College EE Textbook Recommendations

Have you found an "engineering librarian"? If so, where?

An engineering library?

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If you signed for it before inspecting it, you're screwed. I had a situation just yesterday - the PHB was out on some errand, and when some shipping guy showed up with the docs and the parts, I almost shat myself, because it was then my responsibility to inspect and sign for over $10,000 worth of parts. EEk!

Luckily, before I had to put my head on the block, the PHB showed up, and he signed for it; the box was there and evidently it wasn't worth inspecting, but that wasn't my call.

Cheers! Rich

The sixth edition (1962) and seventh edition (1964) still teach me something new (or old, once forgotten) every now and again.

Jim

The GE Transistor Manual, 7th Edition, is a classic example.

At the University of Minnesota, for one. If you're really looking for one, you might check with Win Hill, who still works at Hahvahd, or Jim Thompson, who seems to have some kind of connection to Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

I used to get a kick out of telling people that I'm from "MIT", without revealing that it stands for "Minnesota Institute of Technology". ;-)

The truth is, I've had 40 years or BS in the School of Hard Knocks. ;-D

Cheers! Rich

Most better companies have their own library. Sperry/Honeywell even had a librarian.

...Jim Thompson

It was insured and now their are duking it out. I had a similar thing happen a long time ago. Sea container got dropped, smashing lots of stuff inside. The insurance company balked and balked until I finally threatened to notify the insurance commissioner in their state, plus call the (huge) shipping company about the "performance" of their preferred insurance carrier. Boy did that get their attention. I had a check within the week.

IBM used to have their own librarians. They hire the work out to the local colleges now. It works out surprisingly well, except the moved the library from the development site to the a manufacturing site. The "card catalog" is on-line and books come by internal mail from whatever site they happen to be shelved.

Not necessarily, there is the legal concept of concealed damage; just because the outside of the box looks OK does not mean that the shipped product inside is guaranteed to be OK. There is also a possible liability on whoever packaged the unit for shipping. The damage is real, the tort exists.

Listing a perhaps probable place that may or may not exist is hardly the same as providing an instance.

Let's see, you offered a really old recolection of a really good librarian and two very good engineers instead of an engineering librarian. No cigar.

Well, that was kind of my point. The PHB, by signing for the shipment, accepted all of that liability. If he hadn't shown up, I'd have got out the utility knife, opened the package and made sure that it was all there, undamaged, the right alloy, and all of that schtuff just to cover my and the shipper's tails. :-)

Thanks, Rich

I thought it was rather obvious where one would find such a place. Your college didn't have an engineering library (we had both an Engineering Library and an EE Library)? Most large companies have them too. While I was being just a little facetious, they are quite common.

Some of the books should be loose leaf in binders so you can add a few pages, every few years.

UMMM! Fried geranium!

Maxfield's books have been used at tech-school level quite succesfully (although tech schools stopped emphasizing this stuff some years ago.)

I met him in the 90's. I'm not a big fan of his books (the time period for which his books would've been a good impedance match for me was probably measured in days and happened decades ago) but he had an enthusiasm for the subject in particular, and an enthusiasm for teaching in general.

Art of Electronics. The math usage there is a little underpowered for even freshman engineering, so supplement with some books on ODE's and PDE's and LaPlace transforms etc. (traditionally MATH textbooks even though almost all the students in those math classes are engineers, mostly electrical).

Tim.