Engineering Principles in Everyday Life for Non-Engineers (Synthesis Lectures on Engineering) - Softcover

Niku, Saeed Benjamin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1627058583 ISBN 13: 9781627058582

Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

This book is about the role of some engineering principles in our everyday lives. Engineers study these principles and use them in the design and analysis of the products and systems with which they work. The same principles play basic and influential roles in our everyday lives as well. Whether the concept of entropy, the moments of inertia, the natural frequency, the Coriolis acceleration, or the electromotive force, the roles and effects of these phenomena are the same in a system designed by an engineer or created by nature. This shows that learning about these engineering concepts helps us to understand why certain things happen or behave the way they do, and that these concepts are not strange phenomena invented by individuals only for their own use, rather, they are part of our everyday physical and natural world, but are used to our benefit by the engineers and scientists. Learning about these principles might also help attract more and more qualified and interested high school and college students to the engineering fields. Each chapter of this book explains one of these principles through examples, discussions, and at times, simple equations.

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About the Author

Saeed Benjamin Niku, California Polytechnic State University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Morgan & Claypool Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627058583
• ISBN 13: 9781627058582
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 212