As with any art, science, or discipline, natural talent is only part of the equation. Consistent success stems from honing your skills, cultivating good techniques, and hard work. Design engineering, a field often considered an intuitive process not amenable to scientific investigation, is no exception. Providing descriptive theory, broad context, and practical examples, Design Engineering: A Manual for Enhanced Creativity explores how to quantify creativity, codify inspiration, and document a process seemingly based solely on intuition. The authors discuss how to clarify the design task, conceptualize candidate solutions, and search for alternatives. They delineate how these phases fit into an industrial context, including engineering product development, and what to consider during design engineering to satisfy all customers. The book discusses activities and methods for performing engineering design work in a rational, reviewable, and documented way, increasing the likelihood of finding an optimal solution. The presentation covers substantiated use of intuition and opportunism as an integral part of rational, systematic, and methodical designing. It examines the influence of other topics on the work, such as psychology, computers, teamwork, application of methods, and education. The authors recommend that results from these less systematic activities be brought into the rational and systematic framework to document the results. Based on the authors' extensive industrial experience, the book elucidates a coherent body of knowledge of design engineering. The book clearly details an easily applicable theory that not only gives you solid design tools, but can also be adapted to any existing design situation.

Conceptual modeling has always been one of the cornerstones for information systems engineering as it describes the general knowledge of the system in the so-called conceptual schema.Krogstie, Opdahl and Brinkkemper compiled 20 contributions from renowned researchers covering all aspects of conceptual modeling on the occasion of Arne Sølvberg’s 67th birthday. Many friends of this information systems modeling pioneer happily contributed their latest research results from fields like data modeling, goal-oriented modeling, agent-oriented modeling, and process-oriented modeling. Overall, the contributions reflect the most important developments and application areas of conceptual modeling in recent years, and they also pinpoint trends in conceptual modeling for the next decade.
This wide selection corresponds to the broad spectrum of Arne’s activities and long-term responsibilities with the VLDB Endowment, IFIP, and ERCIM. Arne was presented with this book at CAiSE 2007, when the event which he cofounded in 1989 returned to his hometown of Trondheim. 

This book is a great theoretical introduction to DSP. Although its size looks intimidating and there is a lot of math, this book is very good for a beginner because firstly, the size of the book is due to numerous examples as well as clear and detailed explanations for most of the concepts and secondly, it is possible to skip over much of the math if you are so inclined and take away the gist of the section. This is the case in some of the more advanced topics covered which may be suitable for a second reading.

Some of the things I liked in this book are:
- The organization of the material and lucidity of the writing and explanation
- Consistency of notation
- The concepts of frequency in continuous and discrete time signals in Chapter 1
- The long introduction to discrete time systems and the concepts of linear time invariance in Chapter 2
- The explanation of Fourier series and Fourier transforms of continuous time and discrete time signals (periodic and non periodic) in Chapter 4 is the best part of this book
- Frequency domain characteristics of LTI systems in Chapter 4
- The way the DFT was introduced and its relationship with the DTFT in Chapter 5
- Sampling and reconstruction of signals in Chapter 9

An ideal program for struggling students

Geometry: Concepts and Applications covers all geometry concepts using an informal approach.

Table of contents

Chapter 1 Reasoning in Geometry
Chapter 2 Segment Measure and Coordinate Graphing
Chapter 3 Angles
Chapter 4 Parallels
Chapter 5 Triangles and Congruence
Chapter 6 More About Triangles
Chapter 7 Triangle Inequalities
Chapter 8 Quadrilaterals
Chapter 9 Proportions and Similarity
Chapter 10 Polygons and Areas
Chapter 11 Circles
Chapter 12 Surface Area and Volume
Chapter 13 Right Triangles and Trigonometry
Chapter 14 Circle Relationships
Chapter 15 Formalizing Proof
Chapter 16 More Coordinate Graphing and Transformations

If you’re new to AutoCAD, relax. It may look tough, but with a little help from AutoCAD 2007 For Dummies, you’ll have it purring like a kitten in no time. This practical and humorous guide shows you the easy way to create precise 2-D and 3-D technical drawings using AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT. Based primarily on the authors’ real-world experience, it demonstrates reliable, proven methods, and steers you away from flashy features that may demo well, but won’t help you get your work done. This friendly, easy-to-follow guide delivers what you need to know about:

• Creating a basic layout
• Drawing and editing
• Writing text in drawings
• Plotting
• Creating and editing an external reference file
• CAD standards
• Drawing on the Internet

Fully updated to reflect the changes in latest AutoCAD release, AutoCAD 2007 For Dummies gets you past the jitters in a hurry and guides you gently to AutoCAD proficiency.