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College House Enterprises, LLC is a small publisher of engineering textbooks for college and secondary school students.  Our books deal with science and engineering.  The emphasis is on hands-on design experience along with traditional engineering content.  Several of our titles describe methods for using LEGOs in teaching science and engineering concepts to students from 6 years of age to those much older.

The titles recently published and the status of the  manuscripts in progress are described below:

1.  Jim Dally working with Kevin Calabro, Bill Fourney, Guangming Zhang and other faculty members at the University of Maryland have completed the manuscript for the title:  Introduction to Engineering Design, Book 9, Fifth Edition: Engineering Skills and Hovercraft Missions.  The book is being used at the University of Maryland @ College Park for their entire first year class in engineering.  The 5th edition of this title was released in early August 2011 and it is available.

2.  Jim Dally and Bob Bonenberger have completed their work on a pair of new books titled: Mechanics I: Statics++ and Mechanics II: Mechanics of Materials+.  These books have replace the title "Design Analysis of Structural Elements", which was in its 4th edition.  The emphasis on design in these basic mechanics courses has been retained in the new treatment.  Mechanics I:  Statics ++ and Mechanics II: Mechanics of Materials+ are both currently available from college bookstores and on-line from our website.

3.  Jim Dally and Arun Shukla have completed their work on Experimental Solid Mechanics, which is intended for senior level and early level graduate students.  The book was released in mid May 2010 and exhibited at the annual meeting of the Society for Experimental Mechanics in early June 2010. This textbook has already been adopted by more than 25 colleges and we expect additional adoptions in 2012-13.

4.  Guangming Zhang has completed the new edition of his title Engineering Design with Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire, Version 5.0, M030.  We have released this title it is available for the fall 2011 semester.  Reviews of this book indicate that it is the most compete text for its coverage of Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire available today.  We will terminate the sale of Version 4.0 of this tile in July of 2012.

5.  Barbara Bratzel who has already written three popular books for middle school students has complete a new title LABVIEW Lessons: Learning to Program the Mindstorms NXT and Programming to Learn Robotics, Science, and Math. The first LABVIEW Education Edition version of the software was released in the fall of 2009 and the newest version was released in April of 2011.  Barbara's new book was released this summer and is available.  Check our title buttons and click on LabVIEW to explore its content.

6.  We have signed and agreement with Semia Education Technology in Beijing for a Chinese translation of Barbara Bratzel's Physics by Design, 3rd Edition.  This book will be printed in color and used in middle and high schools in China.

7.  Guangming Zhang has completed the manuscript for the his new textbook titled Engineering Analysis with Pro/Mechanica and ANYSIS.  We have just released this title and it is available for classes or for the professional modeler performing engineering analysis.

8.  We have signed an agreement with Overseas Press India, PL for the printing (in English) and distributing in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Male, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Bhutan.  Six of our active titles will published with paperback covers during 2012.

These titles are briefly described on other pages of this website.  More information about each title can be found on its individual title page.  Click on the Titles button, located at the top of this page.  You will be given access to a column of buttons which in turn is used to access the pages describing a title in considerable detail.

Review copies of our titles are available upon request.  Please state your University, Department and the courses for which you are responsible when making your request.

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If you are a prospective author, we would like to discuss the possibility of College House Enterprises, LLC serving as your publisher.   Please call Jim Dally on (865) 558 6111.

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