- Instrumentation and Instrumental Analysis
- Instrumental Methods of Analysis
- Advance Instrumentation Techniques
- Analytical Instrumentation
- Virtual Instrumentation
- Automotive Instrumentation
- Industrial Instrumentation
- Sensors in Instrumentation
1. Instrumentation and Instrumental Analysis
1."Instrumentation in Analytical Chemistry, 1988 – 1991" by Louise Voress
“Instrumentation in Analytical Chemistry, 1988 – 1991” Book Review: This book provides a complete overview of the entire field of analytical instrumentation and features state-of-the-art developments. It concentrates on robotics, computers, and laboratory data management; atomic and molecular spectroscopy. The book also explains electroanalytical chemistry and chemical sensors; separations; mass spectroscopy, and surface analysis.
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2."Principles of Instrumental Analysis" by HOLLER and CROUCH
“Principles of Instrumental Analysis” Book Review: This book explains the principles and applications of modern analytical instruments. The new updated edition of the book highlights the theoretical basis of each type of instrument, its optimal area of application, its sensitivity, its precision, and its limitations. It introduces elementary analog and digital electronics, computers, and treatment of analytical data. The book also contains a companion website with tutorials on instrumental methods. It also includes excel files of data analysis and simulations of analytical techniques to help them visualize important concepts.
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3."Luminescence: The Instrumental Key to the Future of Nanotechnology" by Adam M Gilmore
“Luminescence: The Instrumental Key to the Future of Nanotechnology” Book Review: This book explains the nanoscale semiconductor field by amalgamating a broad multidisciplinary arena including applications for energy conservation. It illustrates materials performance enhancement, electronic circuitry, video displays, lighting, photovoltaics and quantum computing. The book starts with a complete introduction of the photophysics, instrumentation and experimental methodology of nanomaterial luminescence. Further, it highlights advanced research areas that have either shown potential, or have already realized, significant impact on the daily aspects of modern life and the world economy.
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4."Measurement Uncertainties in Science and Technology" by Michael Grabe
“Measurement Uncertainties in Science and Technology” Book Review: This book demonstrates the breakdown of traditional error calculus in the face of modern measurement techniques.
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5."Microfluidic Chip-Capillary Electrophoresis Devices" by Ying Sing Fung and Qidan Chen
“Microfluidic Chip-Capillary Electrophoresis Devices” Book Review: This book illustrates how devices can be integrated into a single, revolutionary device that can provide on-site analysis of samples when laboratory services are unavailable. It provides a comprehensive overview of MC and CE technology as well as technology that now allows for the fabrication of MC-CE devices. It explains MC and CE technology as well as technology that now allows for the fabrication of MC-CE devices. The book also demonstrates achievements already done by the application of MC-CE devices in hospitals, clinics, food safety, and environmental research. The book concludes with a summary of the current methodology and application of MC-CE devices, including their merits, limitations, and potential. It highlights the path to be taken for future development of MC-CE and anticipates new advances in technology.
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6."Chemical Instrumentation: A Systematic Approach" by Howard A Strobel and William R Heineman | |
7."Analytical Instrumentation: Performance Characteristics and Quality (Analytical Techniques in the Sciences" by Graham Currell
“Analytical Instrumentation: Performance Characteristics and Quality (Analytical Techniques in the Sciences” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview on analytical instrumentation. This book links together an understanding of performance characteristics with an appreciation of the limitations imposed by instrument design. It covers major instrumental techniques such as spectrophotometry, chromatography, capillary electrophoresis, and atomic emission spectroscopy. The book contains 200 questions and answers with reference which helps to understand the concept thoroughly. It is useful for professional chemists, technicians and students, whether with reference to specific analytical techniques, or within a general course of study in instrumental performance. It talks about performance characteristics and quality related to instrumentation. It describes methods relevant to purchase of equipment, estimating uncertainties in instrumental measurements, quantifying, and demonstrating performance quality. It discusses ways for leading the interplay of the validation and qualification processes within quality assurance systems which is beneficial for professional chemists, technicians, and students. | |
8."Analytical Instrumentation" by Chinttan and CHINTTAN PUBLICATIONS
“Analytical Instrumentation” Book Review: This book explains the basics of analytical instrumentation and includes the various instrumental methods. It covers various separation and different electro-analytical techniques. It illustrates the UV & VIS absorption spectrometry and some of the important laws of photometry, Quantitative Analysis and radiation sources. The book also describes the concepts such as optical filters, monochromators, optical components, photosensitive detectors, photomultiplier tubes (PMT),diode arrays (D.A.),colorimeters, filter photometers. It introduces the different methods of nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometry. The chapter concludes with an explanation on electrons and ion spectrometers. The book is designed for the students of instrumentation engineering courses. It is also useful for students of MSc, BSc, Electronics, Electronic Science and Instrumentation Science.
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9."Principles of Instrumental Analysis" by Douglas A Skoog
“Principles of Instrumental Analysis” Book Review: The book introduces the readers to topics like the elementary analog and digital electronics, computers, and the treatment of analytical data. Other important concepts covered in the book are an emphasis on the fundamental principles of operation for each type of instrument, its optimal area of application, its sensitivity, its precision, and its limitations.
