Mechanical Engineering: Career Perspective

As a budding mechanical engineer of the future, you have to take studies very seriously because after that, if you want to be licensed, you have to have a practical application and experience of the work a mechanical engineer does before you can even pass the screenings to get licensure. It might be a long [...]

Nanomaterials: An Introduction to Synthesis, Properties and Applications

Product DescriptionThis first full-colored introduction to nanomaterials and nanotechnology addresses in particular the needs of engineers who have to know the special phenomena and potentials, without going into too much scientific detail of the physics and chemistry involved.
Based on the author’s own successful courses, Nanomaterials: [...]

Physics of Ferroelectrics: A Modern Perspective

Product DescriptionDuring the past two decades, revolutionary breakthroughs have occurred in the understanding of ferroelectric materials, both from the perspective of theory and experiment. First principles approaches, including the Berry phase formulation of ferroelectricity, now allow accurate, quantitative predictions of material properties, and single crystalline thin films are now available for fundamental studies of these [...]

An Outside Perspective

An Outside Perspective
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES – About 20 times a year, the Urban Land Institute visits cities around the world to study a local land-use issue and make a set of recommendations. Last week, the group came to Los Angeles to analyze the city’s vision of a Cleantech Corridor running between Alameda Street and the [...]