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Print: $25.96 Since 2002, the Introduction to Matrix Algebra book has been downloaded by more than 30,000 users from 50 different countries. This book is an extended primer for undergraduate Matrix Algebra. The book is either to be used as a refresher material for students who have already taken a course in Matrix Algebra or used as a just-in-time tool if the burden of teaching Matrix Algebra has been placed on several courses. In my own department, the Linear Algebra course was taken out of the curriculum a decade ago. It is now taught just in time in courses like Statics, Programming Concepts, Vibrations, and Controls.
There are ten chapters in the book 1) INTRODUCTION, 2) VECTORS, 3) BINARY MATRIX OPERATIONS, 4) UNARY MATRIX OPERATIONS, 5) SYSTEM OF EQUATIONS, 6) GAUSSIAN ELIMINATION, 7) LU DECOMPOSITION, 8) GAUSS-SEIDAL METHOD, 9) ADEQUACY OF SOLUTIONS, 10) EIGENVALUES AND EIGENVECTORS.
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Print: $19.98 In Fall 2003, five teachers in the College of Engineering at the University of South Florida contributed questions for a Fundamentals of Engineering Question of the Day website (http://fe.eng.usf.edu). On this website, everyday a question posed with multiple choices is selected randomly from a pool of questions. The user gets the feedback about the choice he/she makes, and can seek a hint to answer the question.
Over the years, we have received queries from our website visitors if we could provide them with the complete solutions to all the questions in the test bank. We are now presenting this information to you at a nominal charge as a soft-cover book.
The book is divided into twelve sections that have been established for the Fundamental of Engineering (General Engineering) examination by the National Council of Examiners for Engineering and Surveying (NCEES).
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Print: $49.95 This book entitled Numerical Methods with Applications is written primarily for engineering undergraduates taking a course in Numerical Methods. The textbook offers a unique treatise to numerical methods which is based on a holistic approach and short chapters. This book is a product of many years of work on educational projects funded since 2002 by the NSF.
Features:
1) Examples of real-life applications are available from seven different engineering majors.
2) Each chapter is followed by multiple-choice questions.
3) Supplemental material such as primers on differential and integral calculus, and ordinary differential equations are available on the web.
4) The book has a state-of-art dedicated open courseware website with YouTube lectures, extra examples, PowerPoint presentations, worksheets in MATLAB, MATHEMATICA, Maple and MathCAD, anecdotes, eBooks, and blogs. To access the website, go to http://numericalmethods.eng.usf.edu, to access the blog go to http://autarkaw.wordpress.com.
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K. KAW is a Fellow of ASME, Full Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Jerome Krivanek Distinguished Teacher at the University
of South Florida, Tampa. Professor Kaw obtained his B.E. (Hons.) degree
in mechanical engineering from Birla
Institute of Technology and Science, India in 1981. He received his
Ph.D. degree in 1987 and M.S. degree in 1984, both in Engineering Mechanics
from Clemson University,
SC. He joined the faculty of University of South Florida, Tampa in
1987. He has also been a Maintenance Engineer (1982) for Ford-Escorts Tractors,
India, and a Summer Faculty Fellow (1992) and Visiting Scientist (1991)
at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
His research interests include Mechanics of Composite Materials, Fracture,
Bridge Assemblies, Development of Educational Software, and Software Interfaces
for Engineering Models. His research has been funded by National Science
Foundation, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, Florida Department
of Transportation, Research and Development Laboratories, Wright Patterson
Air Force Base, and Montgomery Tank Lines.
He is a Fellow of the American Society
of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), and a member of American
Society of Engineering Education (ASEE). He has written more than 60 technical papers, a text book
on mechanics of
composite materials, and developed several
software instructional programs for courses such as Mechanics of Composites
and Numerical Methods.
He has won several teaching, research and service awards. Notable awards include the 2004 CFAT/CASE Florida Professor of the Year Award, 2004 ASME Curriculum Innovation Award, the 2003 Archie Higdon Mechanics Educator Award and the 1991 Ralph Teetor Award.
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