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Author E Benavides
This book provides engineers and students with a general framework focusing on the processes of designing new engineering products. The procedures covered by the framework lead the reader to the best trade-offs to ensure maximum satisfaction of the customer’s needs,....
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Introduction to Photovoltaic System Design
Author Balfour
Photovoltaic system design is both an art and a science. Good design requires the integration of many different forms of knowledge, including physics, aesthetics, business acumen, engineering, and architecture. It also requires a systems approach that combines and a....
Release Date 2011/11 -
Emerging Nanotechnologies in Dentistry
Author Waqar Ahmed , Karthikeyan Subramani
New nanomaterials are leading to a range of emerging dental treatments that utilize more biomimetic materials that more closely duplicate natural tooth structure (or bone, in the case of implants). The use of nanostructures that will work in harmony with the body’s ....
Release Date 2011/11 -
Practical Antenna Handbook 5/e, 5th Edition
Author George W. Hippisley , Joseph J. Carr
THE DEFINITIVE ANTENNA REFERENCE--FULLY REVISED AND EXPANDED!Design and build your own antennas with the help of this unique guide. Updated and revised to provide clear answers to questions frequently asked by hobbyists and electronics technicians, Practical Antenn....
Release Date 2011/10 -
Electrical Engineering 101, 3rd Edition
Author Darren Ash
Electrical Engineering 101 covers the basic theory and practice of electronics, starting by answering the question "What is electricity?" It goes on to explain the fundamental principles and components, relating them constantly to real-world examples. Sections on to....
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Author Martin Gardner , Ron Graham , Persi Diaconis
Magical Mathematics reveals the secrets of fun-to-perform card tricks—and the profound mathematical ideas behind them—that will astound even the most accomplished magician. Persi Diaconis and Ron Graham provide easy, step-by-step instructions for each trick, explain....
Release Date 2011/10 -
A Survey of Computational Physics
Author Cristian C. Bordeianu , José Páez , Rubin H. Landau
Computational physics is a rapidly growing subfield of computational science, in large part because computers can solve previously intractable problems or simulate natural processes that do not have analytic solutions. The next step beyond Landau's First Course in....
Release Date 2011/10 -
Analog Design and Simulation using OrCAD Capture and PSpice
Author Dennis Fitzpatrick
Analog Design and Simulation using OrCAD Capture and PSpice provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the Cadence/OrCAD family of Electronic Design Automation software for analog design and simulation. Organized into 22 chapters, each with exercises at the en....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Author Jim Williams , Bob Dobkin
Analog circuit and system design today is more essential than ever before. With the growth of digital systems, wireless communications, complex industrial and automotive systems, designers are challenged to develop sophisticated analog solutions. This comprehensive ....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Author John Guckenheimer , Stephen P. Ellner
From controlling disease outbreaks to predicting heart attacks, dynamic models are increasingly crucial for understanding biological processes. Many universities are starting undergraduate programs in computational biology to introduce students to this rapidly grow....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Decoding Steve Jobs: Select Commentary from HBR.org
Author Harvard Business Review
Observations on Steve Job's legacy - and Apple's leadership future - are only just beginning. In recent years, many leading thinkers have contributed their thoughts on the Jobs phenomenon on HBR.org. We've compiled a few of the most insightful here, and we invite....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Mathematics and Physics for Programmers, Second Edition
Author Danny Kodicek , John Patrick Flynt
The casual game market continues to expand, and with the use of Flash growing and the increased popularity of the iPhone and other mobile gaming devices, developers have an exciting new route to market. But many of these budding game programmers find that they're m....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Author Nam-Trung Nguyen
The ability to mix minute quantities of fluids is critical in a range of recent and emerging techniques in engineering, chemistry and life sciences, with applications as diverse as inkjet printing, pharmaceutical manufacturing, specialty and hazardous chemical manuf....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Ceramic Thick Films for MEMS and Microdevices
Author Robert A. Dorey
The MEMS (Micro Electro-Mechanical Systems) market returned to growth in 2010. The total MEMS market is worth about $6.5 billion, up more than 11 percent from last year and nearly as high as its historic peak in 2007. MEMS devices are used across sectors as diverse ....
Release Date 2011/09 -
Starting Electronics, 4th Edition
Author Keith Brindley
Starting Electronics is unrivalled as a highly practical introduction for technicians, non-electronic engineers, software engineers, students, and hobbyists. Keith Brindley introduces readers to the functions of the main component types, their uses, and the basic pr....
