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Spring 2009 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 7 Contemporary and Historical Perspectives on Medical Imaging Paulsen No textbook required
ENGS 20 Introduction to Scientific Computing Shepherd A First Book of ANSI C, 3rd Edition, Bronson, Brooks/Cole, 2001. ISBN 534-37964-8

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 Div, Grad, Curl and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus, H. Schey, 4th Edition, Norton, 1996, ISBN 0393925161

Mastering MATLAB 7, D. Hanselman and B.R. Littlefield, Pearson, 2005, ISBN 0131430181
ENGS 24 Science of Materials Gibson Introduction to Materials Science for Engineers, James F. Shackelford, 7th Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0136012604
ENGS 25 Introduction to Thermodynamics Frost Fundamentals of Engineering Thermodynamics; Michael Moran and Howard Shapiro, John Wiley & Sons, 5th Edition, ISBN 0471696765
ENGS 26 Control Theory Ray Modern Control Engineering; Ogata, Prentice-Hall, 4th Edition, 2000, ISBN 0130609072
ENGS 31 (COSC 47) Digital Electronics Taylor Digital Design, Frank Vahid, Wiley 2007 (VHDL Supplement and Text), ISBN 0470100133
ENGS 41 Sustainability & Natural Resource Management Lynch Sustainable Natural Resource Management For Scientists and Engineers, Daniel Lynch, Cambridge Univ Press, 2009, ISBN 0521899729
ENGS 42 (EARS 76) Contaminant Hydrogeology Renshaw Earth Sciences Department to order
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, ISEE Systems (students should order online at www.iseesystems.com)
ENGS 56 Introduction to Biomedical Engineering Hoopes No textbook required
ENGS 71 Structural Analysis May Structural Analysis, Russell C. Hibeler, 6th Edition, Prentice Hall, ISBN 0-13-147089-2
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 Lasky Applied Statistics & Probability for Engineers, Montgomery & Runger, 4th Edition, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-74589-8
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 114 Networked Multi-Agent Systems Olfati-Saber No textbook required
ENGS 123 Optics Testorf CANCELLED
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 126 Analog VLSI Systems Design Ferguson, Odame Analog Integrated Circuit Design, Johns and Martin, Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0471144487
ENGS 137 Methods of Materials Characterization I. Baker CANCELLED
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 Engineering Design with Solidworks, 2008, Planchard, ISBN 978-1-58503-419-2

Engineering Analysis with COSMOSWorks, Professional 2008, Kurowski, ISBN 978-1-58503-469-7
ENGS 151 Environmental Fluid Mechanics Cushman-Roisin No textbook required
ENGS 153 Computational Plasma Dynamics Denton Physics Department will place order
ENGS 156 Heat, Mass & Momentum Transfer Petrenko Fundamentals of Heat and Mass Transfer, 6th Edition, F. P. Incropera and D. P. DeWitt, ISBN 0470055545 with the disk containing IHT and FEHT
ENGS 162 Methods in Biotechnology Griswold No textbook required
ENGS 165 Biomaterials Van Citters Biomaterials Science, An Introduction to Materials in Medicine, Ratner, Hoffman, Schoen, and Lemons, 2nd Edition, Elsevier Academic Press, 2004, ISBN 0-12-582463-7
ENGS 171 Industrial Ecology Cushman-Roisin Greening the Industrial Facility: Perspectives, Approaches, and Tools by Thomas E. Graedel and Jennifer A. Howard-Grenville, Springer, 2005, 617 pages, ISBN-10: 0387243062, 1st edition, hardcover
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 Lewellen 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, 7th Edition, ISBN 0470128666
ENGG 199-01 Advanced Digital Design Hansen RTL Hardware Design Using VHDL: Coding for Efficiency, Portability, and Scalability (Hardcover), Pong P. Chu, Wiley-IEEE Press (2006), ISBN-10: 0-471-72092-5
ENGG 199-02 Intermediate Fluid Mechanics Vlahovska Advanced Transport Phenomena: Fluid Mechanics and Convective Transport Processes (Cambridge Series in Chemical Engineering) by L. Gary Leal, 2007, (students need to order through Amazon)
ENGG 199-03 Wireless Technology Meaney Microwave and RF Design of Wireless Systems, David M. Pozar, Wiley & Sons, 2001, ISBN 0471322822
ENGS 205 Computational Methods for Partial Differential Equations II Paulsen No textbook required
ENGG 261 Biomass Energy Systems Lynd, Laser No textbook required
ENGG 266 Physiological Control System Modeling Daubenspeck Physiological Control Systems: Analysis, Simulation, and Estimation, M.C. Khoo, IEEE Press, 0-7803-3408-6