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Winter 2023 Engineering Textbooks Online

Below is a list of Winter 2023 College of Engineering course textbooks that are available electronically through the library. Click on your class department abbreviation to see if your textbook is available. To access the electronic version, click on the title of the book, then click on the "Available Online" link that appears in the catalog record. If you run into problems accessing an e-book, please report them to Ask a Librarian

THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL TEXTBOOK LIST. Books listed here may be either required textbooks or supplemental texts. Your faculty will provide you the titles of required textbooks for your classes

For a listing of e-textbooks for classes in your department, click on the department abbreviation below.

AEROSP | AUTO | BMECEE | ChE | CLIMATE | EARTH | EECS | ENSCENENGR | ENTR | IOE | MFG | ME | MSE | NAVARCH | NERS | ROB | SPACE | TCHNCLCM |

Aerospace Engineering Online Textbooks

AERO 510 (Goulbourne)
Introduction to finite elements in engineering by Tirupathi R. Chandrupatla. 5th ed. 2022.

Biomedical Engineering Online Textbooks

BME 458 (Liu and Claflin)
Medical instrumentation: application and design by John G. Webster and Amit J. Nimunkar. 5th ed. 2020. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users.)

BME 476 (Grotberg)
Biofluid mechanics : analysis and applications by James B. Grotberg. 2021. 

Civil and Environmental Engineering Online Textbooks

CEE 303 (Ivanov)
Numerical methods for engineers by Steven C. Chapra and Raymond P. Canale. 7th ed. 2015. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users). 

CEE 465 (Love)
Water and wastewater engineering: design, principles and practice by Mackenzie L. Davis. 2nd ed. 2019

CEE 533 (Ioannou)
Probability, statistics, and decision for civil engineers by Jack Benjamin. 2014.

Simulation modeling and analysis by Averill Law. 5th ed. 2015. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users). 

CEE 534 (Menassa)
Construction planning, equipment, and methods by  R.L. Peurifoy. 9th ed. 

CEE 590 (MacVean)
Free-surface flow: environmental fluid mechanics by Nikolaos D. Katopodes. 2019. 

CEE 592 (Jack)
Biological wastewater treatment by C. P. Leslie Grady. 3rd ed. 2011. 

Chemical Engineering Courses Online Textbooks

ChE 341 (Burns)
Fluid mechanics for chemical engineers: with microfluidics, CFD, and COMSOL Multiphysics 5 by James Wilkes. 3rd ed. 2017. 

ChE 344 (Nikolla)
Elements of chemical reaction engineering by H. Fogler. 6th ed. 2021. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users)

ChE 485 (Thurber)
Chemical engineering design by Ray Sinnott and Gavin P. Towler. 6th ed. 2020. 

ChE 487 (Tadd)
Chemical engineering design by Ray Sinnott and Gavin P. Towler. 6th ed. 2020.

ChE 496, Section 002 (Allman)
Advanced optimization for process systems engineering by Ignacio E. Grossmann. 2021. 

ChE 496, Section 004 (Nagrath)
BioMEMS : science and engineering perspectives by Simona Badilescu. 1st ed. 

ChE 528 (Singh)
Reaction rate theory and rare events by Baron Peters. 2017. 

Elements of chemical reaction engineering by H. Fogler. 6th ed. 2021. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users)

ChE 542 (Lenert)
Fundamentals of momentum, heat, and mass transfer by James R. Welty, Gregory L. Rorrer and David G. Foster. 7th ed. 2019. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users).

ChE 696, Section 002 (Allman)
Advanced optimization for process systems engineering by Ignacio E. Grossmann. 2021. 

ChE 696, Section 004 (Nagrath)
BioMEMS : science and engineering perspectives by Simona Badilescu. 1st ed. 

CLIMATE Online Textbooks

CLIMATE 105 (Kachuck)
The climate crisis : an introductory guide to climate change by David Archer. 2010. (Access to this e-book is limited to 6 concurrent users)

EECS Online Textbooks

EECS 203 All Sections
Discrete mathematics and its applications by Kenneth Rosen. 8th ed. 2019. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users.)
Discrete mathematics and its applications by Kenneth Rosen. 7th ed. 2012. 

EECS 270 (Tzimpragos)
Digital design and computer architecture by Sarah Harris, and David Harris. 2016. 

EECS 334 (Willingale)
Introduction to optics by Frank L. Pedrotti, Leno M. Pedrotti and Leno S. Pedrotti. 3rd ed. 2018. 

EECS 351 (Balzano)
Signal processing for communications by Paulo Prandoni and Martin Vetterli. 2008. 

EECS 370 (Brehob)
Computer organization and design by David A. Patterson. 2016. 

EECS 458 (Liu and Claflin)
Medical instrumentation: application and design by John G. Webster and Amit J. Nimunkar. 5th ed. 2020.  (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users.)

EECS 471 (Tenishev)
Programming massively parallel processors : a hands-on approach by David B. Kirk. 3rd ed. 2017. 

EECS 475 (Cheraghchi)
Introduction to modern cryptography by Jonathan Katz and Yehuda Lindell. 2nd ed. 2015.

EECS 498, Section 007 (Mathieu)
Renewable and efficient electric power systems by Gilbert M. Masters. 2nd ed. 2013. 

EECS 524 (Forrest)
Organic electronics : foundations to applications by Stephen Forrest. 1st ed. 2020.

EECS 531 (Tsang)
Antenna theory : analysis and design by Constantine A. Balanis. 3rd ed. 2005. 

