Every Wednesday afternoon in the laboratory where I used to work, we had an event called journal club. The word ‘club’ makes it sound more fun than it was. The ritual, practised in labs around the world, worked like this: one member of the lab would present a recent publication from the scientific literature that […]
Note to Students This book was created to help you on your path to a career in the transportation industry. Employability basics covered early in the text will help you get and keep a job in the field. Essential technical skills are built in cover to cover and are the core building blocks of an […]
Foreword to the 11th Edition Automotive engineering has become an extremely complex field over the last few years and decades. It is becoming increasingly more difficult to command an overview of the entire field and to maintain constant access to the subjects which are significant to automotive engineering. Many of these new subjects have in […]
Machines have come a long way since the Industrial Revolution. They continue to fill factory floors and manufacturing plants, but now their capabilities extend beyond manual activities to cognitive tasks that, until recently, only humans were capable of performing. Judging song competitions, driving automobiles, and mopping the floor with professional chess players are three examples […]
As two-strokes fire every revolution, they are the most powerful engines for their size known. Highly tuned examples develop nearly two hp per cubic inch of displacement and run happily at 11,000-plus rpm. And with only three basic moving parts, two-strokes are the simplest and least expensive form of internal combustion. Yet, for many owners […]
In this book, the fifth edition, you will find lots of use-ful information and methods relating to diagnosing faults on vehicles. It is the third in the series: • Automobile Mechanical and Electrical Systems • Automobile Electrical and Electronic Systems • Automobile Advanced Fault Diagnosis • Electric and Hybrid Vehicles • Alternative Fuel Vehicles • […]
The third edition of Fundamentals of Automotive Technology, Principles and Practice is a comprehensive resource that covers the foundational theory and skills necessary to prepare entry-level technicians to maintain, diagnose, and repair today’s light-duty vehicles. Several of the original 64 chapters have been split, creating 75 chapters in the Third Edition. The smaller chunks of […]
About the Book Manufacturers have made major and constant changes to the various systems of an automobile, and the integration and codependence of those sys-tems have made becoming a successful technician more challenging than ever. This book, Automotive Technology: A Systems Approach, was designed and written to prepare students for those challenges. The basic premise […]
With the availability of code readers and scan tools targeted at the consumer market through retailers such as Sears, Walmart, auto parts stores, and online, it’s more than evident that the aftermarket automotive electronic equipment manufacturers have realized a need for owners and enthusiasts to have access to what once was solely the domain of […]
The scene before dawn at Soekarno-Hatta International Airport in Jakarta on October 29, 2018, was like that at any other big airport in the age of routinized international travel. In the concourses, bleary-eyed families and solo travelers clumped outside gates or gulped a hurried breakfast from Dunkin’ Donuts or Burger King, the latter of which, […]
WHOM IS THIS BOOK FOR? As an artist, I’d like to say that I wrote this book for myself in the spirit of climbing a mountain “because it’s there.” But the reality is that I wrote it in response to the many voices of encouragement—either by email or in person—from people that wish to better […]
Senior Lieutenant Alexander Logachev loved radiation the way other men loved their wives. Tall and good-looking, twenty-six years old, with close-cropped dark hair and ice-blue eyes, Logachev had joined the Soviet army when he was still a boy. They had trained him well. The instructors from the military academy outside Moscow taught him with lethal […]