System Dynamics for Engineering Students
Concepts and Applications
- 3rd Edition - October 31, 2025
- Latest edition
- Author: Nicolae Lobontiu
- Language: English
System Dynamics for Engineering Students: Concepts and Applications, Third Edition provides a classical approach to system dynamics that is designed for a one-semester course fo… Read more
System Dynamics for Engineering Students: Concepts and Applications, Third Edition provides a classical approach to system dynamics that is designed for a one-semester course for upper-level undergraduate students. It focuses on mechanical, aerospace, and electrical engineering, featuring examples from compliant mechanisms and MEMS/NEMS. The text aims to offer a robust understanding of system dynamics, helping students grasp both fundamental and complex concepts. The updated edition has been reorganized and updated to enhance the flow for instructors and students. It includes a greater variety of topics, applications, and real-world examples, along with more basic examples and end-of-chapter problems.
Additionally, the edition offers comprehensive analysis and design examples, ensuring a well-rounded educational experience.
- Provides more balance between analytical and computational approaches
- Proposes an updated chapter sequence to improve the flow and connectivity of system dynamics
- Includes a three-chapter Controls section to meet the needs of programs that cover both system dynamics and controls in the course
- Integrates Lagrange’s equations as another modeling technique of dynamic systems
- Utilizes both analytical methods and MATLAB/Simulink to solve examples
Junior and senior undergraduate students in mechanical, electrical and aerospace engineering programs / Navstem estimates the current annual US academic market at 20,700 enrolled students, a 30% increase over the past decade
1. Introduction
2. The Laplace transformation
3. Mechanical elements
4. Mechanical systems
5. Electrical systems
6. Fluid and thermal systems
7. Coupled systems
8. State space modeling
9. Transfer function modeling
10. Steady-state and frequency response to harmonic input
11. Block diagrams and feedback control system modeling
12. Stability of feedback control systems
13. Time- and frequency-domain controls of feedback systems
Appendices:
A. Complex numbers
B. Matrix algebra
C. Solutions to linear homogeneous ordinary differential equations and sets with constant coefficients
D. Basics of Simulink
E. Essentials of system dynamics-related MATLAB
F. Deformations and forces in deformable bars and beams
2. The Laplace transformation
3. Mechanical elements
4. Mechanical systems
5. Electrical systems
6. Fluid and thermal systems
7. Coupled systems
8. State space modeling
9. Transfer function modeling
10. Steady-state and frequency response to harmonic input
11. Block diagrams and feedback control system modeling
12. Stability of feedback control systems
13. Time- and frequency-domain controls of feedback systems
Appendices:
A. Complex numbers
B. Matrix algebra
C. Solutions to linear homogeneous ordinary differential equations and sets with constant coefficients
D. Basics of Simulink
E. Essentials of system dynamics-related MATLAB
F. Deformations and forces in deformable bars and beams
- Edition: 3
- Latest edition
- Published: October 31, 2025
- Language: English
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Nicolae Lobontiu
Nicolae Lobontiu, Ph.D., is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Alaska Anchorage. Professor Lobontiu’s teaching background includes courses in system dynamics, controls, instrumentation and measurement, mechanics of materials, dynamics, vibrations, finite element analysis, boundary element analysis, and thermal system design.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA