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In order to mitigate textbook problems, we have teamed up with Amazon, Powell's, and Barnes & Noble to give you more choices and flexibility in textbook ordering (used textbooks are also frequently available online).
This is a fairly comprehensive list of the courses offered in our department, along with the required texts. Each listing has at least one hyperlink to Amazon, Powell's (an independent bookstore in California), and/or Barnes & Noble so you can shop around. You can also visit UC Bookstore's online textbook ordering system. If they have used books in stock, they will show up in their catalog and they do not charge for delivery. If you are worried about selling your books at the end of the quarter, UC Bookstores will buy textbooks regardless of where you bought them. Barnes & Noble also has a textbook buyback program.
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- 20 AEEM 100 INTRO TO AEROSP ENG: Brandt, Stiles, Bertin & Whitford, Introduction to Aeronautics: A Design Perspective (also available from Reiters), MIXED MEDIA EDITION (includes AeroDYNAMIC), 1997, AIAA Education Series: 1563473046
AIAA has released a 2004 edition that is not packaged with AeroDYNAMIC. The cost of the 2004 edition is $75 for AIAA Members and $100 for non-members; the cost of the AeroDYNAMIC software is $65 for AIAA Members and $95 for non-members. - 20 AEEM 110 TO AIRCRAFT ENG: Brandt, Stiles, Bertin & Whitford, Introduction to Aeronautics: A Design Perspective (also available from Reiters), MIXED MEDIA EDITION (includes AeroDYNAMIC), 1997, AIAA Education Series: 1563473046
AIAA has released a 2004 edition that is not packaged with AeroDYNAMIC. The cost of the 2004 edition is $75 for AIAA Members and $100 for non-members; the cost of the AeroDYNAMIC software is $65 for AIAA Members and $95 for non-members. - 20 AEEM 111 INTRO SPACECRAFT ENG: Sellers, Understanding Space, 4th ed, McGraw-Hill: 0072943645 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 211 BASIC INTEG ENGG: No book required; references: Haug & Arora, Applied Optimal Design, Wiley; Ertas & Jones, The Engineering Design Process, Wiley
- 20 AEEM 212 PROBABILISTIC ENGG: Vining, Statistical Methods for Engineers 2/e, 2005, Duxbury Press: 0534384730 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
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- Related books:
- 20 AEEM 313 MOD AND SIM PHY SYS: Palm, System Dynamics, 1/e (2005), McGraw-Hill: 0073016039 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 329 ENGG MEASUREMENTS: Morris, A., Measurement & Instrumentation Principles, 2001, Butterworth Heinemann: 0750650818 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 342 FND AERODYNAMICS: Anderson, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, 4th ed, McGraw Hill (2005): 0072950463 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 352 VIBRATIONS: Inman, Engineering Vibrations, 2001/2nd ed, Prentice Hall: 013726142X | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 360 NUM METH FOR ENG DES: Fausett, Applied Numerical Analysis Using Matlab, 1999, Prentice Hall: 0133198499 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 361 INTEG AIRCRAFT ENGG: Megson, T.H.G., Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, 3rd ed (1999), Butterworth-Heinemann: 0340705884
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Reference: Inman, Engineering Vibrations, 2nd ed, Prentice Hall - 20 AEEM 371 INTEG EM I: Megson, T.H.G., Aircraft Structures for Engineering Students, 3rd ed (1999), Butterworth-Heinemann: 0340705884 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 382 AERO VEHICLE PERF: Shevell, Fundamentals of Flight, 2nd ed (1989), Prentice Hall: 0133390608 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 403 FUND CONTROL THEORY: Phillips, Feedback Control Systems, 4th ed, 1999, Prentice Hall: 0139490906 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 430 MATRIX STRUCT ANAL: McGuire, Matrix Structural Analysis With MASTAN2, 2nd ed w/ CD-ROM (2000), John Wiley & Sons: 0471376515 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 438 SOLID MECHS LAB: OPTIONAL Mechanics of Materials, 3rd ed., F. P. Beer & E. R. Johnston, Jr., McGraw-Hill, 2001: 0072486732 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 445 GAS DYNAMICS: Anderson, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, 4/e, McGraw Hill: 0072950463
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Fox, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 6th ed (Jul 2003), John Wiley & Sons: 0471202312 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
