Engineering students

The purpose of this book is to share the experience of the author with those in the field. It is an attempt to make these subjects simple and interesting. The book should provide an easy approach to answer the problems an engineer or engineering student may face when handling these machines. 

This book has been written as a second-level course for engineering students. It provides a concise introduction to the microstructures and processing of materials (metals, ceramics, polymers and composites) and shows how these are related to the properties required in engineering design. It is designed to follow on from our first-level text on the properties and applications of engineering materials," but it is completely self-contained and can be used by itself. 

Each chapter is designed to provide the content of a 50-minute lecture. Each block of four or so chapters is backed up by a set of Case Studies, which illustrate and consolidate the material they contain. There are special sections on design, and on such materials as wood, cement and concrete. And there are problems for the student at the end of each chapter for which worked solutions can be obtained separately, from the publisher. In order to ease the teaching of phase diagrams (often a difficult topic for engineering students) we have included a programmed-learning text which has proved helpful for our own students. 

The text of the book is intended to be a eomprehensive treatment of eontrol engineering for any undergraduate eourse where this appears as a topie. The book is also intended to be a referenee souree for praetising engineers, students undertaking Masters degrees, and an introduetory text for Ph.D. researeh students. 

However, the first text specifically for students of materials science was Lawrence van Vleck s Elements of Materials Science An Introductory Text for Engineering Students (1959), which was very widely used. It appeared only a year... 

Process safety is fundamental to the basic practice of chemical engineering thus, the concepts of inherently safer processes should be instilled in chemical engineering students at an early stage. Practicing engineers should be encouraged to adopt the concepts. 

Most engineering students are well aware that the first derivative of a continuous function is zero at a maximum or minimum of the function. Fewer recall that the sign of the second derivative signifies whether the stationary value determined by a zero first derivative is a maximum or a minimum. Even fewer are aware of what to do if the second derivative happens to be zero. Thus, this appendix is presented to put finding relative maxima and minima of a function on a firm foundation. 

William Rankme has been credited with many things derived from his brilliant career, with perhaps the most unique being the transition of his empirical work into scientific theories published for the benefit of engineering students. He is considered the author of the modern philosophy of the steam engine and also the greatest among all founders of and contributors to the science of thermodynamics. 

Certain emerging specialties of chemical engineering will require a deeper exposure of engineering students to other disciplines. For example ... 

Chemical engineering students interested in electronic materials need to understand the elements of electrical engineering and solid-state physics in order to work productively with colleagues in these disciplines. 

FRESHMAN CHEMISTRY is arguably an important course, one that needs to be viewed as a contribution beyond a service level. It affords the opportunity to make the case, to many students of varied disciplines, of why chemistry is the central science and is responsible for virtually all of the high-tech developments they encounter or read about. The course should be a vehicle to attract more students to chemistry. More importantly, it should instill greater respect for and appreciation of chemistry by students who will not necessarily specialize in it. In our view, this function is particularly important for engineering students, as they will frequently use the basic ideas in freshman chemistry in their professional lives, yet they often wonder where the connection is while they are exposed to these ideas in the classroom. 

To provide engineering students with up-to-date knowledge about boiling heat transfer and two-phase flow from which a consistent and thorough understanding may be formed. 

One of the special features is the extensive discussion and explanation of the interdependence between polymer structure, properties, and processing. The book contains numerous application-oriented examples and is presented at an intermediate level for both practicing plastics engineers and advanced engineering students. 

In addition to engineering students, planners, engineers and regulatory officials who are dealing with design, operation and management of sewer systems may find such applications of in-sewer processes beneficial. 

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