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This richly illustrated text reflects the experiences and philosophy of the author as is presented in his introductory course, Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, currently being taught at Iowa State University.Dr. Wickert introduces students to the vocabulary, skills, applications, and excitement of the mechanical engineering profession. The text balances problem solving skills, communications skills, design engineering analysis, real world applications and practical technology. ... Read more

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helpful for beginners
i think its quite helpful for those who want to understand mech engineering. it tells you what can be applied and how its applied. ... Read more

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Basic Reliability is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to work in Reliability Engineering or has a project that has to be completed with the principles of Reliability.Author Nicholas Summerville brings over 15 years of Reliability, Quality, and Safety Engineering to light in this easy to understand book. In clear and easy to understand language, Summerville points out the key principles of Reliability Engineering and how one can easily understand and complete Reliability Projects.He even has included a glossary at the end to help you understand those tough engineering terms. Basic Reliability covers a diverse field of topics, including:Introduction to ReliabilityLife-Cycle ModelingFailure Modes and Failure RatesReliability ToolsTerminologyMaintainabilityApplying Reliability vs. costBasic Reliability is a useful resource for those wanting to use Reliability Tools as well as perform Reliability life cycle analyses. Reliability from the beginning from the product design stage is much better than trying to add reliability to the product once it is out in the field. ... Read more

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Excellent technical Reference
The book was a very informative and objective reference ,that elaborates the basic concept of reliability Engineering in a very apprehensive way.

Forget it
An incredibly elementary (vanity press?) review of the subject with an incredible number of errors, technical and grammatical. Only redeeming value is the low cost.

Short review of Reliability basics
I used this as a quick review and reminder of Reliability basics to prepare for more detailed study. Gets you quickly up to speed on forgotten information and acronyms.

Not useful
Not suitable as an introduction. Even for an introduction it's too simple. It contains about 100 pages but could havebeen printed on 50 pages. Layout is unprofessional and images do not add information. Some images are in very bad quality too.

Review of Basic Reliability
This book is full of typographical errors spelling errors, grammatical errors, and omissions (for example, the book states:see formula for the three parameter Weibull distribution and then jumps to discussion of the formula without telling you what it is).The graphics are also poor.Fortunately, the cost is low.I would recommend any new reader have another Reliability text to which to refer when reading this one in order to determine whether equations are correct or not (for example, on page 47 the book states that R(t)= e to the lambda (t) when in fact R(t) = e to the minus lambda (t).And the word "lambda" is misspelled as "lamda".). ... Read more

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Ideal for college students or anyone ready to go back to school, this series explores specific areas ofinterest and helps job seekers determine which job in that field suits them.

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A junior-senior level text and reference for use by materials engineers and mechanical engineers in courses entitled advanced physical metallurgy. ... Read more

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The Perfect Reference
I am a plant metallurgist for a company and I constantly use this book to look at properties for various materials.The book is relatively small (unlike ASM books) and contains loads of hard to find information.

More useful data than a dozen handbooks
Smith's book is excellent for two reasons:

1) His explainations of the properties, structure and applicaiton of various alloys is simple and to the point.(Many of them are somewhat out of date, but so is every other textbook in the world.)Excellent for metallurgists.

2) This book is so loaded with tables, you may never have to look any mechanical property data up in the library again.Excellent for mechanical engineers.

Although expensive, this book will replace a dozen others on your desk.

Highly recommended
This book is written from the prospective of a metallurgist.As such, it contains a very good discussion on the physical structure of various engineering materials, heat treatments, and alloy effects.However, italso contains lots of material data useful for engineering.

