Introduction by Arogyaswami Paulraj, Emeritus Professor at Stanford University (USA)
The third edition of Introduction to Optimum Design offers a methodical, simplified, and rigorous approach to engineering design optimization. It uses straightforward examples to highlight various ideas and processes and shows how they can be applied to engineering design issues. Throughout the book, there is emphasis on and illustration of the formulation of a design problem as an optimization problem. MATLAB® and Excel are included as teaching and learning tools.
Up and Running with AutoCAD 2011: 2D and 3D Drawing and Modeling provides an introduction to the fundamental concepts of AutoCAD. To aid beginning students, these ideas have been reduced to simple, understandable explanations. Every chapter explains the new idea or directive along with its significance. The opportunity to apply recently acquired knowledge to a practical exercise, drawing, or model is provided to readers. Additionally, they can assess their understanding through drawing exercises and chapter-ending tests. Three sections make up the book's structure: Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3. Level 1 provides extensive coverage of numerous subjects. The entire set of fundamental knowledge required by an intermediate user is covered in its chapters. Next, students can work on moderate to complex drawings—if not necessarily set them up and manage them. Level 2 is designed for more experienced users who work as independent contractors, full-time AutoCAD draftsmen, CAD managers, or architects and are responsible for all tasks. Depth is the aim here, and to explore more advanced options, several features that were not considered critically important in Level 1 are revisited. Advanced topics required to set up and manage complex drawings are also introduced. The focus of Level 3 is 3D. It is strongly advised to have a firm understanding of the first two levels before beginning these chapters. All facets of AutoCAD solid modeling, including lighting and rendering, are covered in the 3D material.
a manual covering the core ideas, uses, protocols, algorithms, and new challenges as well as research findings. It is appropriate for both novice and seasoned researchers because it provides information on both the fundamental and specialized topics in the field.
This book, which was written by top authorities on optical phase microscopy, provides a thorough overview of phase microscopy and nanoscopy methods for use in biomedical settings. These methods include digital holographic microscopy, phase contrast microscopy, optical coherence tomography, differential interference contrast (DIC) microscopy, tomographic phase microscopy, spectral-domain phase detection, and the use of nanoparticles in phase nanoscopy. The Editors support the theoretical coverage with applied content and examples on designing systems and interpreting results in bio- and nanoscience applications. They also teach biomedical and optical engineers how to visualize unstained specimens using phase microscopy.
This book, which is a novel kind of text for readers who are not electrical engineering majors, meets the need that all educated people understand the fundamentals of electronic technology and the Internet. Electronics and Communications for Scientists and Engineers was written to satisfy the most recent recommendations of the ABET Criteria 2000 standards for updated engineering curricula. It was class-tested with 300 students at Northwestern University. The fundamental subjects of electronics and communications covered in this text are those that practitioners and students in a variety of engineering specialties and applied sciences must comprehend. It includes the best textbook explanation, in layman's terms, of the electronic foundations of the World Wide Web. For science and liberal arts majors who must take a digital technology elective that covers computing and communications, it is also suitable.
discusses groundwater's function in the hydrologic cycle, water supply, contamination, and building-related problems. This book can be used as a reference by professional researchers as well as by students and instructors in the geosciences (with a focus on hydrology, hydrogeology, and environmental science).
Over the past 15 years, the field of solar cells has seen a massive influx of new ideas; the conversation on energy transfer has become much richer, and nanostructures and nanomaterials have completely changed the potential for new technological advancements. But until solar energy can outcompete more established generating techniques like fossil fuels, it will not be able to replace them as the primary source of electricity in the world's markets. Dr. Stephen Fonash's seminal text has been updated to include cutting-edge topics in plasmonics, multi-exiton generation processes, nanostructures, and nanomaterials like quantum dots. This new edition points the way toward greater efficiency and cheaper production. The book's new organization balances the first edition's semiconductor coverage with a focus on thin-films, and makes the book easier to read by moving many complex equations to appendices. Furthermore, it now uses simulations in the well-known AMPS computer code that the author developed to illustrate physical principles.
By allowing devices and service providers to choose what to do at any given time, ideally without human intervention, autonomous networking seeks to address the growing issues brought about by increasingly complex networks. The ultimate goal is to create self-managing networks that can interface with one another and adjust their behavior to always give the end user the best possible experience. This book provides an understanding of autonomous network management concepts, methodologies, and architectures, along with an evaluation of them and lessons gained from current field initiatives. Leading academic institutions, Orange Labs, Motorola, Ericsson, and the ANA EU Project are among the industry groups that have contributed to it. Each of these groups offers a chapter that looks at the international research projects that they are involved in, like the EU Autonomic Network Architecture Project and the Ambient Networks EU Project. These chapters review recent advancements and show how new architectures, models, protocols, and mechanisms for network equipment in the future are defined using autonomic management principles.
displays the key techniques that medical product designers need to be aware of in order to guarantee that their products are compliant. Based on the authors' years of experience in academia (the R&D phase) and industry (the commercialization phase), this book compiles established design protocols and places them in a clear medical context.
The practical aspects of building computerized simulation studies to analyze and interpret real phenomena are still being introduced to aspiring and practicing actuaries, engineers, computer scientists, and others in the fifth edition of Ross's Simulation. In order to find efficient, precise solutions to issues in a range of fields and forecast future events, readers are taught to apply the results of these analyses to those problems. This most recent edition includes brand-new content on variance reduction, such as control variables' application to regression analysis and how to estimate expected return when playing blackjack. The fifth edition also provides new details on the alias method for creating discrete random variables and extends the use of Markov chain monte carlo methods. A computer can be used to generate random numbers, and Ross's Simulation, Fifth Edition explains how to use these numbers to generate the behavior of a stochastic model over time. This provides the statistics required for both validating and analyzing simulated data.
