Exploring Engineering

George Wise , Philip Kosky , Robert T. Balmer , William D. Keat 지음

elsevier 2006년 09월 11일 출간

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Winner of the Best New Undergraduate Textbook Award from the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association of Publishers! Exploring Engineering was developed to meet the need for a better way to introduce incoming engineering students to the fundamental concepts at the heart of all engineering disciplines. It was also created to show students in a vivid way the great array of opportunities and possibilities of today's engineering fields-from classical mechanical engineering to bioengineering and mechatronics. This is the first text to introduce nearly all of the major engineering areas, and to do so with a strong interdisciplinary case study approach. This approach better prepares and enables students to draw upon knowledge not only from their own particular field of expertise, but also from related or even distantly related engineering and technical and scientific fields, allowing them to become more versatile within their future employment.Exploring Engineering is flexible enough to offer a variety of approaches to the introduction of modern engineering for new students, while still providing the most important essentials that hold all engineering disciplines together, particularly the mathematical, quantitative basis of engineering as well as the modern computer tools that make today's engineering design so efficient and accurate.* Introduces the fundamental physical, chemical, and material foundations for all engineering work, including motion, force, conservation of energy and matter* Explains the workings of simple electrical circuits, computer logic, control and mechatronics, stress/strain diagrams, bioengineering, stoichiometry * Offers applications of engineering ethics？？using an extended case study metaphor: the modern automobile * Provides simple data spreadsheets and other analytical quot;tools of the tradequot; to introduce students to the concepts of theoretical and of empirical engineering

Foreword Part 1: Minds-on Chapter 1: What Engineers DoChapter 2: Key Elements of Engineering Analysis with an Introduction to theConcept of ForceChapter 3: How to solve problems and spreadsheet analysesChapter 4: Energy: Kinds, Conversion, and ConservationChapter 5: Chemical Energy of FuelsChapter 6: The Automotive Drive TrainChapter 7: Electrical CircuitsChapter 8: Logic and ComputersChapter 9: Control Systems Design and MechatronicsChapter 10: Kinematics and Traffic FlowChapter 11: Introduction to Materials EngineeringChapter 12: BioengineeringChapter 13: Introduction to Chemical EngineeringChapter 14: Cars of the Future - What Will They Be Like? Part 2: Hands-onChapter 15: Introduction to Engineering DesignChapter 16: Two Ground Rules for DesignChapter 17: Clarification of the TaskChapter 18: Generation of Alternative ConceptsChapter 19: Evaluation of Alternatives and Selection of a ConceptChapter 20: Detailed DesignChapter 21: Oral Design DefenseChapter 22: Manufacturing and TestingChapter 23: Performance EvaluationChapter 24: Design ReportChapter 25: An Example of a Design Competition: ？？A Bridge Too Far.？ Chapter 26: Closing Remarks on the Important Role of Design Projects

"Kosky, Wise, Balmer and Keat have developed a wonderful pedagogical text which provides a unique fresh perspective of first-year engineering education. This book enriches the content and facilitates the delivery of freshmen engineering courses. It is a very timely textbook."Ronald A. Perez, Ph.D., P.E.Associate Dean, Academic and Administrative AffairsCollege of Engineering and Applied ScienceUniversity of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

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저자(글) George Wise

저자(글) Philip Kosky

저자(글) Robert T. Balmer

저자(글) William D. Keat

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