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• Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering I

  Author(s): Don Johnson, Rice University

  Updated: May 9, 2019

  Description: The textbook focuses on the creation, manipulation, transmission, and reception of information by electronic means. Elementary signal theory; time- and frequency-domain analysis; Sampling Theorem. Digital information theory; digital transmission of analog signals; error-correcting codes.

• A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB

  Author(s): Serhat Beyenir, British Columbia Institute of Technology

  Updated: May 9, 2019

  Description: A Brief Introduction to Engineering Computation with MATLAB is specifically designed for students with no programming experience. However, students are expected to be proficient in First Year Mathematics and Sciences and access to good reference books are highly recommended. Students are assumed to have a working knowledge of the Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows operating systems. The strategic goal of the course and book is to provide learners with an appreciation for the role computation plays ...[more]

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• Basics of Fluid Mechanics

  Author(s): Genick Bar-Meir, Ph. D, Potto Project

  Updated: Jan 23, 2020

  Description: THIS BOOK WILL BE ARCHIVED ON June 1, 2020, as it does not include an editable file, which is a requirement of our open textbook collection. AFTER THIS DATE, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO FIND THE TEXTBOOK IN THE OER BY DISCPLINE GUIDE'S CHAPTER ON MECHANICAL ENGINEERING (https://opentextbc.ca/oerdiscipline/chapter/mechanical-engineering/). --------- This book, Basics of Fluid Mechanics, describes the fundamentals of fluid mechanics phenomena for engineers and others. This book is designed to replace all...[more]

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• Calculus-Based Physics I

  Author(s): Jeffrey W. Schnick, Ph.D., Saint Anselm College

  Updated: May 10, 2019

  Description: Calculus-Based Physics is an introductory physics textbook designed for use in the two-semester introductory physics course typically taken by science and engineering students. This is the first of two textbooks for this course.

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• Calculus-Based Physics II

  Author(s): Jeffrey W. Schnick, Ph.D., Saint Anselm College

  Updated: May 10, 2019

  Description: Calculus-Based Physics is an introductory physics textbook designed for use in the two-semester introductory physics course typically taken by science and engineering students. This is the second of two textbooks for this course.

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• Sim Labs for Thermodynamics and Thermal Power Plant Simulator

  Author(s): Serhat Beyenir, Sanja Boskovic; British Columbia Institute of Technology

  Updated: May 9, 2019

  Description: This Simulator laboratory (SIMLAB) book was created to provide ancillary resources for Thermodynamics and Thermal Power Plant Simulator courses. It is intended to act as a collection of exercises to help our students merge the theory covered in the classroom with the practice performed in the labs.

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• eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing

  Author(s): Rob Stokes, Saylor Academy

  Updated: Jun 12, 2019

  Description: eMarketing: The Essential Guide to Online Marketing is a textbook intended for third and fourth year marketing students and draws on both academic theory and practical experience. The book offers students information that is applicable to the eMarket industry by providing examples that are easily relatable. The book covers all of the important aspects of online marketing, including the areas associated with search engine marketing, affiliate marketing, web analytics and conversion optimisation,...[more]

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• Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation

  Author(s): Tom Theis, University of Illinois, Jonathan Tomkin, University of Illinois

  Updated: Jun 11, 2019

  Description: With “Sustainability: A Comprehensive Foundation”, first and second-year college students are introduced to this expanding new field, comprehensively exploring the essential concepts from every branch of knowledge – including engineering and the applied arts, natural and social sciences, and the humanities. As sustainability is a multi-disciplinary area of study, the text is the product of multiple authors drawn from the diverse faculty of the University of Illinois: each chapter is written by ...[more]

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• Medicines by Design

  Author(s): US Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Health, National Institute of General Medical Sciences

  Updated: May 9, 2019

  Description: Medicines By Design aims to explain how scientists unravel the many different ways medicines work in the body and how this information guides the hunt for drugs of the future. Pharmacology is a broad discipline encompassing every aspect of the study of drugs, including their discovery and development and the testing of their action in the body. Much of the most promising pharmacological research going on at universities across the country is sponsored by the National Institute of General Medica...[more]

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• Mechanics

  Author(s): Ben Crowell, Fullerton College

  Updated: May 10, 2019

  Description: This is a calculus-based book meant for the first semester of a first year survey course taken by engineering and physical science majors. It has a traditional order of topics whereby force is discussed before energy. It is divided into 17 chapters that cover a review of high school physics, scaling and estimation, vectors, velocity, acceleration, forces, circular motion, gravity, conservation of energy, work, conservation of momentum and angular momentum, vibrations, and resonance. A treatment...[more]

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