This is anexcellent book for those interested in more than stress-strain curves andyield stresses of engineering materials. ... Read more

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This book gives freshman engineering students a solid foundation for all their future coursework. It provides an overview to the engineering profession and of the skills they will need to develop, as well as an introduction to fundamental engineering topics such as thermodynamics, rate processes, and Newton's laws. An important aspect of the book's approach is the method of Engineering Accounting, which casts the basic conservation laws (e.g., of energy or mass) as simple "accounting" procedures. This is a unifying concept that facilitates problem-solving across all engineering disciplines. ... Read more

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Porter Books
The item I received was in excellent condition. Surprised to get something of this quality. ... Read more

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Students will quickly understand the popularity of this helpful sourcebook--the first edition sold 46,000 copies! The chief emphasis is on solving realistic problems, hundreds of which are included with detailed solutions. This popular study guide concisely yet clearly covers all the areas taught in two-semester survey courses and serves as an ideal review for electrical engineers and others looking for high ratings on the Professional Engineer's Examination. ... Read more

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Not Helpful
So I was having a lot of problems with my Electrical Circuits class, and desperately needed help... I saw this book, said it contained all the basics, easy to understand, blah blah blah...

Unfortunately it was just like my textbook... so it didn't have a positive nor negative effect on me... it acts like sparknotes... simply putall of the equations in a smaller book...

So if you're trying to have something condensed, get it... if you're trying to understand, seek help at the school because there are no books currently available to guide you step by step

Poor execution of a good idea
The idea was to have the essentials of AC/DC circuit analysis, linear circuits, electronic circuits, digital logic circuit design, electromechanical machines, and control theory in one handy outline. The problem is, any one of these subjects is way too complex and deep as it is presented in most universities for the book to be helpful for undergraduate electrical engineering students. Also, on the whole, this material is far from basic. The material on electromechanical machines and control theory is usually taught in junior or senior undergraduate courses.Thus, this book would be most helpful to a professional or someone returning to graduate school for a master's degree in electrical engineering who needs some review on material that they have previously mastered but possibly forgotten. Unfortunately, as the other reviewer pointed out, this book is chock full of errors, thus rendering the book pretty much useless in the problem solving department. If a revised second edition of this book ever comes out with corrections to all of the current errors, I would recommend it to the target audience I have already mentioned, but definitely not to undergraduate engineers who are seeing this material for the first time.

Needs proofread, BADLY!
I'm presently using this as a textbook in an into-level EE class. The book is a great concept - give a book of problems and enough information on the theory to solve them, including some step-by-step examples. And, sometimes, it works well. What kills it are the repeated glaring errors in the answers it gives for the questions - so far, I'd venture to say that, after the first couple chapters, more then 10% of the answers are wrong, be it from swapping a sign someplace or an outright mistake in understanding on the part of the person who solved the problem. This makes the book uterly and totally unacceptable - it has as much potential to damage someone's knowledge of electronics as to teach the person. ... Read more

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Object-Oriented Software Engineering is written for both the traditional one-semester and the newer two-semester software engineering curriculum. Part I covers the underlying software engineering theory, while Part II presents the more practical life cycle, workflow by workflow.

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Solid OO SE Text, but painful at times
Overall this text is excellent, however it isn't getting an excellent rating for one reason. The case study is so boring you stop reading the chapters at about analysis phase (huge chapter where you are likely to fall asleep and not remember the first page even). If I'm not getting paid to deal with the mind numbing real-estate whatever of whoever, I'm not going to. Get an interesting and fun case study to use, and this is five star stuff. ... Read more

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Winner in its first edition of the Best New Undergraduate Textbook by the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division of the American Association of Publishers (AAP), Kosky, et al is the first text offering an introduction to the major engineering fields, and the engineering design process, with an interdisciplinary case study approach. It introduces the fundamental physical, chemical and material bases for all engineering work and presents the engineering design process using examples and hands-on projects.

