Engineering category: 12393 books
Wind Wizard
Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
With Wind Wizard, Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Alan Davenport (1932-2009), the father of modern wind engineering, who investigated how wind navigates the obstacle course of the earth's natural and built environments--and how, when not properly heeded, wind causes buildings and bridges to...
Design Paradigms
Case Histories of Error and Judgment in Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1994
From ancient Greek temples to twentieth-century towers, engineers have learned more about design from failure than success. The concept of error, according to the author, is central to the design process. As a way of explaining the enduring aspects of engineering design, he relates stories of some...
by Nathan Meehan, Tarek Ahmed
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Reservoir management is concerned with the geoscience and reservoir/production engineering required to plan and optimize the development of discovered or producing oil and gas assets. One of the only books to cover both management and engineering issues, Advanced Reservoir Management and Engineering...
by Ashok Naimpally, Hema Ramachandran, Caroline Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
The book provides a comprehensive review of lifelong learning, information literacy and internships including assessment techniques for lifelong learning, teamwork and information literacy as defined by the ABET criteria. It also discusses critical thinking skills for scientists and engineers and...
A Life Constructed
Reflections on Breaking Barriers and Building Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2013
Growing up on the south side of Chicago in a poor, black, working-class neighborhood, Delon Hampton realized early on that any success he would achieve in life, he had to create on his own. Having earned a place at college, he decided to focus on civil engineering. After completing his graduate and...
Civil Engineering Solutions
An Innovative Guide to advanced civil engineering concepts
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Engineering, Medical, Chartered Accounting and Law are a few professions that are considered to be good for one’s status, salary and other perquisites. But, just managing one’s admission into professional institutions does not make a person successful professionally.This book has eleven levels. The...
by Matthew Frederick, John Kuprenas
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
Providing unique, accessible lessons on engineering, this title in the bestselling 101 Things I Learned® series is a perfect resource for students, recent graduates, general readers, and even seasoned professionals.
An experienced civil engineer presents the physics and fundamentals underlying...
by C. Jotin Khisty, Jamshid Mohammadi, Adjo Amekudzi
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2012
This extensively revised comprehensive textbook, covering a wide range of topics, is suitable for courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels, each with a different emphasis. There is more than enough material to cover two semesters of an undergraduate course, as well as a one semester graduate...
Statistical Monitoring of Complex Multivatiate Processes
With Applications in Industrial Process Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2012
The development and application of multivariate statistical techniques in process monitoring has gained substantial interest over the past two decades in academia and industry alike. Initially developed for monitoring and fault diagnosis in complex systems, such techniques have been refined and applied...
by Kumar Molugaram, G Shanker Rao, Anil Shah
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
Statistical Techniques for Transportation Engineering is written with a systematic approach in mind and covers a full range of data analysis topics, from the introductory level (basic probability, measures of dispersion, random variable, discrete and continuous distributions) through more generally...
Engineering Money
Financial Fundamentals for Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2011
There are many text books about engineering design and some include project evaluation techniques. There are text books on accounting methods and yet others on business management. This book does not aim to replace these specialized texts but brings together the elements of these subjects that young...
by Timothy J. Ross
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The latest update on this popular textbook
The importance of concepts and methods based on fuzzy logic and fuzzy set theory has been rapidly growing since the early 1990s and all the indications are that this trend will continue in the foreseeable future. Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications,...
Service Systems Management and Engineering
Creating Strategic Differentiation and Operational Excellence
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
The ultimate instructional guide to achieving success in the service sector
Already responsible for employing the bulk of the U.S. workforce, service-providing industries continue to increase their economic dominance. Because of this fact, these companies are looking for talented new service...
by Garold (Gary) D. Oberlender
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2014
The Latest, Most Effective Engineering and Construction project Management Strategies
Fully revised throughout, this up-to-date guide presents the principles and techniques of managing engineering and construction projects from the initial conceptual phase, through design and construction, to completion....