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Rules of Thumb for Mechanical Engineers

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I'd recommend this book for anyone ranging from students to the working class. Am currently a student and was very pleasantly surprised to find valuable nuggets of information inside the book. Covers thermodynamics, fluid, vibration, heat transfer and probably just about anything a mechanical engineer/engineering student wants to know about.

Although this book is interesting, I have been very disappointed by it.
The printing quality is very low, printed on crappy paper and only in black and white. it looks like it has been photocopied on a low quality photocopier. I would expect a lot better for a $140 textbook. Printing quality aside, the book, although well written has very little use for machine design and many other areas, often missing critical features. I understand that it is only meant as a quick guide, but it does not have nearly enough detail to solve practical problems.
It may have been a good book to have during uni as a quick low level learning tool, solving purely theoretical problems, but in real world situations it does not suffice.

Practical solutions for mechanical engineers should have been the title of this book. The book is full of fundamental information, principles, quick calculations methods, illustrations, and diagrams, that will save the industrial practitioner valuable time.

If you travel for work always take this handy reference with you. I believe this book will also be useful for the student of Mechanical Engineering.

I own this book, as well as Carl. Branan "Rules of Thumb for Chemical Engineers". If you work in the process industries, these two books will proof to be an invaluable aid to analyze and solve operational problems that affect process equipment performance.

A great and easy book to find out mechnical solutions and definitions for the daily work of an engineer