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2. Instrumental Methods of Analysis
1."Instrumental Methods of Analysis" by Willard and H Merrit
“Instrumental Methods of Analysis” Book Review: This book provides current methods of instrumental analysis and a reference for the future. It covers topics like chemometrics, robotics, laboratory information management systems and the role of instrumentation in the overall analytical method. In this book, treatment of graphite furnace AA, ICP and DCP, fourier transform instruments, hyphenated methods, ion chromatography and photoacoustic spectroscopy is deeply explained. A proper discussion of the role of the computer in current instrumentation and laboratories is also covered. This book is designed for students, teachers, and professionals in the field of engineering and science. The book is especially beneficial for undergraduate students of mathematics, science, or engineering. Professional engineers, teachers, and researchers will also find this book useful. It also includes practical assessments with their solutions.
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2."Principles of Instrumental Analysis" by D Skoog
“Principles of Instrumental Analysis” Book Review: This book includes the principles and applications of modern analytical instruments. This book also introduces elementary integrated circuitry, microprocessors and computers and the treatment of analytical data. This book includes 6 new case studies. At the end of each chapter, it consists of a challenging problems that refers to the case studies to provide a better understanding. It includes high-quality data from modern instruments, e.g. FTIR. It includes chapters containing spreadsheet examples with references to the excel book and includes corresponding end-of-chapter spreadsheet problems. This book provides illustrative examples to provide proper understanding. The book will be useful for undergraduate students and professors. The book will act as a guide for students. Professional engineers, teachers, and researchers will also find this book useful.
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3. Advance Instrumentation Techniques
1."Advances in Instrumentation" by WIEDEMANN | |
2."Advances in Ultrasonic Techniques and Instrumentation (Clinics in Diagnostic Ultrasound)" by Peter N T Wells
“Advances in Ultrasonic Techniques and Instrumentation (Clinics in Diagnostic Ultrasound)” Book Review: This book provides information about the latest research in techniques and instrumentation of diagnostic ultrasound. The book describes the quality management and picture archiving of ultrasonic techniques.
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3."Modern Electronic Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques" by Helfrick
“Modern Electronic Instrumentation and Measurement Techniques” Book Review: The book provides information about modern electronic instrumentation and measurement techniques, ranging from basic to advanced level. It introduces some materials as an introduction to difficulties of measurement.
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4."Fundamentals of Bioanalytical Techniques and Instrumentation" by Ghoshal and Sabari
“Fundamentals of Bioanalytical Techniques and Instrumentation” Book Review: The book discusses the techniques, instruments and applications of bioanalysis. The book describes hydrodynamic techniques such as sedimentation and centrifugation thoroughly. It provides information about diffraction methods and bioreactors. The book contains applications of computers in fermentation technology. It contains separation and spectroscopic methods of experimental design and data analysis.
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5."Measurement Techniques in Industrial Instrumentation" by S K Sen
“Measurement Techniques in Industrial Instrumentation” Book Review: This book provides information about graphic symbols, identification codes, function blocks, standard connecting lines. It describes the functional diagramming techniques. It helps in selecting the proper instruments of the measuring system. It gives details of instrument symbols, PFDs & P & IDs.
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6."Instrumentation and Measurement in Electrical Engineering" by Roman Malaric
“Instrumentation and Measurement in Electrical Engineering” Book Review: The book is beneficial for engineers, practitioners and students of electrical engineering. It describes the analogue and digital instruments. The book gives information about instrument transformers, bridges, amplifiers, oscilloscopes and sensors. This book provides instrument controls and measurement systems.
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7."The Laboratory Recorder (Laboratory Instrumentation and Techniques)" by Galen Ewing
“The Laboratory Recorder (Laboratory Instrumentation and Techniques)” Book Review: The book describes electrical analog recorders, which records or converts any signal into electrical form. It explains that a laboratory recorder is necessary for diagnosing many ailments. It discusses the advantages of these recorders over manual recorders.
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8."Introduction to Nuclear Radiation Detectors (Laboratory Instrumentation and Techniques)" by P Ouseph
“Introduction to Nuclear Radiation Detectors (Laboratory Instrumentation and Techniques)” Book Review: The book is useful for scientists and technicians of geology, chemistry, biochemistry and medicine. This book describes the nuclear radiation detectors, including gas counter and scintillation counter. It discusses the efficiency, energy resolution and resolving time of these detectors. It explains the interaction of radiations with matter.
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9."Methods in Rock Magnetism and Palaeomagnetism: Techniques and instrumentation" by D. Collinson
“Methods in Rock Magnetism and Palaeomagnetism: Techniques and instrumentation” Book Review: The book discusses the developments in the field of palaeomagnetism. It contains information about the origin of the geomagnetic field. The book provides the magnetic properties of iron-titanium oxide and iron sulphide minerals. It also gives the magnetization processes in rocks.