EECS 539 (Galvanauskas)
Laser physics by Peter W. Milonni. 2nd ed. 2010.

EECS 557 (Ying)
Communication networks : an optimization, control, and stochastic networks perspective by R. Srikant and Lei Ying. 2014. 

Environmental Sciences and Engineering Online Textbooks

ENSCEN 211 (Zhang)
Fundamentals of nuclear science and engineering by J. Kenneth Shultis and Richard E. Faw. 3rd ed. 2017.

Nuclear energy : an introduction to the concepts, systems, and applications of nuclear processes by Raymond L. Murray and Keith E. Holbert. 8th ed. 2020. 

Nuclear energy : principles, practices, and prospects by David Bodansky. 2nd ed. 2005.  (To purchase a print copy of this book for $39.99, look for the "MyCopy Softcover" link at the SpringerLink site).

Engineering Online Textbooks

ENGR 599, Section 222 (Dinov)
Data science and predictive analytics: biomedical and health applications using R by Ivo D. Dinov. 2018. (To purchase a print copy of this book for $39.99, look for the "MyCopy Softcover" link at the SpringerLink site).

Data science: time complexity, inferential uncertainty, and spacekime analytics by Ivo D. Dinov and Milen Velchev Velev. 2021. 

ENGR 599, Section 234 (Dinov)
Data science and predictive analytics: biomedical and health applications using R by Ivo D. Dinov. 2018. (To purchase a print copy of this book for $39.99, look for the "MyCopy Softcover" link at the SpringerLink site).

Data science: time complexity, inferential uncertainty, and spacekime analytics by Ivo D. Dinov and Milen Velchev Velev. 2021. 

Industrial And Operations Engineering Online Textbooks

IOE 506 (Bayraktar)
Brownian motion and stochastic calculus by Ioannis Karatzas and Steve E. Shreve. 2nd ed. 1998. (To purchase a print copy of this book for $39.99, look for the "MyCopy Softcover" link at the SpringerLink site).

Stochastic differential equations: an introduction with applications by Bernt Oksendal. 6th ed. 2003. (To purchase a print copy of this book for $39.99, look for the "MyCopy Softcover" link at the SpringerLink site).

Stochastic calculus and financial applications by J. Michael Steele. 2001. (To purchase a print copy of this book for $39.99, look for the "MyCopy Softcover" link at the SpringerLink site).

IOE 552 (Saigal)
Arbitrage theory in continuous time by Tomas Björk. 4th ed. 2020. 

IOE 570 (Al Kontar)
Experiments: planning, analysis, and optimization by Chien-Fu Wu and Michael S. Hamada. 3rd ed. 2021

IOE 623 (Feng)
Monte Carlo methods in financial engineering by Paul Glasserman. 2003.  (To purchase a print copy of this book for $39.99, look for the "MyCopy Softcover" link at the SpringerLink site).

The mathematics of financial derivatives : a student introduction by Paul Wilmott, Sam Howison, and Jeff Dewynne. 1995.  (Access to this e-book is limited to 1 concurrent user.)

Mechanical Engineering Online Textbooks

ME 311 (Barber)
Intermediate Mechanics of Materials by James Barber. 2nd ed. 2011.

ME 335 (Fu)
Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer by Theodore L. Bergman and Adrienne S. Lavine. 8th ed. 2017. 

ME 335, Section 002 (Kaviany)
Essentials of heat transfer: principles, materials, and applications by Massoud Kaviany. 2011. 

ME 360, Section 002 (Koller)
System dynamics by William J. Palm. 4th ed. 2021.  (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users).

ME 440 (Wang)
Engineering dynamics by Jerry Ginsberg. 2008. 

ME 476 (Grotberg)
Biofluid mechanics: analysis and applications by James B. Grotberg. 2021. 

ME 512 (Barber)
Elasticity by James Barber. 2010

ME 538 (Boehman)
Internal combustion engine fundamentals by John Heywood. 2nd ed. 2018. 

ME 539 (Kaviany)
Heat transfer physics by Massoud Kaviany. 2nd ed. 2014.

Materials Science Engineering Online Textbooks

MSE 335 (Sun)
Materials kinetics fundamentals by Ryan O'Hayre. 1st ed. 2015.

Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Online Textbooks

NAVARCH 321 (Maki)
Fundamentals of ship hydrodynamics : fluid mechanics, ship resistance and propulsion by Lothar Birk. 2019.

Nuclear Engineering And Radiological Sciences Online Textbooks

NERS 211 (Zhang)
Fundamentals of nuclear science and engineering by J. Kenneth Shultis and Richard E. Faw. 3rd ed. 2017.

Nuclear energy : an introduction to the concepts, systems, and applications of nuclear processes by Raymond L. Murray and Keith E. Holbert. 8th ed. 2020. 

Nuclear energy : principles, practices, and prospects by David Bodansky. 2nd ed. 2005. (To purchase a print copy of this book for $39.99, look for the "MyCopy Softcover" link at the SpringerLink site).

NERS 250 (Todd)
Fundamentals of nuclear science and engineering by J. Kenneth Shultis and Richard E. Faw. 3rd ed. 2017. 

NERS 442 (Radaideh)
Nuclear reactor physics and engineering by John C. Lee. 2020. 

Nuclear systems. Volume 1, thermal hydraulic fundamentals by Neil E. Todreas. 3rd ed. 2021. 

NERS 585 (Staff)
The essential physics of medical imaging by Jerrold T. Blushberg. 4th ed. 2021.