REFERENCE: John, Gas Dynamics, 2/e (1984), A&B: 0205080146 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble - 20 AEEM 452 FLIGHT MECHANICS: Nelson, Flight Stability and Automatic Control, 3rd ed (1998), McGraw Hill: 0070462739 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 456 APPL AERODYNAMICS: Anderson, Fundamentals of Aerodynamics, 4th ed, McGraw Hill (2005): 0072950463 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 462 INTEG SPACECRFT ENG: Larson and Wertz, Space Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd ed (1999), Kluwer Academic Publishers: 0792359011 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 472 INTEG EM II: Larson and Wertz, Space Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd ed (1999), Kluwer Academic Publishers: 0792359011 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 474 AIRBREATHING PROPUL: Saravanamutto, Gas Turbine Theory, 5th ed (2001), Prentice Hall: 013015847X | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 480 COMPUTATIONAL MECH: No book required
- 20 AEEM 502 AIRCRAFT DESIGN I: Raymer, Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, 3rd ed (1999), AIAA: 1563473437 (CD-ROM version), 1563472813 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 512 AIRCRAFT DESIGN II: Raymer, Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, 3rd ed (1999), AIAA: 1563473437 (CD-ROM version), 1563472813 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 515 SPACECRAFT DESIGN I: Wertz, Space Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd ed, Kluwer: 0792359011 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 517 SPACECRAFT DESIG II: Wertz, Space Mission Analysis and Design, 3rd ed, Kluwer: 0792359011 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 529 001 NONDESTRUCTIVE TEST: Bray, Nondestructive Evaluation, 2nd ed (1997), CRC Press: 0849326559 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 530 001 COMP FL DYNAMICS: Anderson, Computational Fluid Dynamics, 6th ed (1995), McGraw-Hill: 0070016852 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 574 AERODYN MEAS LAB: Course Packet
- Holman, Experimenal Methods for Engineers, 6th ed, McGraw-Hill: 0070296669
- Kuethe & Chow, Foundations of Aerodynamics, 1986, Wiley: 0471806943
- 20 AEEM 575 PROPUL & FLUID LAB: No book required
- 20 AEEM 576 ROCKET PROPULSION: Sutton, Rocket Propulsion Elements, 7th ed (1999), Wiley Interscience: 0471326429 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 597 COMPOSITE STRUCT: Daniel & Ishai, Engineering Mechanics of Composite Materials, 1994, Oxford University Press: 0195075064 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
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Engineering Fundamentals (ENFD) courses
- 20 ENFD 101 MECHANICS I: Beer, Vector Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics, 7th ed (New Media), Jul 2003, McGraw-Hill: 0072931108 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 ENFD 102 MECHANICS II: Beer, Vector Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics, 7th ed (New Media), 1999/2003, McGraw-Hill: 0072931108
- 20 ENFD 103 MECHANICS III: Beer, Vector Mechanics: Statics and Dynamics, 7th ed (New Media), 1999/2003, McGraw-Hill: 0072931108
- 20 ENFD 383 BASIC FLUID MECH/20 ENFD 385 HONORS FLUID MECHANICS: Fox, Introduction to Fluid Mechanics, 6th ed (Jul 2003), John Wiley & Sons: 0471202312 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 601 ADV STRENGTH MATL: Cook & Young, Advanced Mechanics of Materials, 2nd ed (1999), Prentice Hall: 0133969614 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 603 ANALY DYNAMICS I: own book
- 20 AEEM 604 ANAL DYNAMICS II: own book
- 20 AEEM 636 SPACECRAFT DYNAMICS: Sidi, Spacecraft Dynamics and Control: A Practical Engineering Approach, 3rd ed (2002), Cambridge University Press: 0521787807
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- Optional: Wiesel, Spaceflight Dynamics, 2/e (1997), McGraw-Hill Higher Education: 0070701105
- 20 AEEM 641 INTRO TO COMP FLOW: Anderson, Modern Compressible Flow, 3rd ed (2002), McGraw-Hill Higher Education: 0072424435 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 661 EXP METH FLUID MECH: Goldstein, Fluid Mechanics Measurements, 2nd ed. (1996), Taylor & Francis: 156032306X | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 676 H T FOR PROP SYS: TEMPORARY TEXT Kays, Crawford & Weigand, Convective Heat and Mass Transfer, 4th ed. (2005), McGraw-Hill: 0072468769 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 681 MECHANICS OF STRUCT: Course Packet
- 20 AEEM 693 ADV FLIGHT MECH: Stevens and Lewis, Aircraft Control & Simulation, 2nd ed. (2004), Wiley: 0471371459 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 695 ORBITAL MECH I: Vallado, Fundamentals of Astrodynamics & Applications, 2nd ed (2001), Kluwer: 0792369033 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble | Astrobooks. NOTE: The softcover version of this book is available at Astrobooks for about $50.
