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	• Engineering with Mathcad: Using Mathcad to Create and Organize your Engineering Calculations Brent Maxfield Butterworth-Heinemann, 2006 - 512 pages average customer review:based on 6 reviews view larger image
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Engineering with Mathcad - An Excellent Resournce for New and Experienced Mathcad Users

Brent Maxfield's Engineering with Mathcad is a valuable contribution to the engineering community that may do much to help those in engineering and the sciences in general jumpstart their efforts to learn and apply Mathcad, or to help long-time users strengthen their skills. The book is accessible, engaging, and written from the perspective of one who has dealt the practical aspects of Mathcad for many years. It comes with a useful CD having a handbook and all the examples in the text, allowing the users to easily follow along and work with the material being discussed. The CD also can be used to install Mathcad 13 for PC or Mac with a 120-day academic license.

The book covers a broad scope of material effectively, and should provide useful new insights even for power users. However, the book is not intended to provide a comprehensive guide to the functions and plotting features of Mathcad. For example, there is no significant discussion of solving differential equations. Indeed, many of the engineering applications covered are relatively basic, with the emphasis being more on how to use Mathcad effectively rather than how to tackle complex engineering problems. Given the burgeoning scope of Mathcad's tool and the many powerful features it has that experienced users may have been missing, Maxfield's approach represents a reasonable editorial decision to cover Mathcad broadly rather than to teach engineering mathematics or dive into the complexities of any of the numerous areas of interest in engineering.

The book may be especially valuable for those who are relatively new at Mathcad or who, like myself, have Mathcad experience but may not have used it for some time and need a refresher. But a carefully selected swathe of sophisticated aspects of Mathcad are treated that may be helpful to longtime Mathcad users who simply had no idea about some of the tools and capabilities they were overlooking.

With his years of Mathcad experience, Maxfield offers many tips, sometimes subtle, to guide users in creating worksheets, preventing errors, maintaining readability, selecting useful variable names, and so forth.

In general, I recommend Maxfield's book as an easy-to-read, well organized guide to help a wide range of Mathcad users learn techniques useful for engineering and many other fields as well.

I congratulate the author for an excellent book that I think will be helpful to numerous Mathcad users.

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very useful for learning Mathcad

this is a very useful book for learning mathcad. the users of previous versions of mathcad will find some tricks for the new version (mathcad 13), but the title seems to much ambitious. the accompanying CD is a very good complement that really help, mainly thanks to the working mathcad installer. its license is limited to 4 months but those who don't have the complete program can use the demo version for really working with mathcad and decide if will be useful for them.

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This book provides the reader with access to many of the basic functions of mathcad. The author does this carefully and in some detail. But the book does not go far enough. There is nothing about differential equation solvers, nothing about random numbers, nothing about reading or writing data to or from a file and in fact nothing about engineering. What it is is a nice introduction to mathcad.

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Very good introduction to Mathcad; a bit light on "engineering" content

As others have commented, the book is an excellent introduction to Mathcad, but is quite "light" on real-world worked engineering examples.

First-time Mathcad users will find it to be an extremely useful user's manual, and even experienced users will appreciate the structured approach, and will find the odd "gem" that they have never appreciated before.

My only critique is that there is very little in the way of practical worked examples of actual engineering analysis and design problems. You will need to look elsewhere if you are seeking "drag and drop" worksheets of stress analysis etc.

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Using Mathcad to Create and organize your Engineering Calculations

Very good book...I think you learn to use and programming Mathcad. I indeed would recommend this book.

Using the author's considerable experience of applying Mathcad to engineering problems, Engineering with Mathcad identifies the most powerful functions and features of the software and teaches how to apply these to create comprehensive engineering calculations. Many examples from a variety of engineering fields demonstrate the power and utility of Mathcad's tools, while also demonstrating how other software, such as Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, can be incorporated effectively. This simple, step-by-step approach makes this book an ideal Mathcad text for professional engineers as well as engineering and science students.

A CD-ROM packaged with the book contains all the examples in the text and an evaluation version of the Mathcad software, enabling the reader to learn by doing and experiment by changing parameters.

* Identifies the key Mathcad functions for creating comprehensive engineering calculations
* A step-by-step approach enables easy learning for professional engineers and students alike
* Includes a CD-ROM containing all the examples in the text and an evaluation version of the Mathcad software

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