Foundations of Engineering, 3rd Edition

"Traditional engineering courses-such as courses on heat transfer, circuits, and fluids-are fairly well defined. In contrast, there is no general agreement on the content of freshman engineering courses. Current freshman engineering texts choose from a range of topics including professionalism, creativity, ethics, design, technical writing, graphing, systems of units, engineering science, and problem solving. All of these topics are important aspects of the freshman engineering experience, but we found no one text that adequately encompassed them all. Therefore, we decided to write our own text to fill the void"-- Provided by publisher The third edition of Foundations of Engineering gives freshman engineering students a solid foundation for all their future coursework. It provides an overview of the engineering profession and of the skills they will need to develop, as well as an introduction to fundamental engineering topics such as thermodynamics, rate processes, and Newton's laws. An important aspect of the book's approach is the method of Engineering Accounting, which casts the basic conservation laws (e.g., of energy or mass) as simple "accounting" procedures. This new edition is available in Connect with SmartBook.