Reviews for Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering A to Amorphous Polymers

The average rating for Encyclopedia of Polymer Science and Engineering A to Amorphous Polymers based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-04-15 00:00:00 Stephen Ho Auyang is an MIT advocate--and it shows. In the interest of full disclosure, I work at the University of Illinois, and so have a bias regarding this great institution. However, anything that hints at an MIT connection is praised endlessly, and there are no direct references to the U of I and the seminal contributions in many of the areas discussed. If you can't even acknowledge peers, seems there might be insecurity there. Also, some of the chapters are unecessarily circuitous in their descriptions of events or key points. Although, certainly readable by the layity (being a non-engineer myself), it doesn't exactly engage the reader as a page-turner. In particular, you can tell Ms. Auyang loves math and computer science as she goes on ad nauseum about information and coding theory in the "Sciences of Useful Systems" chapter. This is the longest segment of the book, and the most boring. I would have enjoyed more real-world examples like the ones she used at Boeing and Lockheed, or regarding the nuclear industry. Her chapter on "Leaders Who are Engineers" dealt with the usual suspects like Edison and Ford, along with a cast of other characters, but then much of the last part was dedicated to policy issues. Rather than an endless frontier, I felt like this was an endless read.

Review # 2 was written on 2016-10-09 00:00:00 Michael Whalen used for product design & development course.