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* New homework and suggested projects increase the hands-on emphasis of the book.
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Pocket Book of Electrical Engineering Formulas provides key formulas used in practically all areas of electrical engineering and applied mathematics. This handy, pocket-sized guide has been organized by topic field to make finding information quick and easy. The book features an extensive index and is an excellent quick reference for electrical engineers, educators, and students. ... Read more

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Great tool!
I've been using this book for a couple months now. Both at work and in school and it has always come in handy when trying to look up those strange math identities or equations that I used forever ago. ... Read more

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The text is written for both Civil and Environmental Engineering students enrolled in Wastewater Engineering courses, and for Chemical Engineering students enrolled in Unit Processes or Transport Phenomena courses.It is oriented toward engineering design based on fundamentals.The presentation allows the instructor to select chapters or parts of chapters in any sequence desired. ... Read more

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Lacks Explanations for Many Problems, Lots of Typoes and Incorrect Information
This is possibly one of the worst texts I have ever used. Many of the example problems contain typos or diagrams that do not match the given problem. Numbers are often pulled out of thin air without explanation. Many of the "answers" in the back of the text are incorrect. Some chapter problems cover material not covered in the chapters. Additionally, the solutions provided by the publisher are often incorrect. This textbook needs a significant overhaul before it can be considered appropriate for use in undergraduate or graduate programs!!

Great Condition FAST delivery
Great project needed the book for a project and ordered thursday afternoon and received on friday (with a little extra fee for shipping of course)

Excellent book
This book is a must for those who want to get involved in water treatment.

Unit Operations and Processes in Environmental Engineering
Good and well organized book for a graduate class in environmental/sanitary engineering.Unlike the traditionally used book, it is organized for easy reference and study.It includes most of the unitprocesses to consider in the desing of wastewater and water treatmentplants.I wish it would expand a litte more in the water part. Thewastewater is covered very well. It is a good book to keep as a reference.Answer to key problems are provided for easiness of verification ofprocess. Couple of formulas are outdated in the air transfer chapter, notmajor problem. ... Read more

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Available for the first time... the best-known authority on Value Engineering in the Construction Industry shares his proven methods for:
* Making the Case for VE -- the Management Briefing
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These are tools for immediate application -- by engineers, architects, facility managers, owners and contractors.

Unique Features of This Book:
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Customer Reviews (4)

Book falling apart
The way this book was put together shows how poor the quality of this book is. Three days after I bought it, the book pages were coming out like if there was no glue to keep them together. 50 bucks wasted!

Good Practical Information for the Value Engineering Test
This book is full of practical applications of value engineering, including a number of case studies.I found the book very valuable in preparing me for the Value Methodology Practionier (VMP) test that is a part of becoming certified through S.A.V.E. (Society for the Advancement of Value Engineer). Their are other requirements to becoming certified by S.A.V.E. but this book covered a lot of the practical applications necessary.The book also goes through the detailed steps in the value enginnering methodology which is very helpful in understanding how it can be used in everyday applications.

To practical, a lot of nonsens
I purchased it since I would like to understand the background of the topic in-depth. I was rather disappointed about the academic level of the book. Too American, which in my view is, a lot of practical paper-filling cases but lack of real theory.

Not really interesting therefore for my knowledge building

A Great Textbook & Study Aid For Using Value Engineering
The case studies were good examples of using Value Engineering. ... Read more

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This invaluable handbook provides engineers and technicians with more than 5,000 calculations for solving day-to-day problems in all ten major engineering fields. The new Fourth Edition features numerous new areas from new design codes in civil engineering to miniaturization, new approaches to HVAC design, composite usage in engineering design, and laptop computer office and field calculations. "The Standard Handbook of Engineering Calculations" complies with new environmental requirements in engineering. ... Read more

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Excellent Step-By-Step Calculations for the Mundane
This is a necessary text for all engineers. Such textbooks are highly useful in establishing standards for mundane calculations performed in many branches of engineering. I just recently replaced my first edition of this book with the newest so that I would have access to the new enviromental engineer calculations added.

The book is now divided into civil, mechanical, architectural, and chemical engineering. If you can't find what you need, the safest bet is to check out the mechanical section next. In my opinion, the mechanical section is far too large and it is time to abandon the division of this book by degrees. I would divide it up by task; this would require simplifying the table of contents and an expansion of the index but then who really uses a TOC with a handbook?