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Author Howard Wainer
Uneducated Guesses challenges everything our policymakers thought they knew about education and education reform, from how to close the achievement gap in public schools to admission standards for top universities. In this explosive book, Howard Wainer uses statisti....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Ludwig's Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants, 4th Edition
Author A. Kayode Coker , PhD
This complete revision of Applied Process Design for Chemical and Petrochemical Plants, Volume 1 builds upon Ernest E. Ludwig’s classic text to further enhance its use as a chemical engineering process design manual of methods and proven fundamentals. This new editi....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Linear Circuit Design Handbook
Author Hank Zumbahlen , Engineeri Engineeri Analog Devices Inc.
This book enables design engineers to be more effective in designing discrete and integrated circuits by helping them understand the role of analog devices in their circuit design. Analog elements are at the heart of many important functions in both discrete a....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics, 3rd Edition
Author Simon Newman , John M. Seddon
Basic Helicopter Aerodynamics is widely appreciated as an easily accessible, rounded introduction to the first principles of the aerodynamics of helicopter flight. Simon Newman has brought this third edition completely up to date with a full new set of illustrations....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Big Data Now: Current Perspectives from O'Reilly Radar
Author O'Reilly Radar Team
This collection represents the full spectrum of data-related content we’ve published on O’Reilly Radar over the last year. Mike Loukides kicked things off in June 2010 with “What is data science?” and from there we’ve pursued the various threads and themes that natu....
Release Date 2011/08 -
Separation Process Engineering: Includes Mass Transfer Analysis, Third Edition
Author Phillip C. Wankat
The Definitive, Fully Updated Guide to Separation Process Engineering–Now with a Thorough Introduction to Mass Transfer AnalysisSeparation Process Engineering, Third Edition, is the most comprehensive, accessible guide available on modern separation processes and th....
Release Date 2011/07 -
Introduction to Digital Systems: Modeling, Synthesis, and Simulation Using VHDL
Author Mohammed Ferdjallah
Digital systems design requires a rigorous modeling and simulation analysis that eliminates design risks and potential harm to users. Introduction to Digital Systems Modeling and Simulation allows readers to model and simulate digital principles using Very High Spee....
Release Date 2011/07 -
Silicon Technologies: Ion Implantation and Thermal Treatment
Author Annie Baudrant
The main purpose of this book is to remind new engineers in silicon foundry, the fundamental physical and chemical rules in major Front end treatments: oxidation, epitaxy, ion implantation and impurities diffusion.
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Matrix Completions, Moments, and Sums of Hermitian Squares
Author Hugo J. Woerdeman , Mihály Bakonyi
Intensive research in matrix completions, moments, and sums of Hermitian squares has yielded a multitude of results in recent decades. This book provides a comprehensive account of this quickly developing area of mathematics and applications and gives complete proof....
Release Date 2011/07 -
Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Applied Elasticity, Fifth Edition
Author Saul K. Fenster , Ansel C. Ugural
Long the leading text for students and practitioners in advanced materials mechanics, this new edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the newest techniques, supporting more advanced study and professional design and analysis for the coming decade. More compl....
Release Date 2011/06 -
Author Sarah Lewis
Positive Psychology at Work brings the fields of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry together for the first time to provide leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to achieving organizational excellence.Draws together positive psychology and ....
Release Date 2011/06 -
Functional Textiles for Improved Performance, Protection and Health
Author G. Sun , N Pan
The textile industry is increasingly based on ongoing innovation and development of higher performance products, and the field of functional textiles is no exception. This book explores the development of textiles with a wide range of functions, with the aim of impr....
Release Date 2011/06 -
Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field Chemicals and Fluids
Author Johannes Fink
Oilfield chemical demand has risen 4.3% annually through 2011. Gains are driven by a rise in rig counts, more use of well stimulation and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods, and more deepwater drilling and production. Petroleum Engineer's Guide to Oil Field C....
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Chemical Process Safety: Fundamentals with Applications, Third Edition
Author Joseph F. Louvar , Daniel A. Crowl
A new edition of the best-selling guide to chemical process safety - with important new content on reactivity, safe design, and much moreExtensive updates throughout, including an all-new chapter on chemical reactivity, responding to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board'....
Release Date 2011/05 -
Vhdl for Logic Synthesis, Third Edition
Author Andrew Rushton
Making VHDL a simple and easy-to-use hardware description languageMany engineers encountering VHDL (very high speed integrated circuits hardware description language) for the first time can feel overwhelmed by it. This book bridges the gap between the VHDL language ....
Release Date 2011/05