Dr. Roman Kuc, Professor, Yale University; Dr. Matthew A. Lackner, Associate
Professor, University of Massachusetts, Amherst; Ryan Patrick, Lecturer,
University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Alison Pechenick, Senior Lecturer, The Univer-
sity of Vermont; Dr. Charles Riedesel, Professor, University of Nebraska,
Lincoln; Dr. Daniel F. Ryder, Jr., Associate Professor, Tufts University; Cheryl
Schlittler, Instructor, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs; Dr. Geoffrey
Shiflett, Associate Professor, University of Southern California; Dr. Hossein
Tavana, Assistant Professor, University of Akron; Shaikh Md Rubayiat Tousif,
Instructor, The University of Texas at Arlington; Phillip Wong, Lab Coordina-
tor, Portland State University; and Dr. Vladislav V. Yakovlev, Professor, Texas
A&M University.
Also, I thank those at Elsevier who helped to make this book possible including:
Todd Green, Publisher; Stephen Merken, Acquisitions Editor; Nate McFadden,
Sr. Developmental Editor; and Sujatha Thirugnana Sambandam, Production
Project Manager.
Finally, thanks go to all of my family, especially my parents Roy Attaway and
Jane Conklin, both of whom encouraged me at an early age to read and to write.
Thanks also to my husband Ted de Winter for his encouragement and good-
natured taking care of the weekend chores while I worked on this project!
The photo used in the image processing section was taken by Ron Roy.
Stormy Attaway
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Boston University