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Thinking Like an Engineerspecifically designed to utilize an active learning environment for first-year engineering courses. MyEngineeringLab for Thinking Like an Engineer is a complete digital solution for your first-year engineering course. MyEngineeringLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program that truly engages students as it offers customized, self-paced learning with instant feedback. Students will be prepared ahead of class, allowing you to spend class time focusing on active learning.Teaching and Learning ExperienceThis program will provide a better teaching and learning experience-for you and your students. It will help:Personalize Learning: MyEngineeringLab provides students with a personalized interactive learning environment, where they can learn at their own pace and measure their progress. Encourage Guided Inquiry: To create meaningful learning experiences, in-class activities include collaborative problem solving, computer-based activities, and hands-on experiments. Reinforce and Expand on the Activities: Homework assignments and review sections help students conceptualize topics.Customize your Course: Content can be customized to match the topic organization in your course syllabi. Keep Your Course Current: Content is refreshed to provide the most up-to-date information for your course.Note: You are purchasing the standalone text. MyEngineeringLab does not come automatically packaged with the text. To purchase MyEngineeringLab, search for ISBN-10: 0133808483 / ISBN-13: 9780133808483. That package contains ISBN-10: 0133593215 / ISBN-13: 9780133593211 and ISBN-10: 0133595625 / ISBN-13: 9780133595628. MyEngineeringLab is not a self-paced technology and should only be purchased when required by an instructor.
Contents
PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii Part 1 ENGINEERING ESSENTIALS 1 CHAPTER 1 EVERYDAY ENGINEERING 6 1.1 CHOOSING A CAREER 6 1.2 CHOOSING ENGINEERING AS A CAREER 7 1.3 NAE GRAND CHALLENGES FOR ENGINEERING 9 1.4 CHOOSING A SPECIFIC ENGINEERING FIELD 12 1.5 ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY-A RELATED FIELD 20 1.6 GATHERING INFORMATION 22 1.7 PURSUING STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES 25 REVIEW QUESTIONS 36 CHAPTER 2 ETHICS 40 2.1 ETHICAL DECISION MAKING 41 2.2 PLAGIARISM 46 2.3 ENGINEERING CREED 47 2.4 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 48 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 50 CHAPTER 3 DESIGN AND TEAMWORK 57 3.1 DESIGN 57 3.4 GENERATING IDEAS 61 3.5 COMPARING DESIGNS AND MAKING DECISIONS 65 3.6 PROTOTYPING AND TESTING 66 3.7 SUSTAINABILITY 68 3.9 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: PERIOD ANALYSIS 76 3.10 PROJECT TIMELINE 79 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 81 MINI DESIGN PROJECTS 82 CHAPTER 4 ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION 86 4.1 BASIC PRESENTATION SKILLS 87 4.2 SAMPLE PRESENTATIONS 89 4.3 BASIC TECHNICAL WRITING SKILLS 92 4.4 COMMON TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION FORMATS 96 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 102 REVIEW QUESTIONS 109 CHAPTER 5 ESTIMATION 114 5.1 GENERAL HINTS FOR ESTIMATION 117 5.5 ESTIMATION USING MODELING 121 5.6 SIGNIFICANT FIGURES 121 5.7 REASONABLENESS 125 5.8 NOTATION 129 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 132 REVIEW QUESTIONS 135 CHAPTER 6 SOLVEM 136 6.1 DEFINING SOLVEM 136 6.2 REPRESENTING FINAL RESULTS 142 6.3 AVOIDING COMMON MISTAKES 143 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 146 REVIEW QUESTIONS 149 Part 2 UBIQUITOUS UNITS 151 CHAPTER 7 FUNDAMENTAL DIMENSIONS AND BASE UNITS 