Customer Reviews

Dictionary of Engineering (Second Edition)

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I purchased this book for specific use on the PE Exam (an engineering dictionary is recommended) and was dismayed that NONE of the terms I looked up during the 8-hour test was in this book. The book is heavy into electronic/electrical terms and probably covers the mechanical arena as well, but for civil engineering terms, environmental processes, anything to do with hydrology or water resources, this book is a loser. I do not recommend it unless you are taking the electrical or mechanical PE exam, or just wish to have a general reference handy in your office.

Not very helpful. Way too generic and focused on mechanical/electrical engineering. Being a civil engineer I don't find it very useful.

I found the McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Engineering to be a valuable resource when taking the Chemical Engineering PE Exam (Principles & Practice of Engineering). Having this resource with me on Exam Day enabled me to bag several of the 80 questions that I probably would have missed otherwise.

The publication lists a lot of acromyms, many of which don't appear as such in the index of Perry's Handbook, or in the indices of any of my textbooks.

Even if you decide it's not much good for anything else, it's still worth the purchase price just to have it with you on Test Day.

Other web sites may praise this reference as a must for the PE exam, but I did not find any words in this book that would have helped me on the exam. ...

This book is terrible for civil engineering terms. I, too, bought this book to use on the PE exam and couldn't find a single term I needed in it. And over the past 5 years it has been on my shelf as reference guide, I still have yet to find a term defined in it for civil engineering. Really disappointing since I have some great textbooks published by McGraw-Hill on Water Resources and Environmental Engineering.

I purchased this dictionary to take the PE Civil Test. It is the worst reference I have ever purchased. None of the terms I was looking for were in it. It may be good for other diciplines, but do not buy it for the Civil part of the Professional Engineer test!

I purchased this book so I could use it on the Professional Engineering exam. This book did not provide the relevant definitions I was hoping it would have. I would reccomend looking for a different book.

This dictionary contains many common terms, but if you are an engineer and are looking for a word you don't already know, you will not find it here. I bought this book to take with me for the PE exam, there were a few words on the exam that I was not familiar with, none of them were in this dictionary.

The dictionary appears good enough for others, but not for Civil Engineers. The first four things I looked up weren't even listed ("plug flow," "wastewater," "footer," and "load bearing wall"). The definition for "effluent" is pretty poor as far as I'm concerned.

This will go up on the shelf, but I'll be surprised if gets used much. Glad it was less than $15!

For Civil Engineers it is 0 stars. I gave it 2 stars because other engineering fields may still find it useful.

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