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10."Geoscience: Instrumentation and Analytical Techniques" by Joe Carry
“Geoscience: Instrumentation and Analytical Techniques” Book Review: The book is beneficial for students, researchers and professionals who are interested in the field of geoscience. It discusses the instruments and techniques used in geoscience. The book includes data management systems, remote sensing techniques and evaluation of different measurements.
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4. Analytical Instrumentation
1."Principles of Instrumental Analysis" by Douglas A Skoog and James Holler
Book Review: This is a very good textbook for courses that are based upon the principles and applications of modern analytical instruments. The book contains updated techniques and many case studies suitable for the field of instrumental analysis. The book stresses on the theoretical basis of each instrument type, optimal area of application, sensitivity, precision and limitations. The book also contains chapters on analog and digital electronics, computers, and analytical data treatment.
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2."Instrumental Methods of Analysis" by Willard H W Merritt and L L Dean J A Settie FA
Book Review: The book is divided into four major sections which are transfer and processing of information, spectroscopic methods, separation methods and electrochemical methods. This book is used as a reference textbook at the graduate level courses in the field of instrumental analysis. The book covers many principles and practices that are used for instrumental analysis.
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3."Fundamentals of Analytical Chemistry" by Douglas A Skoog and Donald M
Book Review: This book combines readability with systematic and rigorous approaches. The book also extensively covers principles and practices of quantitative chemistry that is very suitable for chemistry majors. The author of the book has received his degree in analytical chemistry from University of Illinois. The author is also the recipient of American Chemical Society award in analytical chemistry. The author has also received the ACS division of analytical chemistry award for excellence in teaching. The author was also a professor of chemistry at Stanford University.
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4."Instrumental Methods of Chemical Analysis" by Galen W Ewing
Book Review: This is a very good textbook in the field of instrumental analysis. The book provides a very good overview of techniques in the field of instrumental analysis. The book also presents electroanalytical techniques and electrochemical methods. The book contains mass spectral techniques, high performance electrophoresis, high performance gas and liquid chromatography methods. This book is very useful for people who want to specialize in instrumental methods of chemical analysis.
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5."Analytical Instrumentation Handbook" by Jack Cazes and Jack Cazes
“Analytical Instrumentation Handbook” Book Review: This book provides a fundamental overview on analytical instrumentation. It provides clear instruction on the most frequently utilized analytical instrumentation techniques. It describes commercially available instruments that can be used for analytical instrumentation in detail. It provides an introductory description of the techniques and a theoretical treatment of the science and technology. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of technology and science especially mechanical and instrumentation engineering.
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6."Analytical Instrumentation" by Bila G Liptak and Bela G Liptak
“Analytical Instrumentation” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview on analytical instrumentation. It provides information that helps analyzers for detecting pollutants and other hazardous matter. It provides details on analyzing carbon monoxide, chlorine, fluoride, hydrogen sulfide, mercury, phosphorus, and much more. It covers methods for selection, application, and sampling procedures. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of technology and science especially mechanical and instrumentation engineering.
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7."Introduction to Soil Chemistry: Analysis and Instrumentation" by Alfred R Conklin
“Introduction to Soil Chemistry: Analysis and Instrumentation” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview on introduction to soil chemistry. It describes the analysis and instrumentation methods beneficial for soil chemistry. It covers topics like large features like horizons, peds, soil color, and soil naming, microscopic to atomic orbital description of soil chemical characteristics, soil components in combination, and much more. It talks about biological and organic components in soil, soil solution and soil air. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of technology and science.
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8."Analytical Chemistry for Technicians" by Kenkel
“Analytical Chemistry for Technicians” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview on analytical chemistry for technicians. It covers sample preparation, gravimetric analysis, titrimetric analysis, instrumental analysis, and much more. It talks about spectrochemical methods such as atomic spectroscopy, UV-Vis, and IR molecular spectrometry. It describes various chromatographic techniques required for analytical chemistry. It discusses mass spectrometry, covering GC-MS, LC-MS, LC-MS-MS, and ICP-MS. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of technology and science especially chemical and instrumentation engineering.
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9."Functional Thin Films and Nanostructures for Sensors: Synthesis, Physics and Applications (Integrated Analytical Systems)" by by Anis Zribi and Jeffrey Fortin
“Functional Thin Films and Nanostructures for Sensors: Synthesis, Physics and Applications (Integrated Analytical Systems)” Book Review: This book provides a fundamental overview on functional thin films and nanostructures for sensors. It discusses techniques for synthesis, physics, and applications of integrated analytical systems. It describes guidelines and design rules for sensor systems, interaction between functional thin films and other sensor subsystems. It provides information on fundamentals behind the intrinsic functionality in sensing thin films and nanostructures along with state-of-the-art technologies used to develop sensors. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the field of technology and science.
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10."Instrument Engineers Handbook Vol. I" by B G Liptak
“Instrument Engineers Handbook Vol. I” Book Review: This book provides a fundamental overview on instrumentation. It covers the measurement, control, and software aspects of automation. It includes topics to help operators assess and respond to plant conditions, software to monitor, control, and optimize industrial processes. It also talks about strategies to counteract changes in market conditions, energy, and raw material costs. It touches upon techniques to provide the safety of plant operations. It explains the holistic approach to integrating process and networks and the problems involving cyber and local network security, energy conservation, etc.
