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Acknowledgments

I would like to express my appreciation to the many students and faculty whose comments have helped me improve
the book. I am most grateful to the following people for offering their comments, suggestions, and ideas:
Pierre Larochelle, Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, FL; Scott Larwood, University of the Pacific,
Stockton, CA; Justin Chang, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA; Jasna Bogunovic Jacobsen, University
of Stavanger, Norway; Jeong Su, Jeonnam University, South Korea; Ehsan Rezae, University of Nebraska, Lin-
coln, NE; Junpeng Zhao, Beihang University, Beijing, China; Daniel Granger, Polytechnic School of Montreal,
Canada; K. M. Rao, V.R.S. Engineering College, Vijayawada, India; K. S. Shivakumar Aradhya, Gas Turbine
Research Establishment, Bangalore, India; Donald A. Grant, University of Maine; Tom Thornton, Stress Ana-
lyst; Alejandro J. Rivas, Arizona State University; Qing Guo, University of Washington; James M. Widmann,
California Polytechnic State University; G. Q. Cai, Florida Atlantic University; Richard Alexander, Texas A & M
University; C. W. Bert, University of Oklahoma; Raymond M. Brach, University of Notre Dame; Alfonso Diaz-
Jimenez, Universidad Distrital “Francisco Jose de Caldas,” Colombia; George Doyle, University of Dayton; Hamid
Hamidzadeh, South Dakota State University; H. N. Hashemi, Northeastern University; Zhikun Hou, Worches-
ter Polytechnic Institute; J. Richard Houghton, Tennessee Technological University; Faryar Jabbari, University of
California, Irvine; Robert Jeffers, University of Connecticut; Richard Keltie, North Carolina State University; J. S.
Lamancusa, Pennsylvania State University; Harry Law, Clemson University; Robert Leonard, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University; James Li, Columbia University; Sameer Madanshetty, Boston University; M. G.
Prasad, Stevens Institute of Technology; F. P. J. Rimrott, University of Toronto; Subhash Sinha, Auburn Univer-
sity; Daniel Stutts, University of Missouri-Rolla; Massoud Tavakoli, Georgia Institute of Technology; Theodore
Terry, Lehigh University; Chung Tsui, University of Maryland, College Park; Alexander Vakakis, University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign; Chuck Van Karsen, Michigan Technological University; Aleksandra Vinogradov,
Montana State University; K. W. Wang, Pennsylvania State University; William Webster, GMI Engineering and
Management Institute; Faissal A. Moslehy, University of Central Florida; Masoud Mojtahed, Purdue University;
and F. Ernesto Penado, Northern Arizona University.
I would like to thank Purdue University for granting me permission to use the Boilermaker Special in Problem
2.104. My sincere thanks to Dr. Qing Liu for helping me in writing some of the MATLAB programs. I need to ap-
preciate my granddaughters, Siriveena and Samanthake, for their many intangible contributions that made my work
very pleasant. Finally, I wish to thank my wife, Kamala, without whose patience, encouragement, and support this
edition might never have been completed.

SINGIRESU S. RAO
srao@miami.edu

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