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Engineering System Dynamics (Control Engineering)

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I have used this text for 2 years as part of the author's engineering systems's courses at Lehigh University. I think it is an outstanding pedagogical approach to energy-based modeling. While the focus is on Bond Graph methodology,the author stresses the art of applying fundamental insight and intuition to the modeling process. An attentive reader can develop a logical and simple, yet powerful, framework for modeling a wide variety of engineering eystems. Now that I am in graduate school, I think that the mindset I developed from this text gives me a unique advantage.

There are many interesting dynamic modeling problems, including aircraft carrier landings, eardrum vibrations and even MEMS to name a few. In most cases, extracting the differential equations governing the dynamic behavior becomes a very direct procedure, following the construction of the bond graph models.