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5. Virtual Instrumentation
1."Virtual Instrumentation Using Labview" by Jerome J
“Virtual Instrumentation Using Labview” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of instrumentation and control engineering, electronics and instrumentation engineering. And also for electrical and electronics engineering, electronics and communication engineering, and computer science and engineering. This book covers the graphical system design model and its different phases of functionality such as design, prototyping, and deployment. It includes the basic concepts of graphical programming and highlights the features and techniques used in LabVIEW to create Virtual Instruments (VIs). The book teaches how to make a VI as a subVI. Arrays, clusters, structures, and strings in LabVIEW are covered in detail. The book also includes coverage of emerging graphical system design technologies for real-world applications.It will also be useful to engineering students of other disciplines where courses in virtual instrumentation are offered.
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2."Virtual Instrumentation using LABVIEW" by Sanjay Gupta
“Virtual Instrumentation using LABVIEW” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of instrumentation and control engineering, electronics and instrumentation engineering. And also for electrical and electronics engineering, electronics and communication engineering, and computer science and engineering. This book covers the graphical system design model and its different phases of functionality such as design, prototyping, and deployment. This book serves the academic community as literature and form of instruction on VI, and as a practical text for practicing technologists. It is thus useful for both the beginner and the professional program developer.
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3."LabVIEW for Electric Circuits, Machines, Drives, and Laboratories (National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation Series)" by Nesimi Ertugrul
“LabVIEW for Electric Circuits, Machines, Drives, and Laboratories (National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation Series)” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of instrumentation and control engineering, electronics, and instrumentation engineering. It is thus useful for both the beginner and the professional program developer. It includes periodic waveforms, harmonics, equivalent resistance, and equivalent circuits; AC circuit analysis, power triangles, power factor correction, and three-phase AC systems; magnetic circuits.It also includes phasors, transformers, and complex/active/reactive powers. Finally, it focuses on techniques of simulation and animation for understanding the operation of the diode and SCR conduction, diode rectifiers, AC choppers, cyclo converters, and inverters.
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4."Image Processing with LabVIEW and IMAQ Vision (National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation Series)" by Thomas Klinger
“Image Processing with LabVIEW and IMAQ Vision (National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation Series)” Book Review: It is thus useful for both the beginner and the professional program developer. This book deals with Image Processing and Image Analysis, which are rapidly evolving technologies in the measurement of non-electrical data. It includes image generation and image distribution, new technologies require new methods and algorithms. It also includes LabVIEW and IMAQ Vision, tools for constructing these algorithms, which are a breakthrough in computer programming.
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5."Hands-On Exercise Manual for LabVIEW Programming, Data Acquisition and Analysis (Virtual Instrumentation)" by Jeffrey Y Beyon
“Hands-On Exercise Manual for LabVIEW Programming, Data Acquisition and Analysis (Virtual Instrumentation)” Book Review: This book is designed for engineers, scientists, and technicians . LabVIEW is a revolutionary graphical programming development environment used to write virtual instruments. It includes test and measurement application needs for data acquisition and control, data analysis, and data presentation. This exercise guide functions as a stand-alone “short-course” for learning LabVIEW programming or as an add-on exercise manual to Beyon’s LabVIEW Programming Data Acquisition, and Analysis.
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6."Remote Instrumentation and Virtual Laboratories: Service Architecture and Networking" by Franco Davoli and Norbert Meyer
“Remote Instrumentation and Virtual Laboratories: Service Architecture and Networking” Book Review: This book is designed for engineers, scientists, and technicians. It focuses on all aspects related to the effective exploitation of remote instrumentation. It also discusses making instrumentation fully integrated into the e-science scenario by considering middleware, networking, and metrological aspects. And the building of complex virtual laboratories on top of real devices and infrastructures. These include SOA and related middleware, high-speed networking in support of Grid applications, wireless Grids for acquisition devices and sensor networks, Quality of Service (QoS) provisioning for real-time control, measurement instrumentation, and methodology, as well as metrology issues in distributed systems.
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7."Logic Pro X For Dummies" by Graham English
“Logic Pro X For Dummies” Book Review: This book is designed for engineers, scientists, and technicians. This book provides the know-how for navigating the interface, tweaking the settings, picking the sounds, and all the other tech tasks that get in the way of capturing the perfect take. It contains recorded live sound sources or built-in virtual instruments, discovers tips to speed the process, and records on an iPad. Later focuses on making sense of the latest software updates. This book is updated to reflect the ongoing changes added to enhance Logic Pro X’s recording power.
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8."Coordinate Metrology: Accuracy of Systems and Measurements (Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering)" by Jerzy A Sładek
“Coordinate Metrology: Accuracy of Systems and Measurements (Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering)” Book Review: The book is intended for master and Ph.D. students, as well as for metrology engineers working at industrial and research laboratories. This book focuses on effective methods for assessing the accuracy of both coordinate measuring systems and coordinate measurements. The book describes the implementation of different methods, including artificial neural networks, the Matrix Method, the Monte Carlo method, and the virtual CMM (Coordinate Measuring Machine). And demonstrates how these methods can be effectively used in practice to gauge the accuracy of coordinate measurements.
