Product Description: As iPads and similar touch-screen devices continue to flood the market, engineering programs are seeking to integrate these platforms into student education. With total market penetration of perhaps 125 million iPads sold to date and nearly half a billion smartphones (all brands) shipped in 2011 alone1 for a total of just over 1 billion smartphone users currently holding active accounts worldwide2, the transition to highly-mobile touch screen computing is upon us...read more

Product Description: As you should know by now, the Engineering Psychology curriculum is unique among academic fields at West Point because of its interdisciplinary and integrated electives. All cadets take the same electives in the same sequence. This design allows maximum integration among courses and eliminates the “dump” mentality...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this book is to study the effects of the Southern railroad system on interior lines during the Civil War and determine whether or not the South enjoyed the advantage of interior lines. The use of railroads during this conflict placed an enormous physical strain upon the limited industrial resources of the Confederacy, and a great strain upon the intellectual agility of the Confederate High Command...read more

Product Description: Despite technological advances, hand-to-hand combat remains a persistent aspect of the contemporary operating environment (Wojadkowski, 2007). To develop a more detailed understanding on the use of hand-to-hand combat, the researcher analyzed 30 Post-Combat Surveys administered to US Army Soldiers from 2004 to 2008 after their return from deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan...read more

Product Description: Is there mutual benefit in a relationship between China and NATO? What shape might such a relationship take, and what are the ramifications for both China and NATO member states? This paper argues that China and NATO share a common interest in maintaining security of the global commons, and that such a relationship could appeal to NATO’s desire to extend cooperative security beyond the Euro-Atlantic area while offering the Chinese a means for protecting their interests on the global stage in a constructive, non-threatening manner...read more