Engineering Fundamentals and Problem Solving (Hardcover)

by Arvid Eide (Author), Roland Jenison (Author), Larry Northup (Author), Steven Mickelson (Author)

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Product Description
The fifth edition of Engineering Fundamentals & Problem Solving is written to motivate engineering students during their first year.

A complete introduction to the engineering field, this text will help students develop the skills to solving open-ended problems in SI and customary units while presenting solutions in a logical manner. Eide introduces students to subject areas that are common to engineering disciplines that require the application of fundamental engineering concepts.

For those instructors who desire a shorter text to complement other application specific texts, McGraw-Hill offers cutomization through our Primis-Build a Book, or the BEST version of this text. Please see Eide's Introduction to Engineering Design and Problem Solving, 2nd edition, from the BEST series.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 480 pages
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math; 5 edition (January 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0073191582
• ISBN-13: 978-0073191584
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.3 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.9 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #281,473 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars This book is not worth the money., January 29, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Engineering Fundamentals and Problem Solving (Hardcover)

If you want to get ripped off, by this book. Homework is not even covered within the chapter it is from. I know from experience. However if you don't use homework for it then it is ok.

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not worth your time or your money ..., July 18, 2007

By	calvinnme "Texan refugee" (Fredericksburg, Va) - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

...Unfortunately, if you are an engineering student and forced to buy this as a textbook (the only reason to ever own it) this tome shall unjustly deprive you of both. The first eight chapters of the book wax philosophical on the various aspects of engineering. If you're in some kind of freshman engineering survey class, any engineering professor could lecture you on these general points and provide the same insight and then some. The second half of the book wanders all over the place - statistics, mechanics, electrical theory, etc. - information that will mean little until you have completed your freshman and sophomore engineering and physics classes, and then it will mean even less because everything is explained so generally and in such a shallow fashion. All I can say is that instructors who assign this paperweight as a textbook have forgotten how budget-conscious students need to be. The following is the table of contents for the fifth edition, published in 2007:
1 The Engineering Profession
2 Engineering Design - A Process
3 Engineering Solutions
4 Representation of Technical Information
5 Engineering Estimations and Approximations
6 Dimensions, Units, and Conversions
7 Preparation for Computer Solutions
8 Statistics
9 Mechanics
10 Material Balance
11 Electrical Theory
12 Energy
13 Engineering Economics
Appendix A Selected Topics from Algebra
Appendix B Trigonometry
Appendix C Graphics
Appendix D General
Appendix E Plane Surfaces

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars First-year books? This is a very good example of a bad one., August 30, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Engineering Fundamentals and Problem Solving (Hardcover)

There is absolutely no reason to buy this book unless required. Homework is covered hardly at all, and the 'reviews' are meaningless.