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9."Real World SQL and PL/SQL: Advice from the Experts" by Arup Nanda and Brendan Tierney
“Real World SQL and PL/SQL: Advice from the Experts” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of instrumentation and control engineering, electronics, and instrumentation engineering. This book covers how to effectively use both languages together. Written by a team of Oracle ACE Directors, Real-World SQL. And PL/SQL: Advice from the Experts features best practices, detailed examples, and insider tips that clearly demonstrate how to write, troubleshoot, and implement code for a wide variety of practical applications. The book thoroughly explains underutilized SQL and PL/SQL functions and lays out essential development strategies. And also Data modeling, advanced analytics, database security, secure coding, and administration are covered in complete detail.
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10."Virtual Bio-Instrumentation: Biomedical, Clinical, and Healthcare Applications in LabVIEW (National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation)" by Jon B Olansen and Eric Rosow
“Virtual Bio-Instrumentation: Biomedical, Clinical, and Healthcare Applications in LabVIEW (National Instruments Virtual Instrumentation)” Book Review: This book is designed for undergraduate and postgraduate students of instrumentation and control engineering, electronics, and instrumentation engineering. It includes applications across diverse medical specialties, detailed design guides for LabVIEW and BioBench applications. It also contains hands-on problem-solving throughout the book, numerous VI’s with source code, plus several demos, are available on the book’s website. Both students and practicing professionals will appreciate the practical applications offered for modeling fundamental physiology, advanced systems analysis.
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6. Automotive Instrumentation
1."Automotive Computer and Digital Instrumentation" by Robert N Brady
“Automotive Computer and Digital Instrumentation” Book Review: This book includes description of some important topics in automotive engineering. When it comes to automotive engineering, the mainstream aspects like engine, fuel, battery etc. normally come to the mind. But the other technical aspects are equally important. Some of these aspects are computer and digital instrumentation. The book explains in great detail these topics which are important for the working of automotive systems. The book starts with basic topics of computer and digital instrumentation in automotive systems. Then it goes on to discuss the in-depth working of these systems. Every topic is analyzed with the help of examples and pictures. This helps the readers to better comprehend the topic and apply the theory in practice. The book is useful for automotive engineers, and students looking to succeed in the course.
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2."Instrument Panel Design Issues" by Society of Automotive Engineers
“Instrument Panel Design Issues” Book Review: This book provides extensive study of the problems faced by automotive engineers in the field. The issues discussed are related to instrument panel design which are commonly found in modern automotive systems. The instrumental panel is an important part of a vehicle and due care must be taken while handling it. The book describes how the Instrument Panel Cluster (IPC), or vehicle dashboard, is one of the few devices with which the vehicle communicates to the driver and therefore how important it is to take care of this system. The book then goes on to describe devices such as a driver information center and heads-up display which are considered subsystems or add-on devices to the IPC. The book is ideal for automotive engineers, students and researchers. The research included in the book provides the readers with a practical approach to learning of panel design issues.
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3."Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 99" by Detlef E Ricken and Wolfgang Gessner
“Advanced Microsystems for Automotive Applications 99” Book Review: This book provides a broad knowledge of microsystems, which are an important part of the automobile industry. It contains a large number of microsystem applications. Some of the applications discussed in the book are engine management, exhaust, and air quality control, immobilizers, ABS, anti skid (ASC), and vehicle dynamics control (VDC), smart airbag systems. Some safety applications like obstacle detection and vision enhancement have also been explained in great detail. This book is useful for automotive engineers, automobile suppliers, and manufacturers. The applications are discussed with the help of diagrams and detailed procedures so that the readers get a blend of theoretical and practical knowledge. The topics are explained along with the pictures so that concepts become clear and easy to understand.
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4."Smart Structures in Instrumentation for Astronomy" by Marco Riva
“Smart Structures in Instrumentation for Astronomy” Book Review- This book provides a comprehensive approach to systems with which smart structures are ported into design and construction of next generation instrumentation for Astronomy. In order to include a practice-oriented approach , the book uses an optical spherical mirror with actively deformable curvature for technological and numerical research. Numerical tools are used for the performance evaluation. The technology developed for the embedding of SMA actuators in smart structures including the interface analysis with the host material is described. Some possible performance modelling approaches and control systems of the actuators are also addressed. The book is designed for space engineering enthusiasts and astronomical engineers and will also benefit students of related subjects.
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5."Reeds Vol 10: Instrumentation and Control Systems (Reeds Marine Engineering and Technology Series)" by Gordon Boyd and Leslie Jackson
“Reeds Vol 10: Instrumentation and Control Systems (Reeds Marine Engineering and Technology Series)” Book Review: The book is based on the topic of instrumentation and control systems and their application to marine engineering. It covers established processes and protocols and extensive developing technology. The content ranges from simple measurement devices to highly sophisticated automated control and instrumentation systems. It also includes a section on electrical equipment in hazardous areas describing hazards, gas groups and temperature classifications. SMART sensors and protocols as well as computer based systems are also described. The book is created for professional trainees studying Merchant Navy Marine Engineering Certificates of Competency (CoC). It will also benefit Electrical/Marine Engineering undergraduate students.
