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Design for Various Manufacturing Methods
Bryan Guns · Northeast Wisconsin Technical College
This textbook introduces students to design for manufacturing, guidelines for specific manufacturing processes, additive manufacturing methods, generative design, cost analysis of additive manufacturing methods, differences in 3D models and detail prints for various methods, and how to justify your design decision.
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Inventor Parametric Design: Level 1
Alex Bahl · Western Technical College
In the contents: 1.1.01: Overview of Technical Drawings in Engineering Design · 1.2.01: The Role of Peer Review in Engineering Design
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Street-Fighting Mathematics
Sanjoy Mahajan · Olin College of Engineering
An antidote to mathematical rigor mortis, teaching how to guess answers without needing a proof or an exact calculation. In problem solving, as in street fighting, rules are for fools: do whatever works—don't just stand there! Yet we often fear an unjustified leap even though it may land us on a correct result. Traditional mathematics teaching is largely about solving exactly stated problems exactly, yet life often hands us partly defined problems needing only moderately accurate solutions.
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INT 2080: Database Design (Watt and Eng)
Kunle Elebute · Prince George's Community College
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Distillation Science
Larry Coleman · LibreTexts
This is a ten-part series of technical articles on Distillation Science, as is currently practiced on an industrial level. It is organized as it would be used for the process design of large-scale distillation columns, which may differ from the way topics are introduced to students academically. As a part of distillation column design, these articles also involve the vapor-liquid equilibria (VLE) of binary systems, with potential extension to multi-component systems.
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Microwave and RF Design II - Transmission Lines
Michael Steer · North Carolina State University
The book series Microwave and RF Design is a comprehensive treatment of radio frequency (RF) and microwave design with a modern “systems-first” approach. A strong emphasis on design permeates the series with extensive case studies and design examples. Design is oriented towards cellular communications and microstrip design so that lessons learned can be applied to real-world design tasks.
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Linear Algebra
David Cherney, Tom Denton, & Andrew Waldron · University of California, Davis
Linear algebra is the study of vectors and linear transformations. This text is suitable for a sophomore level linear algebra course taught in about twenty-five lectures. It is designed both for engineering and science majors, but has enough abstraction to be useful for potential math majors. Our goal in writing it was to produce students who can perform computations with linear systems and also understand the concepts behind these computations.
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Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Michael Nielson · Y Combinator Research
Neural networks are one of the most beautiful programming paradigms ever invented. In the conventional approach to programming, we tell the computer what to do, breaking big problems up into many small, precisely defined tasks that the computer can easily perform. By contrast, in a neural network we don't tell the computer how to solve our problem. Instead, it learns from observational data, figuring out its own solution to the problem at hand.
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Introduction to Climate Science
Andreas Schmittner · Oregon State University
This book describes how Earth's climate is changing, how it has been changing in the recent geological past and how it may change in the future. It covers the physical sciences that build the foundations of our current understanding of global climate change such as radiation, Earth's energy balance, the greenhouse effect and the carbon cycle. Both natural and human causes for climate change are discussed. Impacts of climate change on natural and human systems are summarized.
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Implementing a One Address CPU in Logisim
Charles W. Kann III · Gettysburg College
This purpose of this monograph is to break the abstract understanding of a computer, and to explain a computer’s behavior in completely in mechanistic terms. It will deal specifically with the Central Processing Unit (CPU) of the computer, as this is where the magic happens. All other parts of a computer can be seen as just providing information for the CPU to operate on.
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Introductory Dynamics
Peter G. Steeneken · Delft University of Technology
In the contents: 02: Notation Math and Engineering Basics
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Applied Linear Algebra and Differential Equations
Jeffrey R. Chasnov · Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
These lecture notes are for a mathematics course offered to second-year engineering students. Material from our usual courses on linear algebra and differential equations have been combined into a single course (essentially, two half-semester courses) at the request of our Engineering School. I have tried my best to select the most essential and interesting topics from both courses, and to show how knowledge of linear algebra can improve students’ understanding of differential equations.
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Database Design 2e
Adrienne Watt · British Columbia Institute of Technology
This second edition of Database Design book covers the concepts used in database systems and the database design process.
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Mechatronics: Fundamentals, Design, Integration, and Validation
Guoming Zhu · Michigan State University
This book will be used for both undergraduate and graduate level mechatronic system courses. The intension is to cover contents ranging from mechatronic system modeling and control to specific mechatronic system hardware including sensor, actuator, and microcontroller. Two mechatronic system examples will be introduced as examples for the class lab sessions; they are mini-Segway and three-wheel cart mechatronic systems.
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Ecology and Environment: BIOL 124 at Hawaii Community College
Pamela Y. Scheffler · Hawaii Community College
In the contents: 10.02: Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering
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Introductory Statistics
Barbara Illowsky & Susan Dean · De Anza College
This text follows scope and sequence requirements of a one-semester introduction to statistics course and is geared toward students majoring in fields other than math or engineering. The text assumes some knowledge of intermediate algebra and focuses on statistics application over theory. Introductory Statistics includes innovative practical applications that make the text relevant and accessible, as well as collaborative exercises, technology integration problems, and statistics labs.
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Information and Entropy
Paul Penfield, Jr. · Massachusetts Institute of Technology
This text explores the ultimate limits to communication and computation, with an emphasis on the physical nature of information and information processing. Topics include: information and computation, digital signals, codes and compression, applications such as biological representations of information, logic circuits, computer architectures, and algorithmic information, noise, probability, error correction, reversible and irreversible operations, physics of computation, and quantum computation.
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Structural Analysis
Felix Udeyo · Temple University
This text is intended to teach students the methods and techniques for the analysis of structures. A sound knowledge of structures is a prerequisite for their proper design and ensures the structural integrity of civil engineering infrastructural systems. This textbook is designed for upper-level undergraduates studying civil engineering, construction engineering and management, and architecture. It is also useful for construction professionals seeking licensure in their field of practice.
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Electromagnetics II
Steven W. Ellingson · Virginia Tech
This text is intended as the primary textbook for the second semester of an undergraduate engineering electromagnetics sequence. It addresses magnetic force and the Biot-Savart law; general and lossy media; parallel plate and rectangular waveguides; parallel wire, microstrip, and coaxial transmission lines; AC current flow and skin depth; reflection and transmission at planar boundaries; fields in parallel plate, parallel wire, and microstrip transmission lines; optical fiber; and radiation.
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Introduction To MIPS Assembly Language Programming
Charles W. Kann III · Gettysburg College
This book was written to introduce students to assembly language programming in MIPS. As with all assembly language programming texts, it covers basic operators and instructions, subprogram calling, loading and storing memory, program control, and the conversion of the assembly language program into machine code.