Engineering Report Writing


Book Description

The author is a retired consulting mechanical engineer & professor of engineering. This book was written primarily for engineering students writing first reports. It is currently used in universities across the United States. Practicing engineers find it a concise guide for preparing reports & useful for publication or commentary in technical journals. Chapters include: What Report Writing Skills are Important to You; Purpose: Defining What Must Be Accomplished; Format; Figures & Tables; Photography; Engineering Report Style & Correct American English; Equations; The Master vs. Copy Concept--Reproduction Process; Writing the Report; The Spoken vs. the Written Word; Word Processing (computer graphics); Correction Code; Glossary; Sample Laboratory Reports. Quantity orders may be placed through university book stores, individual orders through United Western Press, 637 Valley Ave., Solana Beach, CA 92075, Tel: 619-481-1990, FAX: 619-481-0980.




Syncom Engineering Report


Book Description

The report is first of a planned series of reports on the Syncom Satellite System. It is an engineering report covering the satellite, the communications ground stations and the telemetry and control ground stations. This report covers a description of each of the Syncom Satellite System Subsystems in addition to their operation and performance. The time period covered by this report is from launch through the first one hundred fifty days in orbit. The material contained in this report was furnished by the Hughes Aircraft Co., El Segundo, California, the United States Army Satellite Communications Agency, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, and the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland.




Writing for Science and Engineering


Book Description

Resumen: Are you a post-graduate student in Engineering, Science or Technology who needs to know how to: Prepare abstracts, theses and journal papers Present your work orally Present a progress report to your funding body Would you like some guidance aimed specifically at your subject area? ... This is the book for you; a practical guide to all aspects of post-graduate documentation for Engineering, Science and Technology students, which will prove indispensable to readers. Writing for Science and Engineering will prove invaluable in all areas of research and writing due its clear, concise style. The practical advice contained within the pages alongside numerous examples to aid learning will make the preparation of documentation much easier for all students.