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Spring 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 5 Healthcare & Biotechnology in the 21st Century Rosen, Robbie No textbook required
ENGS 6 Technology & Biosecurity Hoyt No textbook required
ENGS 7 Energy Technology & Public Policy Converse 1. Energy Systems and Sustainability (2003), Boyle, G., Everett, B. and Ramage, J. , Oxford Univ. Press in association with The Open University, ISBN 0199261792

2. Renewable Energy (2004), Boyle, G. (ed), Oxford Univ. Press in association with The Open University, ISBN 0199261784

3. Style, the Basics of Clarity and Grace (2006), Williams, J. M., Pearson/Longman, ISBN 0205605354

4. Renewable Energy Policy, Komar, Paul, Diebold Institute for Public Policy Studies, iUniverse, Inc., New York, ISBN 0595312187
ENGS 20 Introduction to Scientific Computing Shepherd A First Book of ANSI C, 3rd Edition, Bronson, Brooks/Cole, 2001. ISBN 534-37964-8. (Please Note: There is a 4th edition, but still wants 3rd edition)

Recommended: MATLAB: An Introduction with Applications, 3rd Edition, Gilat Wiley, 2005, ISBN 0470108770
ENGS 21 Introduction to Engineering Lotko No textbook required
ENGS 23 Distributed Systems and Fields Österberg 1. Div, Grad, Curl and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus, H. Schey, 4th Edition, Norton, 1996, ISBN 0393925161

2. Mastering MATLAB 7, D. Hanselman and B.R. Littlefield, Pearson, 2005, ISBN 0131430181
ENGS 24 Science of Materials Gibson The Science and Design of Engineering Materials, by Schaffer, Saxena, Antolovich, Sanders and Warner, McGraw Hill, 2nd Edition, ISBN 0072448091
ENGS 25 Introduction to Thermodynamics Richter Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics; Michael Moran and Howard Shapiro, John Wiley & Sons, 5th Edition (not a later version), ISBN 0471696765
ENGS 26 Control Theory Ray Modern Control Engineering; Ogata, Prentice-Hall, 4th Edition, 2000, ISBN 0130609072
ENGS 31 (CS 47) Digital Electronics Taylor Digital Design, Frank Vahid, Wiley 2007 (VHDL Supplement and Text)
ENGS 41 Sustainability & Natural Resource Management Lynch No textbook required
ENGS 51 Principles of System Dynamics Daubenspeck The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, Goldratt, Cox; North River Press, 3rd edition, 0884271781

Introduction to Systems Think (IST) with STELLA Research Software, High Performance Systems, Hanover, NH, ISBN 0970492111
ENGS 56 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Hoopes No textbook required
ENGS 73 Materials Processing & Selection Frost Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials, 5/E, Serope Kalpakjian and Steven Schmid, 2008, Prentice Hall
ENGS 103 Statistical Methods in Engineering Santos Statistics for Experimenters, Box Hunter and Hunter, Wiley Interscience, 2005, ISBN 0471-71813-0
ENGS 110 Signal Processing Hansen Discrete-Time Signal Processing, Oppenheimer and Schafer with Buck, Prentice-Hall, 1999, Latest Edition, ISBN 0-13-754920-2
ENGS 112 Modern Information Technologies Cybenko No textbook required
ENGS 125 Power Electronics & Electromechanical Energy Conversion Sullivan Required: Fundamentals of Power Electronics (Second Edition) by Robert W. Erickson, Dragan Maksimovic, 2nd edition (February 2001) Kluwer Academic Publishers; ISBN: 0792372700

Optional: Electric Motors and Drives: Fundamentals, Types and Applications by Austin Hughes, 3rd edition (December 1993) Butterworth-Heinemann; ISBN: 0750647183
ENGS 137 Methods of Materials Characterization I. Baker Microstructural Characterization of Materials, D. Brandon and W.D. Kaplan, J. Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471985023
ENGS 145 Modern Control Theory Phan Identification and Control of Mechanical Systems, Juang and Phan, Cambridge Univ Press, 2001, ISBN 0-521-78355-0 (hardcover) or 0-521-03190-7 (paperback)
ENGS 146 Computer-Aided Mechanical Engineering Design Diamond No textbook required
ENGS 156 Heat, Mass & Momentum Transfer Petrenko Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 6th Edition, F. P. Incropera and D. P. DeWitt, ISBN 0471457280 with the disk containing IHT and FEHT
ENGS 161 Metabolic Engineering Gerngross No textbook required
ENGG 166 Physiology for Bioengineers Daubenspeck Textbook of Medical Physiology, Guyton; W.B. Saunders, ISBN 0721602401. Latest Edition
ENGS 171 Industrial Ecology Cushman-Roisin No textbook required
ENGS 172 Climate Change & Engineering Lynch Climate Change 2007 - The Physical Science Basis: Working Group I: Contribution to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (Climate Change 2007), Publisher: Cambridge University Press; (September 10, 2007). ISBN 0521705967. This is a multi-volume set; we require only volume 1.
ENGS 175 Advanced Product Design J. Collier, Robbie No textbook required
ENGM 180 Corporate Finance Rendleman Corporate Finance, Ross, Westerfield, and Jaffe, 8th Edition, Irwin/McGraw-Hill, ISBN 0073337188
ENGM 183 Operations Management Hall No textbook required
ENGM 185 Topics in Manufacturing Design & Processes Lasky Design and Analysis of Experiments, Douglas C. Montgomery, J. Wiley & Sons, 6th Edition, ISBN 047148735X
ENGG 199-01 Mechatronics Ray, Lever No textbook required
ENGS 202 Nonlinear Systems Olfati-Saber Nonlinear Systems, Hassan K. Khalil, 3rd Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0130673897
ENGG 210 Spectral Analysis Hansen No textbook required