For junior/senior-level courses in Systems Analysis or Systems Analysis and Economics as applied to civil engineering.Broad and comprehensive in coverage -- and student-friendly in approach -- this text focuses on the most modern skills available for the design, operation and evaluation of civil and environmental engineering systems -- optimization/systems modeling and engineering economics. Exceptionally practical, it features several chapters that present new techniques and methodologies in the context of real-life problem situations.
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Broad and comprehensive in coverage -- and student-friendly in approach -- this text focuses on the most modern skills available for the design, operation and evaluation of civil and environmental engineering systems -- optimization/systems modeling and engineering economics. Exceptionally practical, it features several chapters that present new techniques and methodologies in the context of real-life problem situations.
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Exceptionally practical, it features several chapters that present new techniques and methodologies in the context of real-life problem situations. Broad and comprehensive in coverage — and reader-friendly in approach, this book focuses on the most modern skills available for the design, operation and evaluation of civil and environmental engineering systems, optimization/systems modeling and engineering economics. Describes how and why linear programming works. Also, provides a solid treatment of multiple objective programming. Practicing Civil and Environmental Engineers.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
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Disappointment,
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This review is from: Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering (Hardcover)
This book is required for several courses in the civil engineering major at Ohio State University. I am a current student and had to "use" this book for one of my classes last quarter. The focus is on the economics of engineering projects, specifically waste water treatment plants/systems. The book explains nothing in very brief sections, yet asks homework questions about topics neither brought up nor explained in any depth/example. I feel as though no serious time or thought went into writing this book and I am extremely disappointed that this book was chosen to be used (possibly because one of the authors is a current and longtime faculty member???). Avoid if you can.
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Too much text, not enough example,
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This review is from: Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
The subjects in this book are extremely broad and have a wide range of applications for systems engineering. So, I understand why the text was broad (they don't want to teach one method as if that's the only way of finding the answer), but that makes it so much more difficult to come up with AN answer. Luckily, most topics in this book aren't really all that complicated. But I remember some instances of staring at a table for 10 minutes trying to find out the pattern that was there while re-reading through the unnecessarily wordy text.
Not a fun book at all. I can't remember the name of the book at the moment, but I know that most of what I learned from systems engineering from another text with more detailed examples and an Excel-based approach for teaching solutions (even though that is not the ONLY answer).
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I've seen better,
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This review is from: Civil and Environmental Systems Engineering (Hardcover)
This was the text book I used my senior year in college for an wastewater engineering class. The reading material does not explain the subject and the example problems included in the chapters are not useful. The questions at the end of the chapters are excellent test material but can not be solved by understanding the material within the chapter.
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