Wednesday, September 27, 2006

Kalpakjian's book "Manufacturing Engineering & Technology"

I manage to download the solution for Kalpakjian’s book and also their slides for the big text. I think it’s a good effort by Edward Pang, maybe the author from Malaysia who did a SI conversion for Kalpakjian’s book. Kalpakjian’s manufacturing book is pretty much too bulky, with many references to other pages or chapters or even outside references. This make it quite not user friendly for beginners. Maybe ok for intermediate or expert user. The slides pretty much sum up most of the thick book, in point form. I have read through the book before and the slides are good. Trying to teach without the slides is a big task. The slides are really a good help. You can get this if you are instructor of the course where you buy a big amount for your students. I manage to help sold about 60 copies. This book can be used in two subjects at least and it’s good for all time reference.