Why do I use the word mundane? You won't find complicated calculation procedures here, nor will you find a lot of selection criteria information. What I mean is a table ranking technology. A good example of this is the series of books by Coulson and Richardson on chemical engineering. In that series, under drying, for example, all the technology is ranked according to product dryness, particle sizes, etc.. None of this is presented here. What makes this book useful is that is presents a procedure understandable to junior engineers and clients for solving a particular problem such as calculating a slab thickness or the size of a ventilation duct.

This book is a must-have if you are a consultant, contractor, or just want an understanding of a basic engineering calculation.

If this review was helpful, please add your vote.

A Must Have Tool for any Student or Practitioner of any field of Engineering

An essential reference and work tool for any engineer, student or technician, this handbook contains more than 5000 calculation procedures that will show, anybody and anyone working with engineering applications, quick and easy calculations formulas and procedures to solve most engineering problems encountered in the industries and in class.

Using a "cookbook" format, this book presents detailed "recipes" that describe the problem to be solved; step-by-step procedures to be followed; a worked out example of the typical problem; and (in most cases) presents cross-referenced related calculations.

Truly a most have. I am an Electronics Engineer, but I work as an Instrumentation, Automation and Process Safety and Control Engineer for the Process Industries. As a result I have been involved with Chemical and Mechanical Engineering issues in a day to day basic. This handy reference has proven most useful and time saving when in need of an specific formula, or shortcut.

David R. Debo, P.E.
To: Lost in Air

I respectfully submit, that you need to appreciate Mr. Hicks' position.He has provided a conservative approach that will work in almost every situation.The empirical approach that you advocate may well work in most situations but I'll bet there is little margin built in forcontingencies.True, your solution may cost less, which is important.Butwill the low-margin, low cost solution still work 1 or 2 years from now orwill the pipe size be too small to allow for degradation/changes?Customerrepeat business must be a consideration, too.

I'm not trying to beconfrontational, and I understand what you're saying.But you have toappreciate the position that Mr. Hicks must take in such a handbook, and hetakes the only logical one, which is to be on the conservative side. People doing more than a couple of these calculations in a year in factshould consult more in-depth material, as you did.

Regards,

David R.Debo, P.E.

Mr. Hicks' approach to sizing pipe for compressed air
Mr. Hicks has done a wonderful job in compling equations, however, he has missed the practical applications in compressed air and vacuum systems.I initially used his theoritcal position on calculating pressure drop in pipe for compressed air.His position seems reasonable and logical until you compare the results with practical applications.Ingresoll-Rand, the air compressor manufacturer, published tables of pressure drop verses pipe sizes, delivery pressures and ACFM.Futher ASPE has published a data book which leads the engineer into an empirical equation for calculating pressure loss in compressed air piping.The results with both Ingresoll-Rand and ASPE agree.Using Mr. Hicks' therotical approach drives the pipe size much larger than needed and therefore the cost of the project.My suggestion is that Mr. Hicks contact I-R and ASPE to incorporate their empirical approach to sizing pipe for compressed air and vacuum systems. ... Read more

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An easy-to-use, comprehensive guide to systems engineering methods.

Systems engineering (SE), or the engineering of large-scale systems, is key to achieving reliable, efficient, cost-effective products and services in diverse fields, including communication and network systems, software engineering, information systems, manufacturing, command and control, and defense systems acquisition and procurement. This book offers a unique introduction to the world of systems engineering, focusing on analysis and problem-solving techniques that can be applied throughout the life cycle of product systems and service systems. While the authors provide a framework for the functional levels involved in systems engineering processes and system management, the bulk of the discussion is devoted to the practical application of formulation, analysis, and interpretation methods.

Through the use of real-world examples and useful graphs, readers will learn to:

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• Develop an appreciation for the engineering and troubleshooting of large systems

Customer Reviews (2)

sage is the gold standard for SE
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Andy Sage is the gold standard for SE.
As a fellow of INCOSE he clearly knows SE.

His classes are always informative and up to date.
He is currently working on the cutting edge of Systems Architecture.We can only hope that his notes, which are locked behind GMUs firewall and webct,will be turned into a book.

He edited the Handbook of SE as well as editing the incose journal.If he says it, you can take it to the bank.

