System Dynamics for Engineering Students: Concepts and Applications - Softcover

Lobontiu, Nicolae

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0323995829 ISBN 13: 9780323995825

Publisher: Academic Press, 2025

Synopsis

System Dynamics for Engineering Students: Concepts and Applications, Third Edition provides a classical approach to system dynamics that is designed for a one-semester course for upper-level undergraduate students. It focuses on mechanical, aerospace, and electrical engineering, featuring examples from compliant mechanisms and MEMS/NEMS. The text aims to offer a robust understanding of system dynamics, helping students grasp both fundamental and complex concepts. The updated edition has been reorganized and updated to enhance the flow for instructors and students. It includes a greater variety of topics, applications, and real-world examples, along with more basic examples and end-of-chapter problems.

Additionally, the edition offers comprehensive analysis and design examples, ensuring a well-rounded educational experience.

• Provides more balance between analytical and computational approaches
• Proposes an updated chapter sequence to improve the flow and connectivity of system dynamics
• Includes a three-chapter Controls section to meet the needs of programs that cover both system dynamics and controls in the course
• Integrates Lagrange’s equations as another modeling technique of dynamic systems
• Utilizes both analytical methods and MATLAB/Simulink to solve examples

About this title

About the Author

Nicolae Lobontiu, Ph.D., is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Professor Lobontiu’s teaching background includes courses in system dynamics, controls, instrumentation and measurement, mechanics of materials, dynamics, vibrations, finite element analysis, boundary element analysis, and thermal system design.

From the Back Cover

System Dynamics for Engineering Students: Concepts and Applications features a classical approach to system dynamics. It is primarily designed to be utilized as a one-semester text for upper-level undergraduate system dynamics courses with an emphasis on mechanical, aerospace, or electrical engineering. The textbook comprises examples from compliant (flexible) mechanisms and micro/nano electromechanical systems (MEMS/NEMS).

The third edition has been reorganized and updated to provide better flow for instructors and students, greater variety of topics, applications and real-world examples, addition of more basic/fundamental examples and end-of-chapter problems, as well as more comprehensive analysis/design examples and problems.

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0323995829
• ISBN 13: 9780323995825
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 696