本教材主要适用于已完成基础阶段学习的高等学校理工科本科生,为应用提高阶段的必修课和选修课教材,也可用作研究生教学或工程技术人员的外语培训教材。
全套教材由专业教师和英语教师合作编写而成。它以英国语言学家H.G.Widdowson的交际法理论为依据,着重解决语言运用能力的培养问题,使学生将基础已掌握的英语语言知识和技能在自己的专业领域中得到进一步实践和应用,从而达到以英语为工具获取和交流信息的教学目的。
本书是为电气与电子工程及相关专业本科生编写的专业英语(SBE)教材。 全书分20个单元,每单元由Reading and Comprehension,Reading and Practice和Reading and Translation 3部分组成。书后附Glossary供查阅。课文选材面向21世纪,力求反映时代特色,并摘自国外原版教材、文选、论著、会议论文、实用文件和报刊等。内容涉及电气与电子工程及相关专业的基本物理概念、基础工程知识、发展简史、重大发明创造、人物传记、重要组织机构简介以及学科发展动向等。
本书阅读总量约100000词,总生词 量约1000。���课时教师应注

UNIT ONE
Reading and Comprehension
Electrical Engineering: An Overview
Reading and Practice
The Electronic Age
Reading and Translation
Electricity
UNIT TWO
Reading and Comprehension
New Device Concepts: Where Do They Fit In?
Reading and Practice
The Power Diode
Reading and Translation
Digital Logic
UNIT THREE
Reading and Comprehension
Power and Energy
Reading and Practice
Sources of Energy
Reading and Translation
Power System Voltage
UNIX FOUR
Reading and Comprehension
Power Electronics -- Keeping Pace with Society
Reading and Practice
Power Electronic Converters
Reading and Translation
Introduction to Power Electronics
UNIT FIVE
Reading and Comprehension
Computer Control (I)
Reading and Practice
Computer Control (II)
Reading and Translation
Plant-Wide Supervision and Control
UNIT SIX
Reading and Comprehension
Equipment Used at Substations
Reading and Practice
Power Transmission and Distribution
Reading and Translation
Potential Power Sources
UNIT SEVEN
Reading and Comprehension
How Powerful Can Microchips Be?
Reading and Practice
How Small Can an Electrical Circuit Be?
Reading and Translation
Where Will Nanotechnology Take Us?
UNIT EIGHT
Reading and Comprehension
A Significant Shift to Solid-State Digital Techniques
Reading and Practice
The Classification of Control Techniques
Reading and Translation
Control Systems Engineering
UNIT NINE
Reading and Comprehension
Definition of Intelligence
Reading and Practice
Intelligent Control Perspective (I)
Reading and Translation
Intelligent Control Perspective (II)
UNIT TEN
Reading and Comprehension
AC-DC Converters
Reading and Practice
The Inverters
Reading and Translation
Choppers
UNIT ELEVEN
Reading and Comprehension
The CAPM/CAE Interface Within the CIM System Approaches in Medi-um-Sized Companies
Reading and Practice
Modern Manufacturing Systems
Reading and Translation
The Future: Information-Based Manufacturing
UNIT TWELVE
Reading and Comprehension
Overview of Fiber Sensor Developments
Reading and Practice
Advantages of Fiber Optic Temperature Measurement
Reading and Translation
Sensors and Instrumentation
UNIT THIRTEEN
Reading and Comprehension
Measurement Systems
Reading and Practice
Instruments
Reading and Translation
The Nature of Data
UNIT FOURTEEN
Reading and Comprehension
Signals, Systems, and Signal Processing
Reading and Practice
Digital Signal Processing System
Reading and Translation
Speech Coding
UNIT FIFTEEN
Reading and Comprehension
Historical Development of Communication (I)
Reading and Practice
Historical Development of Communication (II)
Reading and Translation
Data Communications
UNIT SIXTEEN
Reading and Comprehension
Bermuda Triangle: Myth or Reality? (I)
Reading and Practice
Bermuda Triangle: Myth or Reality? (II)
Reading and Translation
Rover Finds Evidence of Water
UNIT SEVENTEEN
Reading and Comprehension
Communication Practices Unique to the Gulf War (I)
Reading and Practice
Communication Practices Unique to the Gulf War (II)
Reading and Translation
Electro-Optics Technology
UNIT EIGHTEEN
Reading and Comprehension
Robotics
Reading and Practice
Robot
Reading and Translation
Advanced Robotic Technology
UNIT NINETEEN
Reading and Comprehension
A Brief History of the Electronic Car
Reading and Practice
The Car of Today
Reading and Translation
If We Can Send a Man to the Moon, Why Can't We Make a Decent Electric Car?
UNIT TWENTY
Reading and Comprehension
Michael Faraday and the Classical Field Theory
Reading and Practice
James Clerk Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field
Reading and Translation
Heike Kamerlingh Onnes and Superconductivity
GLOSSARY