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Fall 2025 Engineering Textbooks Online

Below is a list of Fall 2025 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. All engineering textbooks are available on course reserve at the Art, Architecture & Engineering Library.

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

AEROSP | BMECEE | ChE | CLIMATE | ECEEECS | EER | ENGR | ENSCEN | ENTR | IOE | ISD | MFG | ME | MSE | NAVARCH | NERS | ROB | SPACE | TCHNCLCM

Aerospace Engineering Online Textbooks

AEROSP 513 (Shaw)
Introduction to linear elasticity by P.L. Gould and Y. Feing. 4th ed. 2018. Platform: SpringerLink (To purchase a print copy of this book for $39.99, look for the "MyCopy Softcover" link at the SpringerLink site).

Elasticity by J.R. Barber. 3rd edition. 2010. Platform: SpringerLink (To purchase a print copy of this book for $39.99, look for the "MyCopy Softcover" link at the SpringerLink site).

AEROSP 526 (Fidkowski)
Hypersonic and high-temperature gas dynamics by John D. Anderson. 2nd ed. 2006. Platform: Skillsoft Books.

AEROSP 574 (Pulkkinen)
Physics of space storms : from the surface of the Sun to the Earth by Hannu E.J. Koskinen. 1st ed. 2011. Platform: SpringerNature.

Biomedical Engineering Online Textbooks

BME 211 (Weiland)
Fundamentals of electric circuits by Charles K. Alexander. 7th ed. 2021. Platform: Ebook Central. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users)

BME 331 (Grotberg)
Biofluid mechanics: analysis and applications by James Grotberg. 2021. Platform: Cambridge University Press.

BME 424 (Grosh)
⁨Fundamentals of acoustics by Lawrence E. Kinsler. 4th ed. 2000. Platform: Knovel.

Civil and Environmental Engineering Online Textbooks

CEE 230 (Clack)
Thermodynamics : an engineering approach by Yunus A. Çengel. 9th ed. 2019. Platform: EBook Central.

CEE 548 (Garcia)
Geotechnical earthquake engineering by Steven L. Kramer. 2nd ed. 2025. Platform: EBSCOhost. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users).

CEE 553 (Masoud)
Linear and Nonlinear Programming by David G. Luenberger. 4th ed. 2016. Platform: SpringerNature.
Model building in mathematical programming by H. Paul Williams. 5th ed. Platform: Ebook Central.

CEE 591 (MacVean)
Free-surface flow : environmental fluid mechanics by Nikolaos D. Katopodes. 2019. Platform: Elsevier ScienceDirect.

Chemical Engineering Courses Online Textbooks

ChE 342 (Liu)
Fundamentals of momentum, heat, and mass transfer by James R. Welty, Gregory L. Rorrer and David G. Foster. 7th ed. 2019. Platform: Ebook Central.  (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users).

ChE 407 (First)
Chemical process safety: fundamentals with applications by Daniel A. Crowl. 3rd ed. 2011. Platform: O'Reilly Media, Inc. 

ChE 466 (Ziff)
Process dynamics and control by Dale E. Seborg and others. 4th ed. 2017. Platform: Ebook Central. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users).

ChE 487 (Tadd, Grimble)
Chemical engineering design by R. K. Sinnott and Gavin P. Towler. 3rd ed. 2022. Platform: Elsevier ScienceDirect.
Analysis, synthesis and design of chemical processes by Richard Turton. 5th ed. 2018. Platform: EBSCOhost. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users).

Climate and Meteorology Online Textbooks

CLIMATE 473 (Flanner)
Global physical climatology by Dennis L. Hartmann. 2nd ed. 2015. Platform: ScienceDirect.

CLIMATE 551 (Tu)
Fluid mechanics by Pijush K. Kundu. 7th ed. 2024. Platform: Elsevier ScienceDirect.

Electrical and Computer Engineering Online Textbooks

ECE 501 (Anastasopoulos)
Probability and random processes for electrical and computer engineers by John A. Gubner. 2006. Platform: Cambridge University Press.

ECE 517 (Kushner)
Principles of plasma discharges and materials processing by Michael A. Lieberman. 2nd ed. 205. Platform: EBook Central.

ECE 520 (Zhong)
Condensed matter in a nutshell by Gerald D. Mahan. 2011. Platform: Walter De Gruyter Publishing.

ECE 551 (Fessler)
Linear algebra for data science, machine learning, and signal processing by  Jeffrey A. Fessler. 1st ed. 2024. Platform: Cambridge University Press.

EECS Online Textbooks

EECS 203 All Sections (Staff)
Discrete mathematics and its applications by Kenneth H. Rosen. 8th ed. 2019. Platform: Ebook central online. (Access to this e-book is limited to 6 concurrent users).

