Industrial Electronics for Engineers, Chemists, and Technicians: With Optional Lab Experiments

This book is both lab manual and textbook, so if you do not have the exact measuring instruments the labs call for, you can skip lots of sections where the author really gets into setting the tests up. The primary value of this book for me were the clear explanations that came with the labs on how electronic components worked; but more importantly, how they related to one another and what they mean in a circuit. This book provides some valuable intuitive insights necessary to understand electronics, and I haven't seen this level and concentration of lucid discourse in any other electronics textbooks so far. This is a must-get book for anyone unfamiliar with electronics!

I had Dr. Shanefield as a professor at Rutgers for many courses especially in the area of electronic ceramics and I enjoyed his classes.This book is a great book because:- It makes a typically complicated subject manner like electronics and circuits understandable and enjoyable.- It is simple, easy to follow and very well organized.- College courses focus in on the theory where this book provides the theory and most important the applications to practice and further understand.I think this is a great book to have at your personal disposal. I would also like to state that my food scientist wife who hated electronics because she didn't understand it, now enjoys this subject matter and has a great deal of fun performing and understanding the labs. I too enjoy performing the labs as well.Kudos Dr. Shanefield !

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Quite an introductory level book, as it sets out to be. If your are a (UK) science or engineering graduate you may find the text rater trivial.Some circuits connect directly to the mains which is considerably more hazardous in the UK compared to USA. If you don't understand why that is so then I strongly suggest you that you don't undertake those experiments.Is this a book that will remain on my bookshelf? No, but then it taught me nothing.It wasn't worth the price. If you want to learn electronics then there are better books e.g. The Art of Electronics ed2  The Art of Electronics  (though this is now somewhat dated).Update Oct 2012. I'm so unimpressed with this book it has gone to the charity shop. The Art of Electronics