Contributions by Surhid Gautam and Lit-Mian Chan. This book presents a state-of-the art review of vehicle emission standards and regulations and provides a synthesis of worldwide experience with vehicle emission control technologies and their applications in both industrial and developing countries. Topics covered include: * The two principal...
When it comes to addressing most of the challenges we face as a society, it is often
said that change begins at home. This is an exciting prospect—that we can make a difference
around the world by changing the way we live our daily lives—and nowhere is
it truer than in our efforts to improve the health of our planet,...
Those of you who have to deal with more than a handful of iPhones, iPads, or iPod
Touches already know why you manage iOS devices. For everyone else, “manage”
is not a short way to say “impose draconian control.” Managing devices on your
network, including iOS devices,...
The Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) had compelling
reasons to partner with Rockport Publishers on this book: It
meets a growing, real, and broad hunger for information and in-
spiration on industrial design.
Recently, industrial design has emerged as a profession that...
WELCOME TO THE FIFTH EDITION OF C++ Programming: Program Design Including Data
Structures. Designed for a two semester (CS1 and CS2) C++ course, this text will provide
a breath of fresh air to you and your students. The CS1 and CS2 courses serve as the cornerstone
of the Computer Science curriculum. My primary goal is to motivate...
Since Princess Diana's car crash in August 1997, media interest in the crash as an event needing explanation has proliferated. A glut of documentaries on television have investigated the social and scientific history of our responses to the car crash, as well as showing the personal impact of the crash on individual lives. In trying to...
Mechatronics education has been a constant source of interest to nearly all engineering
conferences, and the first chapter in this book is dedicated to this most
important subject.
The first paper discusses a very original idea from one of the more innovative
pioneers of mechatronics education. This looks at the...
During the financial crisis of 2008, things got scary. Large Wall Street firms were going under, stock prices were plummeting, and layoffs and unemployment rates were soaring. And, all this was happening in the midst of the 2008 presidential election. Talk of another Great Depression was in the air. In fact, polls showed a majority of...
A-Z guide to electrical/electronic and mechanical engineering design data. The ultimate sourcebook of electro-mechanical engineering design data is now better than ever, with thoroughly updated material, new discussions of engineering economics and elastomer springs. and a bounty of new drawings. Electro-Mechanical Design Handbook, Third...
Power electronics, which is a rapidly growing area in terms of research and applications, uses modern electronics technology to convert electric power from one form to another, such as ac-dc, dc-dc, dc-ac, and ac-ac with a variable output magnitude and frequency. Power electronics has many applications in our every day life such as...
"A must read for media and marketers.”
—Alan Cohen, CEO, OMD USA
"What do fish tacos, data storage, and disaster relief all have in common? Each has harnessed the power of marketing that amplifies via the real-time social web....
The aim of this book is to provide the reader with a modern presentation of ionic solutions at interfaces, for physical chemists, chemists and theoretically oriented experimentalists in this field. The discussion is mainly on the structural and thermodynamic properties, in relation to presently available statistical mechanical models. Some...
