Customer Reviews

Excel for Engineers and Scientists

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I am a practicing licensed professional engineer that was looking for a book on Excel written for practicing engineers. This book's title is totally misleading. It implies that it is written for "engineers" and "scientists" not engineering and/or science students. In my opinion, this book was written for high school students.

Don't waste your money on this if you're looking for a practitioners reference book. I wouldn't recommend this book to another professional engineer even if it was free.

The book is also obsolete since it was written in 2003. Excel 2007 has many significant changes to the GUI (i.e., the "ribbon" interface).

It's not worth your time to even browse through. This book falls very short of what the title implies. I made the classic mistake of "judging a book by its cover". I wasted my money and time on it.

This is the first book that I have seen that actually tells you to put a equals sign in the cell in front of a formula. When I first started using Excel I could find nothing on the subject of how to get a formula to work, they all assumed it was known by the reader - one book MS office bible, MS step by step, etc. It is a great first text and more. I like It. It does not delve into VBA much but, look at the product description! If you want to be an expert on excel start here. To get to the next level Wiley&sons have another work 'EXCEL for scientists and engineers - numerical methods.;)Excel for Scientists and Engineers: Numerical Methods. Enjoy

I liked this book. I appreciated his approach to FFTs and DSP. I found a few new ideas on how to analyze my data. The CD had working spreadsheets that I found quite handy.

It is my great pleasure to comment on Van Bloch's textbook on EXCEL for engineers and scientists. His marvellous ability to communicate complicated ideas in simple terms shines through on every page. More than just useful, this book comes to market at a time when electronic spreadsheet analysis has become part and parcel of the day-to-day work of researchers in all areas of engineering and science. Simply put, spreadsheet and data manipulation skills are essential in today's world. Prof. Bloch does his reader's a great service by developing the concepts for use with EXCEL, one of the most widely used spreadsheets in the world. The CD-ROM will be especially helpful to students as they seek to master spreadsheet basics and more advanced techniques.

The CD was missing. Since the CD is referenced throughout the book, one sort of "feels left out" after a while.