2014-15 Textbooks and Resources
Below is a list of textbooks, resources and videos that you may want to consider acquiring. These are useful as references and support for the PLTW curriculum. A class set is recommended if purchasing textbooks. If a textbook is referenced
in the resource and video area, a teacher copy is recommended. These textbooks and reference materials are NOT required; they are suggestions should you wish to augment your resources. Schools and teachers are free to substitute any
textbook or reference material with resources of their own choosing.
Program
Textbooks
Unit/Class
Title
Other Possible Resources & Videos
Title
Publisher/Supplier
Design & Modeling
N/A
N/A
Automation & Robotics
Gateway to Engineering
Rogers, Wright, Yates, ©2010
Instructor Resources
ISBN-13: 978-1-4180-6180-7
Through the Gateway: Readings to Accompany Gateway to
Engineering
Rogers, Wright, Yates 2010
ISBN - 13: 978-1-4180-6179-1
CourseMate & eBook supplements available; please
contact your Delmar representative for more information.
Gateway to Engineering
Rogers, Wright, Yates, ©2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-4180-6178-4
GTT
Publisher/Supplier
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
AR - Video 1: An Important Place in World History 1992
Item # 26231
AR - Video 2: Fundamentals of Industrial Robots
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
Meridian Education Corp
PO Box 911
Monmouth Junction, New Jersey 08852-0911
t: 800-727-5507
f: 888-340-5507
AR - Video 3: Robots: An Important Place in World History
Energy & the Environment
EE - Video The Next Frontier: Engineering the Golden Age
of Green (complimentary copies available for educators)
Flight & Space
Science of Technology
Magic of Electrons
Green Architecture
N/A
N/A
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http://www.thenextfrontiermovie.com/dvd.htm
Program
Textbooks
Unit/Class
Title
PTE
IED
POE
DE
Other Possible Resources & Videos
Publisher/Supplier
Engineering Design - 2nd Edition:
An Introduction
Karsnitz, Hutchinson, O’Brien ©2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-1116-4582-3
Principles of Engineering
Handley, Coon, Marshall, ©2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4354-2836-2
Digital Electronics
Reid, Dueck, ©2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4390-6000-1
AE
BE
Publisher/Supplier
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
Engineering Design - 2nd Edition:
An Introduction
Karsnitz, Hutchinson, O’Brien ©2012
Workbook
ISBN-13: 978-1-1116-4584-7
Instructor Resources
ISBN-13: 978-1-1116-4585-4
Virtual & Physical Modeling
for Engineering Design
Student Activity Manual; Clark, Ernst
ISBN-13: 978-1-4354-3905-4
CourseMate & eBook supplements available; please
contact your Delmar representative for more information.
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
Principles of Engineering
Handley, Coon, Marshall, ©2012
Workbook
ISBN-13: 978-1-4354-2837-9
Instructor Resources
ISBN-13: 978-1-4354-2838-6
CourseMate & eBook supplements available; please
contact your Delmar representative for more information.
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
Digital Electronics
Reid, Dueck, ©2012
Instructor Resources
ISBN-13: 978-1-4390-5997-5
CourseMate & eBook supplements available; please
contact your Delmar representative for more information.
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
NOVA: Welcome To Mars (2005)
www.amazon.com
When We Left Earth - The NASA Mission (2008)
www.amazon.com
The Right Stuff
(2-Disc Special Edition)(1983)
Warner Home Video
ASIN: B000092T6N
www.amazon.com
Aerospace Engineering
Senson, Ritter, ©2012
Workbook
ISBN-13: 978-1-4354-4754-7
Instructor Resources
ISBN-13: 978-1-4354-4755-4
CourseMate & eBook supplements available; please
contact your Delmar representative for more information.
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
Biotechnology An Introduction, Updated Edition (2nd ed.)
(One class set)
Susan R Barnum
ISBN: 10:0495112054
Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
PTE
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
Aerospace Engineering
Senson, Ritter, ©2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4354-4753-0
Title
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Program
Textbooks
Unit/Class
Title
CEA
PTE
CIM
Other Possible Resources & Videos
Publisher/Supplier
Civil Engineering
& Architecture
Matteson, Kennedy, Baur, ©2012
ISBN-13: 978-1-4354-4164-4
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
CNC Programming:
Principles and Applications
Mattson, ©2010
ISBN-13: 978-1-4180-6099-2
EDD
Title
Civil Engineering
& Architecture
Matteson, Kennedy, Baur, ©2012
Workbook
ISBN-13: 978-1-4354-4165-1
Instructor Resources
ISBN-13: 978-1-4354-4166-8
Architectural Graphic Standards, 11th Ed.
The American Institute of Architects
ISBN-13:978-0-471-70091-3
CourseMate & eBook supplements available; please
contact your Delmar representative for more information.
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
CNC Programming:
Principles and Applications
Mattson, ©2010
Instructor Resources
ISBN-13: 978-1-4180-6100-5
CourseMate & eBook supplements available; please
contact your Delmar representative for more information.
Delmar, Cengage Learning
PO Box 6904
Florence, Kentucky 41022
t: 800-354-9706
f: 800-487-8488
Cybersearch: Research Techniques in the Electronic Age
1998
John Butler
ISBN: 0140513876
Penguin Books USA
Borders Books
www.borders.com
Invention by Design: How Engineers get from Thought to
Thing 1998
Henry Petroski
ISBN: 0674463684
Harvard university Press
79 Garden Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
t: 800-405-1619
f: 800-406-9145
The Engineer is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful
Design 1992
Henry Petroski
ISBN: 0-649734163
Vintage Books USA
Borders Books
www.borders.com
The Independent Inventor's Handbook: The Best Advice
from Idea to Payoff
Louis Foreman, Jill Gilbert Welytok
IISBN-978-0-7611-4947-7
www.amazon.com
N/A
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Publisher/Supplier