TY - BOOK AU - Holtzapple,Mark Thomas TI - Concepts in engineering SN - 007282199X (acidfree paper) AV - TA153 .H65 2003 PY - 2005/// CY - Boston PB - McGraw-Hill Higher Education KW - Engineering N1 - Includes index; 1. The Engineer. 2. Engineering Ethics. 3. Problem Solving. 4. Introduction to Design. 5. Engineering Communications. 6. Numbers. 7. Tables and Graphs. 8. SI System of Units. 9. Unit Conversions N2 - Concepts of Engineering is an abridged version of Holtzapple's well-liked Foundations of Engineering. The book gives freshman engineering students a solid foundation for all their future coursework. It provides an overview of the engineering profession, an introduction to the skills students need to develop, and fundamental engineering topics such as thermodynamics, rate processes and Newton's laws ER -