Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering

I've been having this book for many years by now, probably over 10 years. However, the contents of the book relates truly to the title, "Foundations of Materials Science and Engineering." The information contained here in this book helps the reader to establish at least a basic, but not limited, knowledge in what the Materials Engineering is all about. Of course, there has been many more R&D and new materials processes developed in the materials engineering world since the 2nd edition of this book, but there are many things about materials in this book that will never change. The newer version contains an update with the latest in Research & Technology Development as well as new materials processes and treatment. I, myself just bought a copy of the newest version, 5th Edition, to stay tuned with the latest in Materials Engineering as I have a Master's degree in Materials Engineering. Also, is good to learn about materials because everything in this world is done using materials, without materials nothing get done, and sometimes you may wonder what materials are made out many of the households goods, surgical equipment, electronics, vehicles, and etc. The series of these books can help you understand it a little bit better.

If you are reading this review, you are undoubtedly buying this book for your materials science course. Fair warning to you. Materials science is basically a niche course and the number of texts available that cover the material is tiny. This is the only explanation I can come up with for the popularity of this text.Even for an engineering textbook, where the standards of what constitutes a good textbook are exceedingly low, this one stands out to me. The subjects are covered superficially, but the order is well thought out (hence 2 stars instead of 1), and because of that superficiality you would expect to get better coverage from the sample problems at the end of the chapter. Alas! Only one in ten of those problems actually has an answer in the back of the book that you can use to check your work. There isn't even a student solutions manual as an accompaniment.Long story short, hope that your professor is thorough and take good notes in class, because this text will be a useless paperweight taking up space on your desk.

It was well organized and structured. It would have been nice if there was some colored pictures in the book because black, white, and blue got kind of tedious to read. However the information in the book is solid.

Easy read and great examples/problems to work from

Fairly good materials book. In some cases material was not presented as clearly as would be liked, but over all good book.

Great textbook for Materials Science classes. If combined with a great professor, this book is all you need to get an A. This book quickly and thoroughly goes over the chemistry of metals, ceramics, and polymers. There's a lot more advanced material, but i'm only 3 weeks into my course and this explains materials very well!

Came in as expected, and was in great condition.

I enjoy this book. Professor even uses some info for his thesis on his Phd.I ordered with Amazon used and it came in a very good time and it was very clean and neat.Only a few pencil marks in it.Great book if you are going school for engineering. Teaches you a lot.

This book attempts to cover the vast expanse of material science, from the basics of the atom to the application of materials and everything in between, and does so in my opinion very well. This book has the potential to take you from zero to hero, though don't be fooled into thinking this will be a walk in the park...this text book is highly technical, littered with complex equations and scientific terminologies, therefore some background knowledge prior to reading this book is required. Therefore, I am inclined to recommend this book primarily to students (degree, masters, PHD's) and industry professionals. In my experience, you simply can't go wrong with McGraw Hill published material...logical layout with very few, if any grammatical or text mistakes.

My son found it very useful.

会社と自宅用にとおもって買いなおしました。だいぶ間違っているところもありますが、これだけまとめられているものは、ほかには知りません。