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Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering, 4/e

Giorgio Rizzoni, The Ohio State University

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Focus on Methodology Boxes throughout the text enumerate and highlight the steps involved in using various methods of analysis. This will help remind students to use the procedures for analysis properly, and will help to highlight the methods (through the use of a shaded box) for easy look up.
Computer tools are introduced and their use is encouraged in the text's examples and problems. Students are given the opportunity to solve problems with a variety of computer tools such as MathCad, MatLab, Electronics Workbench, etc. Learning these computer tools now will help students to cut out the plug and chug calculations and more easily solve analysis and design problems.
Also, a new boxed feature called Focus on Computer Tools is found in each chapter.
Rizzoni's experience as an electrical engineer teaching in a mechanical engineering department makes him the ideal author for an EE book for non majors. Through the use of a wide variety of applications and interesting problems, Rizzoni stimulates the non-majors audience to learn. This is consistently rated as the best feature of the Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering.
This OLC for the book can be found at www.mhhe.com/rizzoni. It contains additional computer-related tools such as Electronics Workbench problems, password-protected solutions for instructors, an additional chapter on Communications for schools that cover this material, important web links, etc.
Also, throughout the book a section called "Find it on the Web"quot; has been added. These sections provide web links to global companies that manufacture the devices mentioned in the text. Students will be able to quickly look up manufacturer's data sheets and other useful information for use in design problems. This material will be revised and updated.
Focus on Measurements
The need for measurements is a common thread to all engineering and scientific disciplines. To emphasize the great relevance of electrical engineering to the science and practice of measurements, a special set of examples has been created to focus on measurement problems. These examples often relate to disciplines outside electrical engineering (e.g., biomedical, mechanical, thermal, and fluid system measurements).
Virtual Lab CD-ROM
One of the very important changes to engineering education is the ever more common use of computers for analysis, design, data acquisition, and control. This book is designed to permit experimentation with various computer-aided design and analysis tools.
The Virtual Lab CD contains:
Examples from the text solved using MathCAD or Matlab.
Examples and figures supplemented by Electronics Workbench simulation.
Free demo of Electronics Workbench and the ability to order the Electronics Workbench program.
Data sheets for real devices mentioned in the text.
Instrumentation Examples, provided courtesy of Hewlett-Packard Company.
"Find It on the Web" links from the text.

Rizzoni: Principles and Applications of Electrical Engineering, 4/e

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