Contemporary Engineering Economics (4th Edition) | 
 enlarge | Author: Chan S. Park
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 75770
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 4
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 928
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.5
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 7.6 x 1.6
ISBN: 0131876287
Dewey Decimal Number: 670
EAN: 9780131876286
ASIN: 0131876287
Publication Date: July 6, 2006
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This book is intended for undergraduate engineering students taking the introductory engineering economics course at the university level. The fourth edition of Contemporary Engineering Economics has been thoroughly revised and updated while continuing to adopt a contemporary approach to the subject, and teaching, of engineering economics. This text aims not only to build a sound and comprehensive coverage of engineering economics, but also to address key educational challenges, such as student difficulty in developing the analytical skills required to make informed financial decisions.
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 Did this book even have an editor? October 21, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There may be useful information in this text, but it's hard to trust anything that's so poorly written.
Page 32: ". . . the answer to each question is provided by one of financial statements."
Page 42: "Investment activities include such as purchasing, financing . . ."
I noticed an average of one error per page, although this seemed to get better as I read past the third chapter. (Maybe I just lost the ability to tell!) Now, I haven't noticed any substantive errors, but it's quite possible that one of the frequent mistakes in language caused the meaning of a sentence to change. In addition, the errors are just distracting! Imagine reading along, and not being able to get through a single page without doing a double-take because a sentence doesn't scan. And I'm not even trying to proof-read, just trying to understand the text!
All that being said, this seems to be a thorough treatment of the subject, and I guess I can infer that my professor thinks the content is reliable. But this text reads like a product manual that's been poorly translated from another language!
 Very Good. June 22, 2003
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is an excellent text for an engineering economics class. It concisely explains and demonstrates basic ideas and financial concepts in a logical manner. The only draw back I could detect was the author's nomemclature, which he introduces at the first of the text. If you don't memorize it early on, it becomes difficult to understand quickly. The professor who taught the Engineering Economics class I took was none other than Chan Park himself (guess what the required text was!).
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