<p>If you had to name one engineering text book (could be a science/math book too) that you thought you enjoyed the most as an undergrad (because of style, content, examples, etc...) which would it be and why?</p>
<p>Great question! Sorry I can't answer, but I have to say that I hear lots of students complaining about how poorly some engineering text books are written. I wonder why that is?</p>
<p>I would imagine a lot of it has to do with them being written by engineers :)</p>
<p>Introduction to Flight, by Anderson (great into to Aerodynamics book)
A Brief Introduction to Circuit Analysis (electrical eng. book for dummies!)</p>
<p>Numerical methods for engineers, Chapra. Great layout and approach to the material. </p>
<p>Linear systems and signals, Lathi. Reads like a novel.</p>
<p>I teach out of that Chapra book! And I agree that it is good. My Area is Controls and I enjoy "The Art of Control Engineering". I never had it in a class but I got it after reading it a bit in a store. A great book to get a little knowledge about nearly everything in controls.</p>
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I teach out of that Chapra book! And I agree that it is good. My Area is Controls and I enjoy "The Art of Control Engineering". I never had it in a class but I got it after reading it a bit in a store. A great book to get a little knowledge about nearly everything in controls.
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<p>What do you think of the Nise book?</p>
<p>Not an undergrad book, but mine would have to be "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach" by Hennessy and Patterson. It's a wealth of info. Wouldn't have gotten my job without it :)</p>
<p>Nise is ok, I prefer Ogata as a introductory controls text for a class.</p>
<p>I 2nd the Chapra book for any Engineering Computational Methods course.</p>
<p>I liked Fluid Mechanics by Munson as well as Mechanic of Materials by Gere.</p>
<p>Hibbler isn't too bad in the Statics or Dynamics fields.</p>
<p>Yes, I really like Hibbler for Statics and Dynamics...I teach both classes from this text and I've used quite a few others.</p>
<p>Dieter - Mechanical Metallurgy</p>
<p>It has everything you need to know for my field.</p>
<p>Electronic Circuits by Alexander and Sadiku</p>
<p>Overall a very good textbook for circuit analysis. Lots of examples with good explainations. Maybe 1-3 chapters they used a method that was really confusing, but a class lecture clarified the confusion. My course used the 2nd edition, which did not go into diodes.... Maybe they added that in the newer editions.</p>
<p>Calculus by Salas wasn't too bad and it sure got a lot of use during my freshman year. ODE by Coddington is a good supplement text as well.</p>
<p>"Yes, I really like Hibbler for Statics and Dynamics...I teach both classes from this text and I've used quite a few others."</p>
<p>That is the book that we use in my statics and dynamics class. I think it is too simplified and my mind wonders off too much when I try reading it. I like the Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics books by Cengal. Calculus by Stewart I think is my favorite so far in terms of layout and presentation.</p>
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That is the book that we use in my statics and dynamics class. I think it is too simplified and my mind wonders off too much when I try reading it. I like the Thermodynamics and Fluid Mechanics books by Cengal. Calculus by Stewart I think is my favorite so far in terms of layout and presentation.
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<p>Though I'm not a ME, I did enjoy Cengel's "Thermodynamics: An Engineering Approach"</p>
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For my undergrad Computer Architecture class, we're using a book by the same authors, and that book too is very insightful!!</p>
<p>Microelectronics: an Integrated Approach, by Howe and Sodini, is one of favorite books.</p>
<p>The Stewart Calculus book is extremely good.</p>
<p>i hate engineering text books, they have more #'s and graphics than words</p>
<p>That's exactly why I like them</p>