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Thinking Like an Engineer: An Active Learning Approach, 2e, is specifically designed to utilize an active learning environment for first year engineering courses. In-class activities include collaborative problem-solving, computer-based activities, and hands-on experiments, encouraging guided inquiry. Homework assignments and review sections reinforce and expand on the activities. Content can be customized to match the topic organization in your course syllabi. Paired with Pearson’s new MyEngineeringLab, Thinking Like an Engineer, 2e, is a complete digital solution for your first year engineering course. MyEngineeringLab offers students customized, self-paced learning with instant feedback. Students will be prepared ahead of class, allowing you to spend class time focusing on active learning. Subscriptions to MyEngineeringLab are available to purchase online or packaged with your textbook (unique ISBN). Use the following ISBNs to purchase MyEngineeringLab: Thinking Like an Engineer, 2e & MyEngineeringLab with Pearson eText Student Access Code Card for Thinking Like an Engineer, 2e ISBN: 0132981386 This package includes the Thinking Like an Engineer, 2e textbook, an access card for MyEngineeringLab, and a Pearson eText Student Access Code Card for Thinking Like an Engineer, 2e. MyEngineeringLab with Pearson eText -- Access Card — for Thinking Like an Engineer, 2e ISBN: 0132766744   This stand-alone access card package contains an access code for MyEngineeringLab, and a Pearson eText student access code card for Thinking Like an Engineer, 2e eText.

