Engineering - Valparaiso

This book is a comprehensive volume of applied circuit design solutions. This book includes an extensive power management section, covering switching regulator design, linear regulator design, microprocessor power design, battery management, powering LED lighting, automotive and industrial power design. Other sections span a range of analog design topics, including data conversion, data acquisition, communications interface design, operational amplifier design techniques, filter design, and wireless, RF, communications and network design.

This book provides a concise introduction to the main elements of a low frequency analog acquisition chain. The book aims to be sufficiently general to provide an introduction, yet specific enough to guide the reader through some classical problems that may be encountered in the subject. Topics include sensors, conditioning circuits, differential and instrumentation amplifiers, active filters (mainly for anti-aliasing purposes) and analog to digital converters.

This book is the result of lessons, tutorials and other laboratories dealing with applied mechanical design in the universities and colleges.

This book provides new and seasoned users with step-by-step procedures on creating and modifying 3D models, working with cameras and lights, assigning materials to objects, rendering, and printing. The book uses both metric and imperial units to illustrate the myriad tools for this popular application.

This book conveys the basic concepts of electrical installations in buildings in practical applications. The selection of subjects covered are: power supply design of electrical installations, power supply systems and mains lines, distribution boards, forms of installation, wiring layouts, slots and recesses Information technology, and lightning protection systems.

This book offers readers a true and engaging history of the world of electronics, beginning with the discoveries of static electricity and magnetism and ending with the creation of the smartphone and the iPad. This book shows the interconnection of each advance to the next on the long journey to our modern-day technologies.

The primary purpose of this book is to explain the fundamentals of data converters for students and engineers involved in this fascinating field as a newcomer. The selected topics are as follows: sampling and quantization, sample-and-hold (S/H) circuits and comparators Architectures and circuit implementations of D/A converters Architectures and circuit implementations of Nyquist-rate, and oversampling A/D converters. The book will also help students who have learned the basics of analog circuit design to understand the state-of-the-art data converters.

This book has been written for students on electrical engineering courses who don't necessarily possess prior knowledge of electrical circuits. The book covers the analysis of simple electrical circuits consisting of a few essential components using fundamental and well-known methods and techniques.

This book focuses on special circuits dedicated to the RF level of wireless communications. From oscillators to modulation and demodulation, and from mixers to RF and power amplifier circuits, all are presented in a sequential manner. A wealth of analytical relations is provided in the text alongside various worked out examples.

This book is a comprehensive guide for experts and novices for producing engineering drawings and annotated 3D models that meet the recent BSI and ISO standards of technical product documentation and specifications. The book has been prepared for international use, and includes a comprehensive discussion of the fundamental differences between the ISO and ASME standards, as well as recent updates regarding legal components, such as copyright, patents, and other legal considerations.

This title covers the design, specification, selection, use and integration of machine elements fundamental to a wide range of engineering applications.

This book examines new strategies emerging in response to the mega-issues of global climate change, decline in world oil supply, scarcity of key industrial minerals, and local environmental constraints.