Unfortunately this book is 6 years old now and Armstrong is not in Sage's league, but Andy can turn anyone's drafts into good material. So while good, the weakness is that this book does not reflect the changing view and emphasis of SE.

This is not to fault Professor Sage, but merely reflects the fact that even incose cannot agree on what SE is, and that the govt which drives most of SE efforts keeps changing their emphasis.incose even keeps rewriting their handbook as the internal power struggles bring to power different groups with different views of what SE is.

The dirty truth is that there are NO good SE books.There are a lot of books on SE that have some good stuff in them but none does the job right and/or is up to date enough.

Should you read this book.Probably yes.Along with several others, and then extract your own summary of what is pertinent as most of them have way too much filler and wander off into detailed areas of interest only to the authors.

There are a lot of handbooks and reference materials on the web, mostly from govt sites.Some has some excellent content, many are grossly out of date or totally spurious.Especially the OF material from professors at universities who have not kept up to date and still promulgate their 40 year old ideas.Put all together there is a lot fo good info on SE somewhere out there.We can only hope that someone of Sage's ability will finally put it all together.Dr. Sage is probably getting too old to address this and also his current efforts on systems Architecture.Jim Long has promised a good intro book and he is one person that could pull it off well.But he seems to always have a higher priority alligator nipping at him.

If the IEEE were to get serious about systems as the keystone to making software work right then they might be able to sponsor a good reference book.That will likely be some years in the future.

KISS
Quiz time:
You have 60 seconds to determine what the following sentence means:

"Systems engineering processes should support operational product functionality, revisability, and transitioning, both at the initial time of operational implementation and later at the time that a system is phased out of service or retired, or reengineered for continued productivity and use."

Times up.If you took more than 60 seconds in my shop, you're fired.Halfway through this sentence I would have realized that my time would have been wasted, and I would have moved on.NO ONE in the engineering world should be caught writing such unintelligable gobbledegook. This sentence nailed it for me - I WON'T be pursuing a Masters in "Engineering Management" (largely consisting of 'systems engineering')- my application to ODU is in the trash...

Now, to be fair, there is value in understanding the necessity of managing methods and tools for large scale systems development, but not at the expense of the English language and good old fashioned simplicity.I would have said:

"From conception to obsolescence, your tools for a product's management had better work and/or improve, or else, .


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Pneumatic conveying systems offer enormous advantages: flexibility in plant layout, automatic operation, easy control and monitoring, and the ability to handle diverse materials, especially dangerous, toxic, or explosive materials. The Handbook of Pneumatic Conveying Engineering provides the most complete, comprehensive reference on all types and sizes of systems, considering their selection, design, maintenance, and optimization. It offers practical guidelines, diagrams, and procedures to assist with plant maintenance, operation, and control.

With well over fifty years of combined experience in the field, the authors promote practical, valuable approaches to test, evaluate, and correct both old and newly constructed systems. They include abundant checklists and approaches for preventing component wear, material degradation, and operating dilemmas and suggest lists of alternate materials and components to use if erosion does occur. Comparing various conveying system types, components, and flow mechanisms, the book explains the function of material flow, recommends conveying air velocity for different types of materials, and examines the conveying characteristics of a broad array of materials with emphasis on their impact on system performance.

Brimming with invaluable checklists, models, guidelines, diagrams, and illustrations, the Handbook of Pneumatic Conveying Engineering is simply the most authoritative guide to pneumatic conveying available and a critical tool for your everyday work. ... Read more

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This invaluable reference teaches effective and practical techniques to improve the overall performance and outcome of design projects in various industries—highlighting the application of value methodology to streamline current day operations, strategic planning in company or business segments, and everyday business decisions in the private sector. ... Read more

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It's not worth the money
I own this book. While it does contain some valuable information on the Value Methodology process, it not to be considered more than a companion to the author's course on Value Enigeering. Thus, I have not found it to be a good nor readable resource.

