Series Editor J. David Irwin Auburn University This is a series that will include handbooks, textbooks, and professional reference books on cutting-edge areas of engineering. Also included in this series will be single-authored professional books on state-of-theart techniques and methods in engineering. Its objective is to meet the needs of academic, industrial, and governmental engineers, as well as to provide instructional material for teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level. This series editor, J. David Irwin, is one of the best-known engineering educators in the world. Irwin has been chairman of the electrical engineering department at Auburn University for.
