Electronics: Project Management and Design - Softcover

Stadtmiller, D. Joseph

9780130127297: Electronics: Project Management and Design

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0130127299 ISBN 13: 9780130127297

Publisher: Pearson, 2000

For courses in Electronics Projects and Survey of Electronics in departments of Electronic Technology and Electronics Engineering Technology.

This text fills a fundamental void in electronics programs and better prepares new graduates for their first electronic projects on the job. The strategies established in the text will supply graduates with practical tools that will enhance their ability to perform. The text accomplishes this by reviewing the operations of a company, discussing teamwork and the role of the Electronics Professional, presenting methods of Project Management, defining an Engineering Problem Solving process, and discussing the practical aspects of an electronics project. Unlike existing texts, Electronics: Project Design and Management covers material as a project completed in a professional environment with specific applications of concurrent engineering principles.

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About the Author:

Brian Fagan is one of the leading archaeological writers in the world and an internationally recognized authority on world prehistory. He studied archaeology and anthropology at Pembroke College, Cambridge University, and then spent seven years in sub-Saharan Africa working in museums and in monument conservation and excavating early farming sites in Zambia and East Africa. He was one of the pioneers of multidisciplinary African history in the 1960s. Since 1967, he has been Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he has specialized in lecturing and writing about archaeology to wide audiences.

Professor Fagan has written six best-selling textbooks: Ancient Lives: An Introduction to Archaeology and Prehistory; In the Beginning; Archaeology: A Brief Introduction; World Prehistory; Ancient Civilizations (with Chris Scarre); and this volume-all published by Prentice Hall-which are used around the world. His general books include The Rape of the Nile, a classic history of Egyptology; The Adventure of Archaeology; TimeDetectives; Ancient North America; The Little Ice Age; and Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants. He was also General Editor of the Oxford Companion to Archaeology. In addition, he has published several scholarly monographs on African archaeology and numerous specialized articles in national and international journals. He is also an expert on multimedia teaching and the recipient of the Society for American Archaeology's first Public Education Award for his indefatigable efforts on behalf of archaeology and education.

Brian Fagan's other interests include bicycling, sailing, kayaking, and good food. He is married and lives in Santa Barbara with his wife and daughter, four cats (who supervise his writing), and last but not least, a minimum of four rabbits.

From the Back Cover:

The primary goal of this text is to better prepare electronics students for their first job and to supply them with the practical tools that will enhance their ability to perform. The text was developed using the author's industry and teaching experience, and it has been class-tested for over two years by the author.

Key Features and Benefits:

The information is discussed as an actual design project is completed.
This project is used as an ongoing example throughout the text.
Each chapter begins with an introduction highlighting the topics to be covered, including in-chapter examples, and containing end-of-chapter summaries and problems to check for understanding.
The text covers a six-step process for solving engineering problems that provides a logical sequence for students to follow when they develop a project in the electronics field.
A free 120-day evaluation version of Microsoft Project 2000 is packaged with each text. Readers have an opportunity to practice using Microsoft Project with chapter exercises, enabling them to become conversant with this powerful project management software tool.

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