153 7.1 THE METRIC SYSTEM 154 7.2 OTHER UNIT SYSTEMS 157 7.3 CONVERSION PROCEDURE FOR UNITS 158 7.4 CONVERSIONS INVOLVING MULTIPLE STEPS 161 7.5 CONVERSIONS INVOLVING "NEW" UNITS 165 7.6 DERIVED DIMENSIONS AND UNITS 167 7.7 EQUATION LAWS 171 7.8 CONVERSION INVOLVING EQUATIONS 174 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 177 REVIEW QUESTIONS 182 CHAPTER 8 UNIVERSAL UNITS 188 8.1 FORCE 188 8.2 WEIGHT 191 8.3 DENSITY 193 8.4 AMOUNT 197 8.5 TEMPERATURE 201 8.6 PRESSURE 204 8.7 GAS PRESSURE 209 8.8 ENERGY 211 8.9 POWER 215 8.10 EFFICIENCY 217 8.11 ELECTRICAL CONCEPTS 222 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 232 REVIEW QUESTIONS 242 CHAPTER 9 DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS 248 9.1 CONSTANTS WITH UNITS 248 9.2 COMMON DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS 251 9.3 DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS 254 9.4 RAYLEIGH'S METHOD 257 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 266 REVIEW QUESTIONS 270 Part 3 SCRUPULOUS WORKSHEETS 275 TIME MANAGEMENT 277 CHAPTER 10 EXCEL WORKBOOKS 280 10.1 CELL REFERENCES 281 10.3 LOGIC AND CONDITIONALS 292 10.4 LOOKUP AND DATA VALIDATION 300 10.5 CONDITIONAL FORMATTING 305 10.6 SORTING AND FILTERS 308 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 315 REVIEW QUESTIONS 329 CHAPTER 11 GRAPHICAL SOLUTIONS 342 11.1 GRAPHING TERMINOLOGY 342 11.2 PROPER PLOTS 343 11.4 GRAPH INTERPRETATION 353 11.6 GRAPHICAL SOLUTIONS 362 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 370 REVIEW QUESTIONS 381 CHAPTER 12 MODELS AND SYSTEMS 393 12.1 LINEAR FUNCTIONS 395 12.2 LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS 398 12.3 POWER FUNCTIONS 413 12.4 EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS 417 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 422 REVIEW QUESTIONS 432 CHAPTER 13 MATHEMATICAL MODELS 445 13.1 SELECTING A TRENDLINE TYPE 446 13.2 INTERPRETING LOGARITHMIC GRAPHS 454 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 466 REVIEW QUESTIONS 476 CHAPTER 14 STATISTICS 483 14.1 HISTOGRAMS 484 14.2 STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR 487 14.3 DISTRIBUTIONS 490 14.4 CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS 496 14.5 STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (SPC) 499 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 514 REVIEW QUESTIONS 523 Part 4 PUNCTILIOUS CHAPTER 15 ALGORITHMS 528 15.1 SCOPE 528 15.2 WRITTEN ALGORITHMS 530 15.3 GRAPHICAL ALGORITHMS 532 15.4 ALGORITHM BEST PRACTICES 537 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 544 REVIEW QUESTIONS 547 CHAPTER 16 MATLAB VARIABLES AND DATA TYPES 550 16.1 VARIABLE BASICS 551 16.2 NUMERIC TYPES AND SCALARS 553 16.3 VECTORS 557 16.4 MATRICES 566 16.5 CHARACTER STRINGS 574 16.6 CELL ARRAYS 577 16.7 STRUCTURE ARRAYS 584 16.8 SAVING AND RESTORING VALUES 587 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 589 REVIEW QUESTIONS 593 CHAPTER 17 PROGRAMS AND FUNCTIONS 596 17.1 PROGRAMS 596 17.2 FUNCTIONS 606 17.3 DEBUGGING MATLAB CODE 612 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 615 REVIEW QUESTIONS 621 CHAPTER 18 18.1 INPUT 627 18.2 OUTPUT 633 18.3 PLOTTING 637 18.4 POLYFIT 644 18.5 MICROSOFT EXCEL I/O 650 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 655 REVIEW QUESTIONS 664 CHAPTER 19 LOGIC AND CONDITIONALS 673 19.1 RELATIONAL AND LOGICAL OPERATORS 674 19.2 LOGICAL VARIABLES 676 19.4 switch STATEMENTS 686 19.5 ERRORS AND WARNINGS 689 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 692 REVIEW QUESTIONS 699 CHAPTER 20 LOOPING STRUCTURES 709 20.1 for LOOPS 709 20.2 while LOOPS 719 INCLASS ACTIVITIES 735 REVIEW QUESTIONS 744 COMPREHENSION CHECK ANSWERS 755 INDEX 772