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6."Instrumentation, Measurements, and Experiments in Fluids" by Ethirajan Rathakrishnan
“Instrumentation, Measurements, and Experiments in Fluids” Book Review: This book is primarily focused on essentials required for experimentation in fluids, explaining basic principles, and addressing the tools and methods needed for advanced experimentation. It also provides insight into the vital topics and issues associated with the devices and instruments used for fluid mechanics and gas dynamics experiments. It also contains exercise problems with answers, along with PIV systems of flow visualization, water flow channel for flow visualization. The pictures with Schlieren and shadowgraph help the readers in extracting quantitative information. The book is useful for aerospace engineers and undergraduate students. Examples are provided wherever needed so that the readers get an application based knowledge along with practical understanding of the subject matter.
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7."Anthropomorphic Dummies and Crash Instrumentation Sensors" by Society of Automotive Engineers
“Anthropomorphic Dummies and Crash Instrumentation Sensors” Book Review: This book includes contents based on automotive systems. Development and Improvement of Finite Element Side Impact Dummy (EUROSID) Model Based on Experimental Verifications is an important topic covered in a comprehensive manner. The book discusses in detail how the development of more complex occupant protection systems, in the automotive industry, has resulted in the need for additional anthropomorphic tests. Other topics like Occupant Detection Systems, Different Approaches for Airbag Triggering Units Using a Firing Bus are also discussed. The book is useful for automotive engineers, researchers and students. It provides application based understanding of the subject matter. The pictures and diagrams help to understand the theory in a practical way.
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8."Instrument Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-15b" by Federal Aviation Administration
“Instrument Flying Handbook: FAA-H-8083-15b” Book Review: This book discusses how human and aerodynamic factors affect instrument flight, the flight instruments, attitude instrument flying for airplanes, basic flight maneuvers used in IMC, attitude instrument flying for helicopters,etc. Some important systems like navigation systems, the National Airspace System (NAS), the air traffic control (ATC) system, instrument flight rules (IFR) flight procedures, and IFR emergencies are also explained thoroughly. This handbook conforms to pilot training and certification concepts established by the FAA. selected methods and concepts for instrument flying are also discussed. The discussion and explanations reflect the most commonly used practices and principles which makes it easy for readers to apply the principles in the real world. The book provides a blend of theoretical and practical knowledge to the readers. It is designed for use by instrument flight instructors and pilots preparing for instrument rating tests.
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9."Electronic Instrumentation Displays and Sensors" by SAE
“Electronic Instrumentation Displays and Sensors” Book Review: This book contains a compilation of eighteen papers on automotive electronic information systems. An overview is provided of speech synthesis as another means of providing driver information, and a dot matrix graphic display is described. Liquid crystal and vacuum fluorescent display technologies are discussed. Display coordinate dimming and visual recognition time of analog and digital systems are addressed. Instrumentation functions discussed include: distance-to-empty, fuel level, time, distance-to-destination, fuel used, and fuel economy. The role of sensors and microcomputers in automotive electronic instrumentation is considered. The book is useful for automotive engineers, researchers and students. The examples provided help the readers to have an application based understanding of the subject.
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10."Introduction to Mechatronics and Measurement Systems (Mechanical Engineering)" by David G Alciatore
“Introduction to Mechatronics and Measurement Systems (Mechanical Engineering)” Book Review: This book provides comprehensive and accessible coverage of the evolving field of mechatronics. It covers review of electrical circuits, solid-state devices, digital circuits, and motors- all of which are fundamental to understanding mechatronic systems. Mechatronics design considerations are presented throughout the text, and in “Design Example” features. The text’s numerous illustrations, examples, class discussion items, and chapter questions & exercises provide an opportunity to understand and apply mechatronics concepts to actual problems encountered in engineering practice. The book provides a blend of theoretical and practical understanding. It is useful for students of mechanical, electrical and aerospace engineering majors as well as practising engineers.
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7. Industrial Instrumentation
1."Hand Book of Applied Instrumentation" by Considine and Ross
“HandBook of Applied Instrumentation” Book Review: This book provides a fundamental overview on the handbook of applied instrumentation. It covers topics like process control, resistance, capacitance, inductance, AC electricity, magnetic forces, analog circuits, digital circuits, pressure, level formulas, level sensing devices, and much more. It talks about flow formulas, flow measurements, application considerations, temperature and heat formulas, temperature measurement devices, and others. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the numerous fields of engineering and technology.
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2."Industrial Instrumentation" by D P Eckman
Book Review: This book reviews many principles of the measurement methods that are employed in industrial processing and manufacturing. The book gives more importance to methods rather than mechanisms. The book covers physics fundamentals, engineering applications fundamentals and analytical approaches to the measurement problems. This book is mainly for engineering graduates. It includes elements of calculus, mechanics, thermodynamics and fluid dynamics. All the problems in the book are elementary.
