Customer Reviews

Engineering Economy (McGraw-Hill Series in Industrial Engineering and Management)

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As someone who loves to learn, this is the most incomplete, illogically written textbook I've ever encountered. As a disclaimer, usually I have better things to do than review books online for complete strangers, but thankfully I can vent here, or I may have been compelled to use it to shatter my living room window, which wouldn't be good.

At best, it meanders back and forth between actual formulas and their complementary Excel formulas, which leaves the reader wondering why they should learn the real thing when Excel can do it for them anyway; but its Excel teachings follow the incomplete style of the book, so there's little chance of improving your Excel skills either. To be fair, on page 671 it lets you in on a brilliant secret: that you can obtain help from Excel by "left-clicking" on the help bar...but even fails to mention the F1 key...par for the course!

At worst, the questions at the end of each chapter (which affect ones GPA and entire future) vary just enough with the examples in the chapter, that it is impossible for the student to solve them without using outside means, like contacting the professor 24/7 which I may have to.

If you think I'm being unfair or have any bias, I'll put it to you this way: Suppose you had never driven a car before, and I wrote a book on how to open the door, turn the key, put it in drive, etc. and then gave you an exam on how to rebuild the engine.

I'm so disgusted with this book, I'd rather be spending this semester in North Korea, where I'd definitely learn more.

This book is awful, as an introduction into economics its hard to understand and there are no good examples for the problems. Also you must know the secrets of using the tables and formula's (its a secret because they really dont explain EXACTLY HOW to use this to your best advantage. This book is not worth the money or the paper that its printed on! Do your self a favor if you use this book--buy the Schaum's outline go with it, Schaum's does what this book could only hope to do ---> TEACH you the material!

I think there is probably a chance that this is the most poorly written textbook I've ever encountered.

I was going to hold off giving it a bad review until I got through the class, but at this rate I'm not even totally sure I will. I've just re-read the difference between nominal and effective interest for (no hyperbole) the 10th time, and I'm no closer to understanding it. Bad examples, useless derivations, poor explaining. I only wish I could give it a zero.

This book doesn't explain anything. It just shows a bunch of formulas and doesn't give any hint about when and how to use them one. One of the worst textbooks I've encountered in college (and I'm in my last semester). I wholeheartedly agree with all the negative feedback.

It's hard to avoid a book that's mandatory for a class, but if you have other options I suggest you steer away from this one. I've never seen a more poorly written text book in both my undergrad and grad level courses! This book is a complete disaster. The questions/problems at the end of the chapter assigned for homework do not have supporting examples to learn from. It is a complete guessing game at how to arrive at the correct answer. I had to buy this book for my class but do not plan on using it afterwards. It is completely worthless!

This book is not a good book at all. The book has hardly any examples to help you learn the material. It is full of problems at the end of each chapter, but it is hard to solve any of them due to the lack of worked out example problems. The book is full of proofs of the financial formulas, which is a waste of time in the real world. The book is hard to read and even harder to understand. The only good use of this book is toilet paper and it wouldn't do a very good job at that either.

Well I found this book to read like a text book, well I guess that is what I should expect. Good informaiton, not fun to read and a lot of work to get to the end, other than that a good value. I may just hold on to this one just in case I may have as economic dexision to make in my future.

Nothing exciting about this product. I received it in the mail like expected and am now using it. It is a textbook. . .whoopie

I bought this online because it was cheaper than my bookstore. It's just a textbook, I wouldn't have bought it if it hadn't been required for my class.

This textbook is for my engineering cost analysis course. It is a very difficult course and the book's examples are confusing. I don't know why they think a engineer needs to know some of this stuff. That is what accountant's are for.