Foundations of Engineering by Mark T. Holtzapple and W. Dan Reece

Foundations of Engineering

Features

Cover Type: Hard Cover with 752 pages

Published by: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math

Edition: 2nd Edition July 12, 2002

Written in: English

ISBN 10 Number: 0072480823

ISBN 13 Number: 978-0072480825

Book Dimensions: 9.5 x 8.3 x 1.3 inches

Weighs: 3.2 pounds

Product Description
This book gives freshman engineering students a solid foundation for all their future coursework. It provides an overview to the engineering profession and of the skills they will need to develop, as well as an introduction to fundamental engineering topics such as thermodynamics, rate processes, and Newton's laws. An important aspect of the book's approach is the method of Engineering Accounting, which casts the basic conservation laws (e.g., of energy or mass) as simple "accounting" procedures. This is a unifying concept that facilitates problem-solving across all engineering disciplines.

Reader Reviews
Written for first year undergraduate engineering majors, this book presents material in a coherent, unified format, from mathematics to introductory thermodynamics to Newton's laws of motion. The novelty of this book seems to be in its "Engineering Accounting" approach. Essentially, it is a reformulation of the conservation laws of physics in something like an accounting viewpoint. Nothing wrong with it, certainly. But it eludes me as to whether this pedagogy offers anything new over a more standard treatment of the conservation laws. I understand that the authors probably wanted to offer something distinctive, to distinguish this text from other introductory engineering texts. But the novelty here seems to wear thin after a few chapters. Comment | | (Report this)

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