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3."Industrial Instruments" by K Krishnaswamy and S Vijayachitra
Book Review: This is a very good textbook for students of electronics and instrumentation engineering, control engineering and chemical engineering. The topics in the book deal with instrument types, measurements and process variable controls. The book covers parameters like temperature, pressure, force, torque, velocity, acceleration, density, viscosity, humidity and moisture. The book is also a very good reference book for professionals in instrumentation and control in many manufacturing and process industries.
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4."Food Processing Principles and Applications" by J.S.Smith
Book Review: This book is written by a group of international academicians and food industry professionals. This book carefully examines food processing principles and illustrates their application by describing the stages and operations for manufacturing different categories of food products. This is a very good undergraduate textbook and uses commodity manufacturing to illustrate the principles of food processing. This book is also very useful for food industry professionals.
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5."Process Control Fundamentals for the Pulp and Paper Industry" by Nancy Jean Sell
Book Review: This book covers all the process control aspects that are used in paper and pulp industry. The book focuses on lambda tuning which is considered very effective for many pulp and paper industry applications. This is a very good reference book for pulp and paper mill engineers and the book contains many chapters on various topics, problems, case studies, quizzes and many more.
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6."Industrial Instrumentation and Control" by S K Singh
“Industrial Instrumentation and Control” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview on industrial instrumentation and control. It covers instrumentation from theoretical and practical aspects. It discusses topics like fundamentals of electricity AC and DC, basic algebra and trigonometry, communications, electrical wiring, relay logic, process measurement, process control, and much more. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the numerous fields of engineering and technology.
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7."Industrial Instrumentation Control and Automation" by Mukhopadhyay
“Industrial Instrumentation Control and Automation” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview on industrial instrumentation control and automation. It aims to bridge the typical gap that exists in multiple electrical engineering curricula such as exposure to control and automation technologies especially encountered in industrial environments. It talks about new control architectures, sequence control, industrial actuators, and much more. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the numerous fields of engineering and technology especially electrical, mechanical, instrumentation engineering, and much more.
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8."Principal of Industrial Instrumentation" by D Patranabis
“Principal of Industrial Instrumentation” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview on the principal of industrial instrumentation. It provides in-depth theoretical and application-oriented exposure to the subject in an easy to understand manner. It talks about measurement instruments, recorder, indication, and much more. It discusses numerous elements of a measurement instrument like sensor, amplifier or conditioner, display, and others. It describes classification of instruments, pneumatic instruments, electrical or electronic instruments, and others. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the numerous fields of engineering and technology.
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9."Industrial Instrumentation: Principles and Design" by Padmanabhan Tattamangalam R Padmanabhan
“Industrial Instrumentation: Principles and Design” Book Review: This book provides a detailed overview on industrial instrumentation. It discusses the topic from principles and design perspective. It talks about pneumatic, hydraulic, and allied instrumentation schemes in detail. It talks about the building blocks of design and interface characteristics by providing numerous real-world examples. It describes topics like displacement and allied instrumentation, force and allied instrumentation, and process instrumentation. It discusses them in terms of temperature, flow, pressure level and other common process variables.
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10."Instrumentation for Process Measurement and Control" by Anderson
“Instrumentation for Process Measurement and Control” Book Review: This book provides a fundamental overview on instrumentation for process measurement and control. It provides an introduction to the field of process measurement and feedback control. It aims to bridge the gap between basic technology and more sophisticated systems. It covers pneumatic and electronic control systems, control loop adjustment, and combination control systems. It talks about actuators and valves, and process computers, and simulation. This book is designed to focus on students, teachers, and professionals in the numerous fields of engineering and technology especially electrical, mechanical, instrumentation engineering, and much more.
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11."Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Systems for Safety and Security" by Yastrebenetsky
“Nuclear Power Plant Instrumentation and Control Systems for Safety and Security” Book Review: This book provides a fundamental overview on nuclear power plant instrumentation and control systems for safety and security. It discusses the accidents and natural disasters involving nuclear power plants. It provides information using examples such as Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and the recent meltdown at Fukushima, and many more. It enables the reader to evaluate the risks inherent to nuclear power and methods of preventing accidents. It explains them through computer control systems and other such emerging technologies.
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12."Industrial Instrumentation" by Alsutko
“Industrial Instrumentation” Book Review: The book provides know-how on measuring instruments and the way they work. The coverage of the book includes planning, designing, operating, testing, analyzing, evaluating and maintaining equipment. The book takes more of a practical approach rather than taking a theoretical route. It contains just enough theory to understand the main concepts and then, focuses on the practical applications of these concepts. The instruments discussed are interdisciplinary with sections on specific applications and can provide valuable information to students in engineering, physics, chemistry and electronics etc. Questions and answers are provided after every chapter for better understanding.
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8. Sensors in Instrumentation
1."Transducers and Instrumentation" by D V S Murthy
“Transducers and Instrumentation” Book Review: The book is a rich source of knowledge in its field. The author has compressed his stock of knowledge in this volume. It provides detailed discussion on topics like data display, transmission and telemetry systems and signal processing all while focusing on the latest technologies It contains a detailed analysis of characteristics and principles of transducers and industrial sensors used in the transducers. The book has an edge over others because of its pictorial representation.