Much of the text (326 pages) is devoted to overhead presentation type information, i.e., heading and bulletized list likely originating from the author's own presentations developed to teach his class. Have you ever received an overhead presentation without the author's notes? It is very difficult to understand the points being made. Many pages contain examples of forms that a VE team leader might want to use. They amount to little more than a page full of empty boxes. In the latter portion of the book, many pages contain very little information and lots of empty wordless space. This text is not a book, it is a compilation of stuff gathered over the years that the author has taught his VE course. ... Read more

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An In-Depth Guide to Water and Wastewater Engineering

This authoritative volume offers comprehensive coverage of the design and construction of municipal water and wastewater facilities. The book addresses water treatment in detail, following the flow of water through the unit processes and coagulation, flocculation, softening, sedimentation, filtration, disinfection, and residuals management. Each stage of wastewater treatment--preliminary, secondary, and tertiary--is examined along with residuals management.

Water and Wastewater Engineering contains more than 100 example problems, 500 end-of-chapter problems, and 300 illustrations. Safety issues and operation and maintenance procedures are also discussed in this definitive resource.

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Plasma engineering is a rapidly expanding area of science and technology with increasing numbers of engineers using plasma processes over a wide range of applications. An essential tool for understanding this dynamic field, Plasma Physics and Engineering provides a clear fundamental introduction to virtually all aspects of modern plasma science and technology.These areas include: plasma chemistry and engineering, combustion, chemical physics, lasers, electronics and new methods of material treatment, fuel conversion and environmental control.

The book contains an extensive database on plasma kinetics and thermodynamics, many helpful numerical formulas for practical calculations, and a large number of problems and concept questions.As a foundational text, Plasma Physics and Engineeringis ideal for senior undergraduate and graduate students in mechanical, chemical and electrical engineering, as well as for scientists and engineers studying phenomena taking place in cold and thermal discharge plasmas, in combustion, and laser systems. ... Read more

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excellent text, 5 stars if it wasn't for the typos
This is a great reference, with wonderful physical insight into plasma kinetics mechanisms. Unfortunately the astonishing work of the authors is undermined by minor typos from the editor, which may throw off beginners- equations where charges or species don't add up, and the like. I could not find an errata yet, therefore only the 4 stars; but sincere congrats to the authors for such indepth and insightful work.

book for plasma engineers
Thisbookfocusesonthemost important and fundamental issues of
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Inthisbook,author gave a thorough consideration of the theory of
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Itisextremelyuseful as reference and textbook. I highly recommend itto anyone interested in plasma. ... Read more

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Definitive textbook on the mechanics and strength of materials for students of engineering principles throughout their degree course. Paper. ... Read more

Customer Reviews (3)

Not THAT bad, but you can do better
Unfortunately, I have to agree with other two reviews posted above. Every now and again I do refer to the book, but it's certainly not my favourite. I actually checked to see if there's a new edition out because I thought it would contain a lot of corrections. It does cover many topics, that's why I find it useful, but tread carefully.

Terrible Textbook
I can't believe how badly written this textbook is.I could find countless mistakes riddled throughout the pages including: missing units, wrong units, spelling mistakes, wrong answers given.In addition, the examples do not clearly show how to go about a certain problem, nor do they explain what equations are used.This textbook should have never been published.

Sucks !
This is, without a doubt, the WORST text-book I have ever had in school ever! The examples are poorly written and all the numbers just put in the formulas right away so half of my time goes into finding out what formulasare being used, and the other half goes into reading the bad text. Theproblems are many with wrong given answers and well.. that is just typicalbecause the book left me nothing. I would strongly recommend other booksfor subjects this book teaches. ... Read more

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For Resilience Engineering, 'failure' is the result of the adaptations necessary to cope with the complexity of the real world, rather than a breakdown or malfunction. The performance of individuals and organizations must continually adjust to current conditions and, because resources and time are finite, such adjustments are always approximate. This definitive new book explores this groundbreaking new development in safety and risk management, where 'success' is based on the ability of organizations, groups and individuals to anticipate the changing shape of risk before failures and harm occur. Featuring contributions from many of the worlds leading figures in the fields of human factors and safety, "Resilience Engineering" provides provocative insights into system safety as an aggregate of its various components, subsystems, software, organizations, human behaviours, and the way in which they interact. The book provides an introduction to Resilience Engineering of systems, covering both the theoretical and practical aspects.It is written for those responsible for system safety on managerial or operational levels alike, including safety managers and engineers (line and maintenance), security experts, risk and safety consultants, human factors professionals and accident investigators. ... Read more