- 20 AEEM 721 INELASTICITY I: No book required?
- 20 AEEM 728 INTRO TO ULTRASONIC: ?
- 20 AEEM 930 ADV PROPULSION SYS: Mattingly, Elements of Gas Turbine Propulsion w/ IBM 3.5' Disk, 1st ed. (1996), McGraw-Hill: 0079121969 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 931 ADV PROPULSION SYST II: Mattingly, Elements of Gas Turbine Propulsion w/ IBM 3.5' Disk, 1st ed. (1996), McGraw-Hill: 0079121969 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 AEEM 972 SEMINAR AERO & EM: No book required
Engineering Graduate Fundamentals (EGFD) courses
- 20 EGFD 615 INTRO TO MOD CTR TH: Bay, John S., Linear State Space Systems, 1999, McGraw-Hill: 0256246394 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 622 OPT CONTROL: Bryson, Applied Optimal Control, 1981, Taylor & Francis: 0891162283 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 631 INTRO COMB THEORY: Turns, Introduction to Combustion: Concepts and Applications, 2nd ed, McGraw-Hill: 007235044X | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 632 GAS TURB COMB: Lefebvre, Gas Turbine Combustion, 2nd ed (1999), Taylor & Francis: 1560326735 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 637 COMP FL DYN: Anderson, Computational Fluid Dynamics, 1st ed (1995), McGraw-Hill: 0070016852 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 650 TECHNOLOGY LAW: Mallor, Barnes, et al., Business Law: The Ethical, Global, and E-Commerce Environment, 12th ed (2003), McGraw-Hill/Irwin: 0072860952 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 701 ELASTICITY I: Boresi, Elasticity in Engineering Mechanics, 2nd ed (2000), Wiley Interscience: 0471316148 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 702 ELASTICITY II: Boresi, Elasticity in Engineering Mechanics, 2nd ed (2000), Wiley Interscience: 0471316148 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 703 ELASTICITY III: Boresi, Elasticity in Engineering Mechanics, 2nd ed (2000), Wiley Interscience: 0471316148 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 705 F E TECH I: (OPTIONAL) Cook, Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis, 4th ed (2001), Wiley & Sons: 0471356050 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 706 F E TECH II: (OPTIONAL) Cook, Concepts and Applications of Finite Element Analysis, 4th ed (2001), Wiley & Sons: 0471356050 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 720 MULTIVAR CONTR: Sanchez-Pena, R., Robust Systems: Theory and Applications, 1998, John Wiley & Sons: 0471176273 | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 742 TURB FLOWS: David Wilcox, Turbulence Modeling for CFD, 2nd ed (1998), DCW Industries: 192872910X
- 20 EGFD 746 NUM METH COMP FL: Tannehill, Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, 2nd ed (1997), Taylor & Francis: 156032046X | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 751 NUM METH TRANS PHEN: John Tannehill, Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, 2nd ed (1997), Taylor & Francis: 156032046X | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
- 20 EGFD 781 NUM METH VISC FLOWS: John Tannehill, Computational Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer, 2nd ed (1997), Taylor & Francis: 156032046X | Powell's | Barnes & Noble
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