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2."Principles of Measurement Systems" by J P Bentley
”Principles of Measurement Systems” Book Review: This book is clearly designed for people new to this field. As it includes minute topics and has been successful to explain the basic principles in depth and with great clarity. It has a lot of knowledge related to old technology. This volume covers the topics like solid-state electronics, computing, optoelectronics and many other areas where measurement systems are used. It also provides solution manuals to the additional problems provided at an introductory and basic level.
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3."Microsensors: Principles and Applications" by J W Gardner
Book Review: The book describes microsensors which are built with the help of conventional thick and thin film technologies which also include recent technologies like silicon micromachining. The book contains chapters on basic signal processing, processing of materials for the fabrication of microsensors. The other topics included in the book are physical, chemical and mechanical principles that are used and the advantages that occur from the application of smart sensors and microsensor array devices. The book also contains numerous examples.
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4."Semiconductor Sensors" by S M Sze
“Semiconductor Sensors” Book Review: This book is very smartly designed for beginners. It provides complete coverage to all topics and important aspects of semiconductor sensing devices. It’s order goes in a very systematic fashion starting with semiconductor sensor classification and terminology and going further to description of semiconductor technology, bulk and micromachining. Every chapter has a short gist about it and is backed with problem statements. It also discusses the future sensor trends.
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5."Measurement, Instrumentation And Sensors Handbook" by John G Webster
“Measurement, Instrumentation And Sensors Handbook” Book Review: This book is a great contribution to the world of readers. It carries an upper edge due to its broad spectrum included in it which is not only restricted to chemistry, physics or engineering sensors. It gives a huge theory knowledge and describes the use of instruments for practical measurement. The book examines software, hardware, techniques, sensors, automatics data acquisition and much more.
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6."Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook" by Webster and Eren
“Measurement, Instrumentation, and Sensors Handbook” Book Review: This book is the second edition, this edition is more effective in certain areas like electromagnetic, radiation, biomedical and chemical measurements. It is filled with contributions from the field experts and gives detailed information about those contributions. This book can be used by academic faculty, students, designers, managers, scientists and industry professionals. It provides a great understanding to the readers from beginners level to the experts.
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7."Instrumentation and Sensors for the Food Industry" by Kress-Rogers
“Instrumentation and Sensors for the Food Industry” Book Review: This is the second edition of the book but it hasn’t failed to keep up the pace with the industry. It provides a description to all the advanced technologies. It is revised mainly to include some of the main topics which are of great use like development of on-line sensors, the measurement of food composition by a range of techniques, including colour measurement and the measurement of pressure, temperature, level, flow and viscosity. The part two of the book tries to present some of the instrumental techniques.
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8."Sensors and Signal Conditioning" by John G Webster Pall
“Sensors and Signal Conditioning” Book Review: The book is very uniquely designed by covering two main topics viz. Signal conditioning and Signal sensors and providing the readers a link between them. It is of great use for innovators and sensor designers who wish to learn about sensing and conditioning of sensors. It includes many more topics as compared to its first edition. The topics included in this edition are Wiegand sensors, fluxgate magnetometers, position-sensitive detectors and semiconductor-junction nuclear radiation detectors.
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9."Biomedical Sensors and Instruments" by P Ake Oberg Toshiyo Tamura Tatsuo Togawa
“Biomedical Sensors and Instruments” Book Review: The book is very well designed to explain how precisely one can measure the living body. As we know that it’s difficult to measure a living body as compared to an object but this book makes it very simple. It talks about accurate measurements of physiological signals and the required sensor for the same. It contains theory and practical knowledge as well. It discusses the effects on sensors due to the various factors caused by any living body namely flow, pressure, sensor, heat flow, evaporation, biomagnetism and many more.
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10."Sensors, Instrumentation and Special Topics" by Proulx
“Sensors, Instrumentation and Special Topics” Book Review: This is the sixth edition of this book and this time too they have been upcoming with very new and innovative topics of the field. It also compiles a lot of contributions made in the area of research so that the readers can gain knowledge on it. It also has a compilation of case studies on applied aspects of Structural Dynamics. It also includes papers on Structural Control, Dynamics of Multi-Physical Systems, Biological Systems, Analytical Methods, Dynamic Systems and Simulation.
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11."Advanced Instrumentation and Computer I/O Design Defined Accuracy Decision, Control, and Process Applications" by Patrick H Garrett
“Advanced Instrumentation and Computer I/O Design Defined Accuracy Decision, Control, and Process Applications” Book Review: This book provides a comprehensive overview on advanced instrumentation and computer I/O design defined accuracy decision, control, and process applications. It discusses electronic device and circuit specifications useful for designing custom defined instrumentation and computer interfacing systems. It offers updated chapters incorporating the latest electronic devices and system applications, improved accuracy of the design models. It lays focus on problems which are based on actual industry, laboratory, and aerospace system designs. It provides numerous real-world case studies performed for technology enterprises. It talks about an instrumentation analysis suite for computer I/O system design.
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