Table of Contents:
PREFACE ix ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xvii Part 1 ENGINEERING ESSENTIALS 1 ENGINEERING IS AN . . . ITCH! 3 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 GATHERING INFORMATION 20 1.6 PURSUING STUDENT OPPORTUNITIES 22 REVIEW QUESTIONS 32 CHAPTER 2 ETHICS 36 2.1 ETHICAL DECISION MAKING 37 2.2 PLAGIARISM 42 2.3 ENGINEERING CREED 43 2.4 SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY 44 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 46 CHAPTER 3 DESIGN AND TEAMWORK 53 3.1 THE DESIGN PROCESS 53 3.2 BRAINSTORMING IN THE DESIGN PROCESS 55 3.3 EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN: PERIOD ANALYSIS 55 3.4 CRITERIA AND EVALUATION 58 3.5 SUSTAINABILITY 64 3.6 WORKING IN TEAMS 65 3.7 PROJECT TIMELINE 72 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 74 MINI DESIGN PROJECTS 75 CHAPTER 4 ENGINEERING COMMUNICATION 79 4.1 BASIC PRESENTATION SKILLS 80 4.2 SAMPLE PRESENTATIONS 82 4.3 BASIC TECHNICAL WRITING SKILLS 85 4.4 COMMON TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION FORMATS 89 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 95 REVIEW QUESTIONS 102 CHAPTER 5 ESTIMATION 107 5.1 GENERAL HINTS FOR ESTIMATION 110 5.2 ESTIMATION BY ANALOGY 112 5.3 ESTIMATION BY AGGREGATION 112 5.4 ESTIMATION BY UPPER AND LOWER BOUNDS 113 5.5 ESTIMATION USING MODELING 113 5.6 SIGNIFICANT FIGURES 114 5.7 REASONABLENESS 117 5.8 NOTATION 122 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 124 REVIEW QUESTIONS 127 CHAPTER 6 SOLVEM 128 6.1 DEFINING SOLVEM 128 6.2 REPRESENTING FINAL RESULTS 134 6.3 AVOIDING COMMON MISTAKES 134 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 138 REVIEW QUESTIONS 141 Part 2 UBIQUITOUS UNITS 143 HOW I STUDY 144 HOW ATTITUDES ARE ASSESSED: FOUR PROFILES 145 HOW MBTI HELPS INDIVIDUAL AND TEAM INTERACTIONS 147 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 157 7.4 CONVERSIONS INVOLVING MULTIPLE STEPS 160 7.5 CONVERSIONS INVOLVING “NEW” UNITS 164 7.6 DERIVED DIMENSIONS AND UNITS 166 7.7 EQUATION LAWS 168 7.8 CONVERSION INVOLVING EQUATIONS 171 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 173 REVIEW QUESTIONS 179 CHAPTER 8 UNIVERSAL UNITS 182 8.1 FORCE 182 8.2 WEIGHT 183 8.3 DENSITY 186 8.4 AMOUNT 190 8.5 TEMPERATURE 193 8.6 PRESSURE 196 8.7 GAS PRESSURE 202 8.8 ENERGY 204 8.9 POWER 207 8.10 EFFICIENCY 209 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 215 REVIEW QUESTIONS 224 CHAPTER 9 DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS 231 9.1 COMMON DIMENSIONLESS NUMBERS 231 9.2 DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS 233 9.3 RAYLEIGH’S METHOD 237 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 245 REVIEW QUESTIONS 249 Part 3 SCRUPULOUS WORKSHEETS 255 TIME MANAGEMENT 257 GOAL SETTING, BE REALISTIC 259 CHAPTER 10 EXCEL WORKBOOKS 262 10.1 CELL REFERENCES 263 10.2 FUNCTIONS IN EXCEL 266 10.3 LOGIC AND CONDITIONALS 273 10.4 LOOKUP AND DATA VALIDATION 280 10.5 CONDITIONAL FORMATTING 284 10.6 SORTING AND FILTERS 287 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 294 REVIEW QUESTIONS 304 CHAPTER 11 GRAPHICAL SOLUTIONS 318 11.1 GRAPHING TERMINOLOGY 318 11.2 PROPER PLOTS 319 11.3 AVAILABLE GRAPH TYPES IN EXCEL 326 11.4 GRAPH INTERPRETATION 328 11.5 MEANING OF THE LINE SHAPES 332 11.6 GRAPHICAL SOLUTIONS 337 11.7 AUTOMATED CALCULATIONS: ITERATION 342 11.8 AUTOMATED CALCULATIONS: SLIDER BARS 345 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 348 REVIEW QUESTIONS 358 CHAPTER 12 MODELS AND SYSTEMS 370 12.1 LINEAR FUNCTIONS 372 12.2 LINEAR RELATIONSHIPS 374 12.3 POWER FUNCTIONS 390 12.4 EXPONENTIAL FUNCTIONS 393 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 398 REVIEW QUESTIONS 405 CHAPTER 13 MATHEMATICAL MODELS 424 13.1 SELECTING A TRENDLINE TYPE 424 13.2 INTERPRETING LOGARITHMIC GRAPHS 433 13.3 CONVERTING SCALES TO LOG IN EXCEL 440 13.4 DEALING WITH LIMITATIONS OF EXCEL 442 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 449 REVIEW QUESTIONS 455 CHAPTER 14 STATISTICS 465 14.1 HISTOGRAMS 466 14.2 STATISTICAL BEHAVIOR 469 14.3 DISTRIBUTIONS 472 14.4 CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS 478 14.5 STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL (SPC) 480 14.6 STATISTICS IN EXCEL 487 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 492 REVIEW QUESTIONS 500 Part 4 PUNCTILIOUS PROGRAMMING 509 SOME ADVANTAGES OF COMPUTERS 510 HOW I LEARNED TO PROGRAM . . . 511 HOW I LEARNED TO PROGRAM . . . 512 CHAPTER 15 ALGORITHMS 515 15.1 SCOPE 515 15.2 WRITTEN ALGORITHMS 517 15.3 GRAPHICAL ALGORITHMS 519 15.4 ALGORITHM BEST PRACTICES 524 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 531 REVIEW QUESTIONS 533 CHAPTER 16 PROGRAMS AND FUNCTIONS 535 16.1 PROGRAMMING BASICS 535 16.2 PROGRAMS 539 16.3 MATRIX OPERATIONS 545 16.4 FUNCTIONS 549 16.5 DEBUGGING MATLAB CODE 553 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 555 REVIEW QUESTIONS 561 CHAPTER 17 INPUT/OUTPUT IN MATLAB 564 17.1 INPUT 564 17.2 OUTPUT 567 17.3 PLOTTING 570 17.4 POLYFIT 576 17.5 STATISTICS 582 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 587 REVIEW QUESTIONS 594 CHAPTER 18 LOGIC AND CONDITIONALS 600 18.1 TRUTH TABLES 600 18.2 BINARY NUMBERS 603 18.3 LOGIC AND RELATIONAL OPERATORS IN MATLAB 604 18.4 CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS IN MATLAB 605 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 610 REVIEW QUESTIONS 616 CHAPTER 19 LOOPING STRUCTURES 624 19.1 for LOOPS 624 19.2 while LOOPS 630 19.3 APPLICATION OF LOOPS: CELL ARRAYS AND CELL MATRICES 632 19.4 APPLICATION OF LOOPS: EXCEL I/O 636 19.5 APPLICATION OF LOOPS: GUI 643 IN-CLASS ACTIVITIES 656 REVIEW QUESTIONS 660 UMBRELLA PROJECTS BREAKEVEN ANALYSIS: SMALL PARTS 668 TRENDLINE ANALYSIS: HOOKE’S LAW 672 TRENDLINE ANALYSIS: PENDULUMS 675 TRENDLINE ANALYSIS: BOUNCING SPRINGS 680 MATHEMATICAL MODEL ANALYSIS: CANTILEVER BEAMS & CLEAN WATER 686 STATISTICAL ANALYSIS: CONFIGURATION MATTERS 695 MATLAB MINI-PROJECT: SECURING CYBERSPACE 699 MATLAB MINI-PROJECT: ADVANCE PERSONALIZED LEARNING 705 MATLAB MINI-PROJECT: DO YOU WANT TO PLAY A GAME? 709 MATLAB PROJECT: IMAGE PROCESSING 712 MATLAB PROJECT: DMV LINES 715 MATLAB PROJECT: DESIGNING A BETTER VACUUM 719 ANSWERS 724 INDEX 736


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780132766715
  • Publisher: Pearson Education (US)
  • Publisher Imprint: Pearson
  • Depth: 32
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 768
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: An Active Learning Approach
  • Width: 221 mm
  • ISBN-10: 013276671X
  • Publisher Date: 15 Mar 2012
  • Binding: Spiral bound
  • Edition: 2 Rev ed
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 30 mm
  • Weight: 1250 gr


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