MEMS and Microsystems: Design and Manufacture (Hardcover)

by Tai-Ran Hsu (Author)

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Product Description
Microsystems and MEMS technology represents one of the biggest breakthroughs in the area of mechanical and electronic technology to occur in recent years. This is the technology of extremely small and powerful devices – and systems built around such devices – which have mechanical and electrical components. MEMS technology is beginning to explode, with major application areas being telecommunications, biomedical technology, manufacturing and robotic systems, transportation and aerospace. Academics are desperate for texts to familiarize future engineers with this broad-ranging technology.

Hsu's MEMS & MICROSYSTEMS text provides an engineering design approach to MEMS and microsystems, appropriate for professionals and senior level students. This design approach is conveyed through good examples, cases, and applied problems. The book is appropriate for Mechanical and Aerospace engineers, since it carefully explains the electrical/electronic aspects of the subject. Electrical Engineering students will be provided strong coverage of the mechanical side of MEMS, something they may not receive from other courses in their curriculum.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 448 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 1 edition (November 9, 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0072393912
• ISBN-13: 978-0072393910
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,647,696 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Next time, edit the book before publishing!, October 30, 2002

By	Brian Esser "besser" (Colchester, VT United States) - See all my reviews

This book is here to really annoy students and teachers alike. The problems are vague and useless, the examples contain numerous math errors, and the author uses non-conventional notation and random greek letters. Typical problems refer the reader to figures and examples around the book, which combined are still missing half of the problem. The result? Spending half an hour to solve a single-equation problem, "guessing" half the values anyway. Some of the diagrams in the book were obviously scanned at a terrible resolution, rendering them unreadable (is it so hard to find a "legible" periodic table?)...

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Why isn't zero stars an option?, November 5, 2002

By A Customer

Clearly, this book slipped through the cracks in the scientific editor's desk, as it contains copious errors in not only math, but concepts also. The end of the chapter problems are ill-posed, as they often refer to 2-3 figures/examples within the chapter that require the student to make baseless assumptions in order to solve the problem.
Also, the low print quality and ever poorer figure quality make me wonder where my money went. Perhaps after a couple of revisions, a tight edit, and quality review this book will be worthy to be called a text.

1.0 out of 5 stars Packed with errors, March 5, 2008

By	Knut (Vestfold, Norway) - See all my reviews

We chose this book as textbook in an introductory course in Microsystems (bachelor level course). What a terrible mistake! The content of the book seemed to be exactly what we needed, but the book is full of errors, especially when trying to deal with basic science as physics and chemistry. We had to create a long list of correction of errors, in order not to fool our students. As it stands, the book is useless.