV and Chris and
Eric developed the idea for the book over dinner at a local casino. A
few months later, Eric was flying to the East Coast to meet with the folks
at LEGO® and National Instruments to discuss the book. The result of
that meeting was a series of books that have been well received by the LEGO
community. The most recent 3rd edition provides a guide for using
ROBOLAB with the new controller, the NXT, released by LEGO Educational in August
of 2006.
PHYSICS
BY DESIGN
Classroom-tested
Activities Using ROBOLAB and LEGO
Second
Edition and Third Editions
Barbara Bratzel, an
eighth-grade science teacher, at the
Shady
Hill
School
in
Cambridge, MA
has written a book titled Physics by Design: Classroom-tested Activities Using
ROBOLAB and LEGO. Barbara
started teaching Physics by
Design several years ago as a way to teach students engineering as well as
science. Traditionally,
engineering is rarely taught below the college level. However, it has
much to offer younger students. First
of all, it is engaging. Students have a chance to design and build their own
projects and have the satisfaction of actually making something work.
Second, engineering projects are a powerful way to teach and reinforce
science and math concepts. Third,
introducing engineering at a younger age encourages students, particularly
female students, to consider it as a career.
At the moment, the majority of female engineering students report that
they entered engineering because they have a parent who is an engineer.
Seeing what engineers do while they are still in middle school widens
the horizons of all of the other girls.
Physics
by Design was inspired by the work of the Center for Engineering Educational
Outreach (CEEO) at
Tufts
University
in
Medford,
MA. The CEEO is dedicated to bringing
engineering into the K-12 classroom. They have had great success in
integrating engineering into mathematics and science classes, as well as reading,
writing social studies, and art classes, in schools across the country.
We are hopeful that this book intended for students in middle schools will
help bringing engineering into the K-12 classroom.
Barbara's second
and third editions are now available. The second edition provides many projects and
experiments that utilize both the the LEGO RCX and the NXT controllers.
The third edition expands projects and activities and introduces the
MINDSTORMS software for programming the NXT. Click on one or the other
of the Physics by Design buttons to read the
Preface and study the Contents. Then place your order.
LabVIEW
Lessons:
Classroom
Activities for Learning and Using LabVIEW with LEGO Mindstorms
Over
the years, I have seen many teachers provide students with pre-built models so
that they concentrate on the computational thinking and others give pre-written
codes so that the students will concentrate on the building. While I believe
there are merits to learning both skills, it always seems to work better when
they are not done in isolation. Barbara has developed a number of activities
that require the students to use both skills. Further, she does it through
presenting open-ended problems, problems where every team of students will have
a different answer. In the time of standardization (standard curriculum,
standardized tests, and so on), it is great to see something that pushes
diversity in thought. Students will learn far more by looking at how their
classmates have solved the problem if the classmates have solutions that differ
from their own. Further, open-ended problems allow students to fail along the
way to solving the problem. Learning from one’s own mistakes is a powerful way
to understand new concepts and retain that understanding long past the end of
the class.
MECHANICAL
DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC SYSTEMS
This
book has been written for engineers to serve as a first text on the packaging of
electronic systems. The material has
been written for an engineering student or for
a practicing professional
working as a mechanical or electrical engineer with
a company producing
electronic products or systems. The
engineering student should have
completed fundamental courses in the engineering sciences, thermal sciences and
materials as prerequisites. The
practicing professional will probably
be at the early stages of his or her
career and be more concerned with the technical details of the design
rather than the business strategy of a product line.
This
book is an introduction to the design of electronic systems from a mechanical
engineering perspective, although attention is given to circuit analysis that
may be of more interest to the electrical engineer.
As such it covers a very broad range of topics from the physics of
semiconductors to the design of advanced
high performance heat exchangers. To
accommodate this breadth, we have
divided the text into four independent
parts. The first, Part 1, which includes
three chapters, deals with foundations for design. Part
2 deals with the different levels of packaging electronic components and the
methods commonly used in manufacturing and assembly.
Analysis methods commonly employed to predict performance of
systems are covered in the six chapters included in Part 3. While
much of the analysis in industry is performed using specialized software
programs, we have emphasized a more theoretical approach that leads to closed
form solutions for simple problems. Part
4 of this text deals with reliability, with the theory of reliability supporting
this important topic presented in Chapter 15.
In addition to the basic coverage of the various measures of reliability,
the chapter includes a description of reliability models.
Also included is a discussion of statistical methods for predicting
failure including both the normal distribution function and the Weibull
distribution function. Chapter 16,
the final chapter discusses design methods to improve reliability.
Failure mechanisms are described to provide a better understanding of why
failures occur after some period of time in operation.
Reliability improvement is achieved by preferred part selection,
de-rating
and stress management, screening and accelerated testing.
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