Modeling Engineering Systems: PC-Based Techniques and Design Tools (Engineering Mentor) by Jack W. Lewis

by Jack W. Lewis

Modeling Engineering Systems goes right to the heart of engineering, teaching you how and use the three basic types of engineering building blocksrecognize the analogies that can be drawn between the fundamental elements of electrical, mechanical, fluid, and thermal systemsdevelop math models for first- and higher-order systems using four fundamental methodsanalyze the models you developperform frequency analysis and plot frequency responsesEducated at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy and MIT, Jack W. Lewis is a registered professional engineer, his specialty is the design of automatic control and instrumental systems, especially as related to the marine industry. He is the author of numerous technical papers and articles, including national award-winning papers for the American Society of Naval Engineers (ASNE) and the Society of Naval Architects and Marine Engineers (SNAME).

Hardcover

First published October 1, 1993

About the author

Jack Lewis has had successive careers as a U.S. Coast Guard officer, marine engineer, corporate CEO, software developer, horse breeder/trainer, textbook author and, late in life, a registered nurse, volunteer paramedic, and washtub bass player in an old-time string band. He lives with his wife in the middle of Jefferson National Forest in rural western Virginia, in a county that didn’t quite make the cut into West Virginia. A history buff, he has had a decades-long fascination with the American Civil War. Storm Coming, A Novel of the Civil War in western Virginia, is his first novel.