EECS 215 (Terry)
Circuit analysis and design by Fawwaz Ulaby. 2024. Platform: University of Michigan.

EECS 334 (Deotare)
Introduction to Optics by Frank L. Pedrotti. 1st ed. 2018. Platform: Cambridge University Press

EECS 418 (Song)
Fundamentals of power electronics by Robert W. Erickson. 3rd ed. 2020. Platform: SpringerLink.

EECS 438 (Deotare)
Introduction to Optics by Frank L. Pedrotti. 1st ed. 2018. Platform: Cambridge University Press

EECS 498, Section 013 (Pierce)
Microwave radar and radiometric remote sensing by Fawwaz T. Ulaby. 1st ed. 2014. Platform: Ebook Central.

Entrepreneurship Online Textbooks

ENTR 390, Section 101 (Staff)
Strategic management of technological innovation by Melissa A. Schilling.⁩ 7th ed. 2023. Platform: Ebook Central. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users).

ENTR 490, Section 105 (Skifstad, Block)
Power and prediction : the disruptive economics of artificial intelligence by Ajay Agrawal. 2022. Platform: Ebook Central. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users).

Industrial And Operations Engineering Online Textbooks

IOE 373, Section 001 (Garcia-Guzman)
Excel 2019 power programming with VBA by Michael Alexander. 1st ed. 2019. Platform: Wiley Online Library.
Beginning database design : from novice to professional by Clare Churcher.⁩ 2nd ed. 2012. Platform: SpringerLink
Data mining for business analytics : concepts, techniques, and applications in Python by Galit Shmueli. 2020. Platform: Skillsoft Books.

IOE 510 (Shen)
Linear programming and network by Mokhtar S. Bazaraa. 3rd ed. 2010. Platform: Wiley Online Library.

IOE 553, Section 001 (Saigal)
Arbitrage theory in continuous time by Tomas Björk.⁩ 4th ed. 2020. Platform: Oxford Scholarship Online.

Mechanical Engineering Online Textbooks

MECHENG 335 (Kaviany)
Essentials of heat transfer : principles, materials, and applications by Massoud Kaviany, 2011. Platform: Cambridge University Press.

MECHENG 360, Section 002 (Inyang-Udoh)
System dynamics by William Palm. 4th ed. 2021. Platform: Ebook Central. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users).

MECHENG 412 (Barber)
Intermediate Mechanics of Materials by James Barber. 2nd ed. 2011. Platform: SpringerLink

MECHENG 424 (Grosh)
⁨Fundamentals of acoustics by Lawrence E. Kinsler. 4th ed. 2000. Platform: Knovel.

MECHENG 520 (Akhavan)
Fluid mechanics by Pijush K. Kundu. 7th ed. 2024. Platform: Elsevier ScienceDirect.
Fluid mechanics by Pijush K. Kundu. 6th ed. 2015. Platform: ScienceDirect.

Materials Science Engineering Online Textbooks

MATSCIE 510 (Bol)
Solid state chemistry and its applications by Anthony R. West. 2nd ed., student ed. 2014. Platform: Ebook Central.

Nuclear Engineering And Radiological Sciences Online Textbooks

NERS 311 (Zhong)
Modern physics by Kenneth S. Krane. 4th ed. 2020. Platform: Ebook Central.(Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users).

NERS 444 (Sun)
⁨Fundamentals of heat and mass transfer by Theodore L. Bergman. 8th ed. 2017. Platform: Ebook Central. (Access to this e-book is limited to 3 concurrent users).

NERS 571 (Zhang)
Fundamentals of plasma physics by Paul M. Bellan. 2006. Platform: Cambridge University Press.

NERS 578 (Kushner)
Principles of plasma discharges and materials processing by Michael A. Lieberman. 2nd ed. 205. Platform: EBook Central.

NERS 585 (Kearfott)
The essential physics of medical imaging by Jerrold T. Bushberg, 4th ed. 2021. Platform: Ebook Central.

Space Online Textbooks

SPACE 103 (Zhao)
An introduction to space weather by Mark Moldwin. 2nd ed. 2023. Platform: Cambridge University Press.

SPACE 551 (Tu)
Fluid mechanics by Pijush K. Kundu. 7th ed. 2024. Platform: Elsevier ScienceDirect.

SPACE 574 (Pulkkinen)
Physics of space storms : from the surface of the Sun to the Earth by Hannu E.J. Koskinen. 1st ed. 2011. Platform: SpringerNature.

Last Updated: Sep 10, 2025 4:09 PM
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