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Fall 2008 Textbooks

Textbooks can be purchased at Wheelock Books, which is located across the street from Collis at 2 West Wheelock St. in the building on stilts. Textbooks can also be purchased at Dartmouth Bookstore at 33 South Main Street.

Course Title Instructor Textbooks
ENGS 4

Technology of Cyberspace

 Taylor HTML 4 for the World Wide Web, Fourth Edition: Visual QuickStart Guide by Elizabeth Castro, Peachpit Press; Berkeley, CA, 2000, ISBN 0321430840
ENGS 7 Technology: Boon or Bain? Garmire Beyond Engineering: How Society Shapes Technology, Robert Pool, Oxford University Press, Paperback, ISBN 0195129113
ENGS 11 Technologies in Homeland Security McGrath No textbook required
ENGS 12 Design Thinking Robbie No textbook required
ENGS 13 Virtual Medicine & Cybercare Robbie, Rosen

Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder (paperback), ISBN 0812973011

Redefining Healthcare: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, Michael Porter, Elizabeth Teisberg, Harvard Business School Press, 2006, ISBN 1591397782
ENGS 20 Introduction to Scientific Computing Shepherd A First Book of ANSI C, 3rd Edition, Bronson, Brooks/Cole, 2001, ISBN 534-37964-8 (note: 3rd edition, not 4th edition)

Recommended: MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications, 2nd Edition, Gilat, Wiley, 2005, ISBN 0470108770
ENGS 21 Introduction to Engineering J. Collier No textbook required
ENGS 23 Distributed Systems & Fields Hansen Recommended: Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus, H.M. Schey, W.W. Norton & Co., 4th Edition, ISBN 0393925161

Mastering MATLAB 7, Duane Hanselman, Bruce Littlefield, Pearson Education; 1st Edition, ISBN 0131430181
ENGS 26 Control Theory Olfati-Saber Modern Control Engineering; Ogata, Prentice-Hall, 4th Edition, 2002, ISBN 0130609072
ENGS 33 Solid Mechanics Phan Mechanics of Materials; Roy Craig, Jr., John Wiley & Sons, 2nd Edition, 0471331767
ENGS 35 Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering Gerngross Intro to Biotechnology, Thieman and Palladino, Pearson Education, ISBN 0-8503-4825-5
ENGS 36 Chemical Engineering Laser Unit Operations of Chemical Engineering, McCabe, Smith & Harriott, 7th Edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0072848235

Chem, Biochem, & Engg Thermodynamics, Sandler, Wiley & Sons, 4th Edition, ISBN 0471661740

Elements of Chem Reaction Engineering, Fogler, Macmillan, 4th Edition, ISBN 0130473944
ENGS 37 Introduction to Environmental Engineering Cushman-Roisin Environmental Engineering Science, W.W. Nazaroff & L. Alvarez-Cohen, John Wiley & Sons, 2001, 0471144940
ENGS 61 Intermediate Electrical Circuits Trembly Linear Circuit Analysis, DeCarlo and Lin, Oxford University Press, 2nd Edition, 2001, ISBN 0195136667
ENGS 63 Introduction to VLSI Systems Wissel Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits, Hodges, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0072283653
ENGS 76 Machine Engineering Ray Shigley's Mechanical Engineering Design, R.G. Budynas & J.K. Nisbett, McGraw-Hill, 8th edition, ISBN 0073312606
ENGS 91 Numerical Methods in Computation Shepherd Numerical Analysis; Burden; PWS, 0534392008, 8th Edition
ENGS 92 Fourier Transforms & Complex Variables Österberg No textbook required
ENGS 100 (PHYS 100) Methods in Applied Mathematics I Lotko Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering Third Edition Set. Includes 2 paperback books (Textbook + Student Solutions Manual), K.F. Riley, M.P. Hobson and S.J. Bence, ISBN-13: 9780521683395, ISBN-10: 0521683394, Cambridge University Press, August 2006
ENGS 116 (COSC 107) Computer Engineering: Computer Architecture Berk Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Hennessy & Patterson, 4th edition, ISBN 0123704901

Readings in Computer Architecture, Hill, Sohi, and Jouppi, 1999, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers ISBN 1-55860-539-8
ENGG 129 Instrumentation and Measurement Hartov No textbook required
ENGS 130 Mechanical Behavior of Materials Schulson Optional: Mechanical Metallurgy, Dieter, McGraw Hill, 3rd edition, ISBN 0070168938
ENGS 131 Science of Solid State Materials Petrenko Required: Principles of Electronic Materials and Devices, S.O. Kasap, 3rd Edition, McGraw-Hill, 2006, ISBN 0073104647

Optional: Electronic Properties of Materials, Robert E Hummel, 3rd Edition, Springer 2001, ISBN 038795144X
ENGS 160 Biotechnology & Biochemical Engineering (graduate section of ENGS 35) Gerngross Intro to Biotechnology, Thieman and Palladino, Pearson Education, ISBN 0-8503-4825-5
ENGS 167

Medical Imaging

 Pogue Physics of Radiology, Anthony B. Wolbarst, 2nd Edition, Medical Physics Publishing, 2005, ISBN 9781930524224
ENGG 173

Energy Utilization

 Sullivan To be determined
ENGG 177

Decision Making under Risk and Uncertainty

 Borsuk Required: Making Hard Decisions: An Introduction to Decision Analysis (Hardcover), Robert T. Clemen, ISBN 0534260349

Optional: Decisions under Uncertainty, Ian Jordaan, Cambridge University Press, 1st Edition, 2005, ISBN 0521782775
ENGM 178

Technology Assessment

 Graves Technology in Context, Ernest Braun, Routledge Publishers, 1998, ISBN 0-415-18343-X
ENGM 181 Marketing Luan Marketing Management, Kotler & Keller, 2006, 13th Edition, ISBN 978013600998

Markstrat Online Student Handbook, StratX International, ISBN 0974306304
ENGM 182 Organizational Behavior Joyce No textbook required
ENGM 184 Introduction to Optimization Methods K. Baker
 Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets, K. Baker, Duxbury Press, ISBN 0534494749
ENGM 188 Law, Technology & Entrepreneurship Goodenough Intellectual Property, Patents, Trademarks, Copyrights in a Nutshell, Arthur Miller and Michael Davis, 4th Edition, ISBN-13: 9780314158758

Corporate Finance in a Nutshell, Jeffrey J. Haas, ISBN-13: 9780314147370

Shade's Business Associations in a Nutshell, Joseph Shade and David Epstein, 2nd Edition ISBN-13: 9780314162809

International Business Transactions in a Nutshell, Ralph H. Folsom, Michael Wallace Gordon and John Spangle, Jr., 7th Edition, ISBN-13: 9780314151018
ENGM 189-1 Trends in Biotechnology Gerngross No textbook required
ENGM 189-2 Medical Device Development Paulsen No textbook required
ENGS 190 Engineering Design Methodology & Project Initiation Van Citters No textbook required
ENGS 195 Seminar on Science, Technology & Society Pogue No textbook required
ENGG 199-01 Energy Conversion Lynd No textbook required
ENGG 390 Master of Engineering Management Project Graves, K. Baker No textbook required