<p>Like it or not, we all have a stack of textbooks that got us through undergraduate/graduate school. Some were forced upon us through dubious professor publications while others are classics. If you are like me I have a few favorite textbooks, filled with highlighting and post-it notes, that I still reference to this day. </p>
<p>I think it'd be interesting and helpful if we could provide a list of our favorite/most lucid text books or the one great textbook that gives someone a thorough understanding of a field.</p>
<p>For me:</p>
<p>Anything Convection related (graduate school wise): Convective Heat Transfer by (Bejan)
Fluid Dynamics (UG but mostly graduate): Viscous Fluid Flow (White)
Thermodynamics (graduate): Thermodynamics (Callen)
Heat Transfer (graduate): Heat Transfer (Mills)
Production Engineering (Petroleum graduate): Petroleum Engineering Systems (Economides)</p>
<p>Statics (UG): Engineering Mechanics Statics (Bedford/Fowler)
Dynamics (UG): Engineering Mechanics Dynamics (Hibbler)
Thermodynamics (UG): Thermodynamics (Moran and Shapiro)
Numerical Methods (UG): Wikipedia to be honest but Numerical Methods (Chapra) works</p>
<p>Get off CC and go work on your PhD! {Are you a ChemE?} I love supplemental texts {when I can find them for cheap} I’ll keep one or two of those in mind. Thanks!</p>
<p>You might visit librarything.com. You can enter your collection of books to keep track of them and it will also find others that have the same book subsets. I’ve found it interesting to look at the collections of other people that have sets of books that are in my library.</p>
<p>I have half a mind to just have my paperbacks and newer ones re-bound in leather just to make myself look more important. Would that be pretentious?</p>
<p>I also own White, Mills and Moran & Shapiro.</p>
<p>For me:</p>
<p>UG Heat Transfer: Incropera and Dewitt
UG Fluids: Munson, Young &Okiishi
UG Compressible: Oosthuizen & Carscallen</p>
<p>G Inviscid Flow: Katz & Plotkin</p>
<p>I could say that Nayfeh is the best for Perturbation, but it is also the only book, so I don’t think that really counts.</p>
<p>hmm, the books that are fundamental in chemical engineering as an undergraduate for me was:</p>
<p>1.Transport Phenomena R. Byron Bird, Warren E. Stewart, Edwin N. Lightfoot
2.Introduction to Chemical Engineering Thermodynamics by Smith and Ness
3.Elements of Chemical Reaction Engineering by Fogler.
4. Bioseparations Science and Engineering
by Roger G. Harrison, Paul W. Todd, Scott Rudge, Demetri Petrides<br>
5. Bioprocess Engineering: Basic Concepts by Michael L. Shuler and Fikret Kargi
6. Applied Partial Differential Equations by Richard Haberman</p>
<p>Those pretty much are the core books for chemical engineers. There are also tons of book in biochemistry, process control, and chemistry that I rather not list…</p>
<p>The other great thing about binding your books with leather is that it means that somewhere, another steak has been made, so I can eat more steak.</p>
<p>This might be pretentious, and maybe not relevant for engineering, but my absolute favorite math textbook is Sternberg’s “Advanced Calculus.” Maybe I’m a math nerd, but it is so beautifully sophisticated. Got it for my eighteenth birthday :)</p>
<p>Really a great bridge between simple plug-and-chug calculus, and more complex maths.</p>
<p>*I am double-major in ChemE and Mathematics, btw. Math was a minor until recently, when the artistry of Analysis lured me in. ChemE is where I find myself being practical, math is where I can wax aesthetic, and complete p-sets that take me hours, and not notise that I’m doing homework.</p>