Exploring Engineering - An Introduction to Engineering and Design

Offers a comprehensive overview of the application of machine learning tools in data analysis across a wide range of subject areas Teaches readers how to apply machine learning techniques to biomedical signals, financial data, and healthcare data Explores important classification and regression algorithms as well as other machine learning techniques Explains how to use Python to handle data extraction, manipulation, and exploration techniques, as well as how to visualize data spread across multiple dimensions and extract useful features

List of contents

Part 1: Lead-On
1. What Engineers Do
2. Elements of Engineering Analysis
3. Force and Motion
4. Energy
5. Engineering Economics
Part 2: Minds-On
6. Aeronautical Engineering
7. Chemical Engineering
8. Civil Engineering
9. Computer Engineering
11. Industrial Engineering
12. Manufacturing Engineering
14. Mechanical Engineering
15. Nuclear Engineering
16. Bioengineering
17. Electrochemical Engineering
18. Environmental Engineering
19. Green Energy Engineering
Part 3: Hands-On
20. Introduction to Mechatronics and Physical Computing
21. Introduction to Engineering Design
22. Design teams
23. Design Step 1: Defining the Problem
24. Design Step 2: Generation of Alternative Concepts
25. Design Step 3: Evaluation of Alternatives and Selection of a Concept
26. Design Step 4: Detailed Design
27. Design Step 5: Design Defense
28. Design Step 6: Manufacturing and Testing
29. Design Step 7: Performance Evaluation
30. Design Step 8: Design Report
31. Examples of Design Competitions
32. Closing Remarks on the Important Role of Design Projects

About the author

Dr. Robert Balmer has worked as an engineer at the Bettis Atomic Power Laboratory and at various DuPont facilities. He has over 40 years of engineering teaching experience and has authored 70 technical publications and the Elsevier undergraduate engineering textbook Modern Engineering Thermodynamics.Dr. William Keat has been teaching design for 20 years, in courses ranging from freshman engineering to a graduate course in design methodology. Has been awarded two Pi Tau Sigma Outstanding Teacher Awards and two first place finishes at the Mini-Baja East Competition while serving as an advisor.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Balmer, Robert (Mechanical Engineering Professor Emeritus Balmer, Robert T. (Mechanical Engineering Professor Emeritus Balmer, Balmer Robert, William Keat, William (Professor of Mechanical Engineering Keat, William D. (Professor of Mechanical Engineering Keat, Philip Kosky, Philip (Professor of Mechanical Engineering (Retired) Kosky, George (Formerly Adjunct Professor of Mechanical Engineering Wise
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780128150733
• ISBN: 978-0-12-815073-3
• No. of pages: 656
• Dimensions: 188 mm x 232 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 998 g
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Industrial Engineering, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), Technical design, Engineering: general, Industrial chemistry and manufacturing technologies