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Introduction To Engineering Design

Digital Electronics
Principles of Engineering
Computer Integrated Manufacturing
Civil Engineering and Architecture
Gateway To Technology
Supplemental Materials:
Text, Video and CDs

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Fischertechnik


In response to requests from teachers and schools in the PLTW Network, we have listed the recommended textbooks for each course, materials (referenced in our curriculum) that could be added to the classroom library, and titles of instructional videos and CDs.

All of these titles appear in our Purchasing Manual, along with ISBN numbers, costs and vendors, for your convenience.

 Below is the suggested listing of instructional materials divided per course.


Introduction To Engineering Design (IED)

Delmar Learning
5 Maxwell Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065
Phone#: 800-824-5179


Student text: Engineering Drawing and Design,
3rd Edition
Madsen, Folkestad, et al
ISBN: 0-7668-1634-6
Optional:
Workbook: Engineering Drawing and Design
Standiford and Stark
ISBN: 0-7668-1636-2
Optional:
Solution Manual: Engineering Drawing and Design
Madsen, Mikesell, Turpin and Stark
ISBN: 0-7668-4336-x

Digital Electronics (DE)

Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
PO Box 543
Blacklick, Ohio 43004
800-334-7334


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Delmar Learning
5 Maxwell Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065
 800-824-5179

Student Text:
Digital Electronics Principles and Applications
Tokheim
ISBN: 0-02804161-5
Student Text: Digital Electronics

 
Bignell and Donovan
ISBN: 0-7668-0328-7
Experiments Manual Tokheim
ISBN: 0-02-804162-3
Lab Manual to Accompany Digital Electronics, 4th Edition Bignell and Donovan
ISBN:0-7668-0330-9
 
Instructor’s Manual Tokheim
ISBN: 0-02804163-1
 

Principles of Engineering (POE)
John Wiley and Sons
1 Wiley Drive
Somerset, NJ 08875
732-469-4400

Great Lakes Press
PO Box 550
Wildwood, MO 63040
636-273-6016

Student Text: Introduction to Engineering, 3rd Edition
 
Wright
ISBN: 0-471-05920-x
 
Supplemental Texts:
Engineering Your Future: A Comprehensive Approach, 3rd Edition Oakes, Leone, Gunn
ISBN: 1-881018-90-3

 

Computer Integrated Manufacturing (CIM)
Delmar Learning
5 Maxwell Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065
Phone#: 800-824-5179
Prentice-Hall, Inc
Upper Saddle River, NJ 07458
Student Text: CNC Programming – Principles and Applications Mattson
ISBN: 0-7668-1888-8
The CNC Workshop
 
Nanfara, Uccello, Murphy
ISBN: 0-13-091412-6
Robot Technology Fundamentals James G. Keramas
ISBN: 0-8273-8236-7
   
Instructor’s Guide to Accompany Robot Technology Fundamentals Keramas
ISBN: 08273-8237-5
 

Civil Engineering and Architecture
Delmar Learning
5 Maxwell Drive
Clifton Park, NY 12065
Phone#: 800-824-5179

Architectural Drafting and Design, 4th Edition

Jefferis, Madsen
ISBN: 0-7668-1546-3

Gateway To Technology
Glencoe/McGraw-Hill
PO Box 543
Blacklick, Ohio 43004
800-334-7334

Student Text: Technology Interactions Swernofsky
ISBN: 0-02-838779-1
Teacher’s Resource Guide
 
Swernofsky
ISBN: 0-02-677701-0


Supplemental Materials: Text, Video and CDs
 
AIM Media
9710 Desoto Ave
Chatsworth, CA 91311-4409
818-341-6700

Video: Simple and Compound Machines
Item #: 977ENMV

Meridian Educational Corp
236 Front Street
Bloomington, IL 61701
800-272-5507

Video: Robotic: An Important Place in World History
Item # 5421

Educorp
12 B West Main Street
Elmsford, NY 10523

Video: The Mystery of Light
Item # VTC914T

Book:
Computer Control of Machines with Fischertechnik Modeling Systems
Item # Xx

Book:
Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
Item # BOK968T


CD:
Energy 2000 CD-ROM
Quantity 13
Item # IGS944T

Book:
Machines Understanding Science Usborn Machine
Item #: BOK962T

CD:
Understanding Science
Quality 13
Item #: IGS320T

Modern School supplies
PO Box 958
Hartford, CT 06143
800-934-7206

CD:
The Way things Work 2.0
Item # 731106
 

Broadhead Garrett
100 Paragon Parkway
Mansfield, OH 44703
800-321-6730

Book: Safe and Simple Electrical Experiments
Item # B990915

Book:
Electricity
Item # B15113

Book:
Lasers
Item # B990406

Book:
How Electronic Motors Start and Run
Item # B119328

Book:
Energy and Power
Item # B614815

Text:
Energy: Sources, Applications and Alternatives
Item # B616188

Workbook:
Energy: Sources, Applications and Alternatives
Item # B616189

Teacher’s Guide:
Energy: Sources, Applications and Alternatives
Item # B616190

Book:
Basic Machines and How they Work
Item # T990916


 

 

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