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The latest in safety management
Resilience engineering is the new field for anyone interested in safety management and has found that existing methods have run out of steam. It provides ways to manage safety proactively (without having to wait for bad events to analyze and then fix) and broadens the view of what should be looked for in root cause investigations. It applies to all sorts of technologies, not just high hazard ones like nuclear power. ... Read more

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For senior-level undergraduate and first and second year graduate systems engineering and related courses. Systems Engineering and Analysis, 5/e, provides a total life-cycle approach to systems and their analysis.

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Great Overview
The book does a great job of giving the reader an overall sense of what goes into systems engineering.Although not detailed to the nth degree, it has enough info so that the concept is understood and when possible, linked with examples.A little wordy at times, but otherwise exceptional.

Great Resource
Added to library for work to keep on top of SE work.Getting old and forgetful as I move into management.

mixed bag
we used this book for undergrad se classes i taught.
unfortunately there are not a lot of alternatives.
(we *also* used buede for another class and mandel for project management etc).

the authors know their stuff, unfortunately some of it got lost in translation. perhaps because a lot of the material got translated from govt publications.

this is more like a handbook than a textbook.for the handbook user just get sage's tome.for a textbook -- well this is least worst for an intro to SE.for supporting areas other books are better.

what is good is excellent.but what is bad is frustrating.
they tried to cover way too much in one book and got confused with SE and OR and management techniques and quality and a whole bunch of other stuff that is really tangential to SE.

and the materialgets covered at uneven levels of detail so it is not a good handbook nor a good textbook just a good pile of notes on a lot of se related stuff.

previous editions had many errors and did not come with any answers to the problems, many of which were confusing as stated.

the first part of the book really introduces SE.The rest of the book is for review by someone who has specialised in the areas they cover.

The book would be much better if they concentrated on SE and left the other stuff to other books.i have not checked with the publisher for current availability,but previously there was no instructors guide and no answers to the questions.that is a big drawback for classroom use.

this would be best for an experienced person who wanted to review SE or get an introduction to a specialised topic relating to SE.

the dsmc/dau se handbook is (was?) free on the internet from various govt sites and does a great job of introducing SE.you should look at that resource before buying this book.indeed, unless you are using it in a class you might just want to borrow this from a library instead of buying it.

High-level view
Very much the 30,000 foot view of systems engineering. I picked this book up because I saw it referred to all over the place, and assumed that it was reasonably definitive. Sadly, it is not. What the book does do is give the reader a reasonably good high-level overview of systems engineering in general, and of some of the techniques involved in estimating the "ilities" of a given system design. However, the level of detail on any one subject area is very light, and the bias of the book is very much toward DoD-style systems engineering. A good book for systems engineering managers. System designers should also seek out Wymore's "Model-Based Systems Engineering" for a thorough understanding of requirements and design.

Great Introduction to Systems Engineering
I took a course in school that used this book and I really enjoyed the book and what it taught me about systems engineering.The authors do a great job of walking the student through the systems engineering process, and ginving a general overview of the steps.The later chapters expand upon this overview to give the detail needed to actually carry out the process.The last part of the book expands upon the "-ilities" of systems engineering which are the authors partiucalr areas of interest.I think anyone interested in systems engineering should get this book, its a great resource.A few things I didn't like was the constant referencing of graphs and figures from previous chapters, it really inhibits my learing when I have to keep flipping back and forth to follow a train of thought.There are also a few chunks of the book that are very, very hard to follow the logical train of thought and require meticulious attention to the detail, and often require rereading.I'm hoping the authors with put out an updated and expanded edition soon, that compensates for these shortfalls. ... Read more