Manufacturing Processes for Engineering Materials (5th Edition)

While this book is a fantastic overview of all things materials and their many, many, many different methods of processing, the text is beyond dry when it comes to actual readability. A few weeks could have been set aside in the writing process to make the text far less formulaic and repetitive than it is currently, but that effort was obviously not made.However, its impossible to fault a textbook for being dry, and that's the only reason the single star was docked. The descriptions of the manufacturing processes and their applications, on the other hand, were detailed and helpful, and the book is recommended in that regard.

Being a junior mechanical engineering student, this text is whats used for the lecture. I use this textbook a lot and it is very helpful: all of the processes are well explained, why they should/should not be used in situations. Also this book makes a good effort to take the raw material and mix with facts beyond just when to use a process to get you actually interested in manufacturing. For example how investment casting (aka lost wax process) allowed people to create intricate statues.Every week a quiz was given and studying for an hour with the book an notes helped me ace it every time.**This semester I had expected that manufacturing would be the driest class; in fact this is one of the classes that I most enjoyed. I'm sure it was partly due because of my professor but this book certainly didn't hurt.

A good first primer for the material at hand. Much of the information in this book is in regards to machining, casting, and related topics such as roughness. The rest of the topics will get a paragraph or page. If you deep information on a specific process additional texts are required.

Really great book for manufacturing engineering, would use again if I needed to review this topic again.

I received my textbook in the estimated time frame, and it was in pristine condition. Very happy with the provider and I would purchase from them again in the future when I need more textbooks.

This book has just about everything you could ever need in order to learn the basics of manufacturing, right down to the illustrations.

good

Decent book with a lot of information.

This is actually helpful. I understood what slab analysis was in a couple minutes of reading than what my prof took half an hour to explain, after which i stopped listening since I couldn't follow him anymore.

Great