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  • Applied State Estimation and Association
    Chaw-Bing Chang
    Keh-Ping Dunn

    A rigorous introduction to the theory and applications of state estimation and association, an important area in aerospace, electronics, and defense industries.

  • Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
    Gerald Jay Sussman

    The new edition of a classic text that concentrates on developing general methods for studying the behavior of classical systems, with extensive use of computation.

  • The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering
    Sanjoy Mahajan

    Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.

  • Girls Coming to Tech!
    Amy Sue Bix

    How women coped with both formal barriers and informal opposition to their entry into the traditionally masculine field of engineering in American higher education.

  • Flight Vehicle Aerodynamics
    Mark Drela

    An overview of the physics, concepts, theories, and models underlying the discipline of aerodynamics.

  • From X-rays to DNA
    W. David Lee

    An argument that technology accelerates biological discovery, with case studies ranging from chromosome discovery with early microscopes to how DNA replicates using radioisotope labels.

  • Engineering Systems
    Olivier L. de Weck
    Daniel Roos

    An overview of engineering systems that describes the new challenges posed for twenty-first-century engineers by today’s highly complex sociotechnical systems.

  • Engineering a Safer World
    Nancy G. Leveson

    A new approach to safety, based on systems thinking, that is more effective, less costly, and easier to use than current techniques.

  • Flexibility in Engineering Design
    Richard de Neufville
    Stefan Scholtes

    A guide to using the power of design flexibility to improve the performance of complex technological projects, for designers, managers, users, and analysts.

  • Design Structure Matrix Methods and Applications
    Steven D. Eppinger
    Tyson R. Browning

    An introduction to a powerful and flexible network modeling tool for developing and understanding complex systems, with many examples from a range of industries.

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An Introduction to Agent-Based Modeling

Modeling Natural, Social, and Engineered Complex Systems with NetLogo
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The advent of widespread fast computing has enabled us to work on more complex problems and to build and analyze more complex models. This book provides an introduction to one of the primary methodologies for research in this new field of knowledge. Agent-based modeling (ABM) offers a new way of doing science: by conducting computer-based experiments. ABM is applicable to complex systems embedded in natural, social, and engineered contexts, across domains that range from engineering to ecology.

Ultrawideband Phased Array Antenna Technology for Sensing and Communications Systems

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Ultrawideband phased array antennas are an enabling technology for many ground-based and airborne communications and radar systems. This book surveys electromagnetic theory and phased array antenna theory and provides examples of ultrawideband phased array antenna technology. It describes some of the research on ultrawideband phased arrays undertaken by the authors and their colleagues at MIT Lincoln Laboratory over the last ten years.

Architecting the Future Enterprise

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Every enterprise evolves continuously, driven by changing needs or new opportunities. Most often this happens gradually, with small adjustments to strategy, organization, processes, or infrastructure. But sometimes enterprises need to go beyond minor fixes and transform themselves, in response to a disruptive event or dramatically changing circumstances—a merger, for example, or a new competitor. In this book, enterprise architecting experts Deborah Nightingale and Donna Rhodes offer a framework for enterprise transformation.

Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics, Second Edition

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We now know that there is much more to classical mechanics than previously suspected. Derivations of the equations of motion, the focus of traditional presentations of mechanics, are just the beginning. This innovative textbook, now in its second edition, concentrates on developing general methods for studying the behavior of classical systems, whether or not they have a symbolic solution. It focuses on the phenomenon of motion and makes extensive use of computer simulation in its explorations of the topic.

Technology Choices

Why Occupations Differ in Their Embrace of New Technology
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Why do people who perform largely the same type of work make different technology choices in the workplace? An automotive design engineer working in India, for example, finds advanced information and communication technologies essential, allowing him to work with far-flung colleagues; a structural engineer in California relies more on paper-based technologies for her everyday work; and a software engineer in Silicon Valley operates on multiple digital levels simultaneously all day, continuing after hours on a company-supplied home computer and network connection.

Great Principles of Computing

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Computing is usually viewed as a technology field that advances at the breakneck speed of Moore’s Law. If we turn away even for a moment, we might miss a game-changing technological breakthrough or an earthshaking theoretical development. This book takes a different perspective, presenting computing as a science governed by fundamental principles that span all technologies. Computer science is a science of information processes. We need a new language to describe the science, and in this book Peter Denning and Craig Martell offer the great principles framework as just such a language.

The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering

Mastering Complexity
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In this book, Sanjoy Mahajan shows us that the way to master complexity is through insight rather than precision. Precision can overwhelm us with information, whereas insight connects seemingly disparate pieces of information into a simple picture. Unlike computers, humans depend on insight. Based on the author’s fifteen years of teaching at MIT, Cambridge University, and Olin College, The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering shows us how to build insight and find understanding, giving readers tools to help them solve any problem in science and engineering.

The Design of High-Efficiency Turbomachinery and Gas Turbines, Second Edition, With A New Preface

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This comprehensive textbook is unique in its design-focused approach to turbomachinery and gas turbines. It offers students and practicing engineers methods for configuring these machines to perform with the highest possible efficiency. Examples and problems are based on the actual design of turbomachinery and turbines.

Modeling and Analysis of Communicating Systems

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Complex communicating computer systems—computers connected by data networks and in constant communication with their environments—do not always behave as expected. This book introduces behavioral modeling, a rigorous approach to behavioral specification and verification of concurrent and distributed systems. It is among the very few techniques capable of modeling systems interaction at a level of abstraction sufficient for the interaction to be understood and analyzed.

Understanding and Managing the Complexity of Healthcare

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Breakthroughs in medical science, innovations in medical technologies, and improvements in clinical practices occur today at an increasingly rapid rate. Yet because of a fragmented healthcare delivery system, many Americans are unable to benefit from these developments. How can we design a system that can provide high-quality, affordable healthcare for everyone? In this book, William Rouse and Nicoleta Serban introduce concepts, principles, models, and methods for understanding, and improving, healthcare delivery.

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