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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 to use 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.  Barbara Bratzel has completed the third edition of her book "Physics by Design" that features the NXT micro-controller that is now the brains of their popular MINDSTORMS kit.  Barbara's new third edition which describes new software for the NXT and it includes new experiments for both physics and mathematics.  Barbara was on schedule with her manuscript and College House released the title on June 1, 2009.

2.  Jim Dally working with Kevin Calabro, Bill Fourney, Gary Pertmer, Wesley Lawson, Bruce Jacob, Vincent Brannigan and Guangming Zhang have completed the third edition of the title:  Introduction to Engineering Design, Book 9, Third Edition: Engineering Skills and Hovercraft Missions.  The book is now available is currently being used at the University of Maryland @ College Park for their entire first year class in engineering.  We plan to publish a 4th edition of this title late in 2009 so it will be available for the spring 2010 semester.

3.  Bill Church a Physics teacher at Littleton High School is currently working with Natasha Perova and Tony Ford on a new Lego Engineering/Science book that is intended to be used as a supplement by high school Physics and Science teachers.  We now have the manuscript for this book and plan for the release of the title by mid July, 2009.

4.  Jim Dally and Bob Bonenberger have begun work on a pair of new books titled :Mechanics I: Statics and Introductory Strength of Materials" and "Mechanics II: Mechanics of Materials".  These books will replace the title "Design Analysis of Structural Elements", which is in its 4th edition.  The emphasis on design in these basic mechanics courses has been retained in the new treatment.  Both titles have been drafted and are now undergoing extensive proof reading.  We expect to publish the two titles late in 2009 so they will be available for the spring 2010 semester.

5.  Eric Wang, one of our favorite authors, has begun working with Chris Rogers on a new version of LabVIEW for the NXT.  We are hopeful that Eric will have time in his busy schedule to write the book and that we will be able to publish it sometime in the near future.

6.  Jim Dally and Arun Shukla met on June 1, 2009 to begin planning of a new title on Experimental Measurements: Displacements, Strain and Stress intended for senior level and early level graduate students.  We expect to begin writing in 2010 with a goal of completing the manuscript in 12 to 18 months.

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, to access the column of buttons which in turn is used to access the title pages.

Review copies of our titles are available upon request.  Please state your School system and School or University and  Department and the courses that you teach when making your request.

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

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