Studying Engineering: A Road Map to a Rewarding Career

by Raymond B. Landis

Since Studying Engineering exploded onto the market in June, 1995, it has become the best selling "Introduction to Engineering" textbook of all time. Adopted by over 300 U.S. institutions, and reaching more than 40,000 students, the book has made major inroads into the "sink or swim" paradigm of engineering education. Armed with the book as a powerful tool for "student development", large numbers of engineering programs have implemented Introduction to Engineering courses having a primary purpose of improving the academic performance and retention rates of their students.

Genres: Engineering, Nonfiction, Textbooks, School

662 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 1995

Reviews

[Gauri · Rating 1 out of 5]

I had to read this entire textbook, cover to cover, for my engineering class. This is the most pointless, most useless book I have ever read in my entire life. It is worse than self-help books. It *is* a self-help book, kind of, for engineering students. The only thing is, the only kind of engineering student it would help is a kid who has been living under a damn rock for his or her whole life. It has the most pointless, most tedious, the most elaborate questions or problems to answer at the end of each chapter that my professor assigned. Dumbest class I'll probably ever take in my time as an undergraduate.

One word: STUPID.

[Aaron · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book was not for me. It's written for people who have little or no experience with college. If this were the only thing I disliked, I would not have given it a low rating. What's terrible about this book is that it is fluff, fluff, and more fluff. Page and page, this author talks about what will be discussed next and how to get ready for his next tip... which, more often than not, turns out to be the same crap you've heard a thousand times - whether on TV, in articles, in college, in high school, or in other places in the book. No big revelations here.

The only reason this book gets two stars instead of one is that it offers people an idea of what engineering is all about. However, in the Internet Era, this info can easily and instantly be found online for free.

[Nathan · Rating 1 out of 5]

It has some very basic information, few self help tips.
But really paid a good amount for a book I really will never use or need. It was a required book for a Engineering Ethics class. So I would not suggest this book unless you have a use for it, it's mostly information that is basic self- help and most people know.

[bloopi · Rating 3 out of 5]

entire beginning incredibly repetitive. but good content afterwards.

[Jakub · Rating 1 out of 5]

Extremely boring, a self-help book - very little things about an actual "engineering roadmap".

[Zoha Cochinwala · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was different from the books that I usually read. However, it was better than I thought it would be. It was very informational and it taught me a lot about engineering. Some parts of it were kind of boring, but overall it was pretty alright.

[Eric · Rating 5 out of 5]

GREAT anecdotes and references to motivational books/essays and awesome attitude for any starting engineer.

Anyone who wants to succed in anything should read the first chapter.

[Kelly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very good points, but so much information to remember, I don't know if it was all worth it.

[Douglas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read This for a course I am teaching. Gives a good introduction for students considering studying engineering