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Title: Civil Engineering Reference Manual for the PE Exam, Ninth Edition by Michael R. Lindeburg ISBN: 1-888577-95-9 Publisher: Professional Pubns Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $186.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.77 (30 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The book is As good as new. Thank you!
Comment: The book looks great. Thanks
Rating: 4
Summary: Best Reference Manual Available
Comment: I've been fortunate to have a lot of varied experience in the Civil Engineering profession, but this is the most comprehensive review on the market. It's heavily weighted in the structures area. So if you're strong in structures, it's nothing more than a brief review. Definitely better than the 6th edition, which I have borrowed from a co-worker.
Rating: 4
Summary: This book is vital though it could be better...
Comment: I just took the PE exam today (Oct. 24, 2003) and I really field tested this book thoroughly. I found it to be a great reference and it helped me answer a lot of the problems on the exam. There tend to be a bunch of questions on the exam that are definition questions...you look up the topic in the index and instantly, you have an answer. Or lots of questions where you have no idea how to solve it...look up the topic in the index, and instantly, you have the equation you need to solve the problem.
It does cover all the topics that the exam deals with...and even has nice supplemental material which deals with some theory/background. You must get the sample questions book that accompanies this book...I even looked through those problems occasionally to assist my in answering the exam problems.
There are some weaknesses though but ones that you can work around. For transportation, the book simply refers you to the codes. Same for the sample questions. It would be nice if the book contained more of the code directly so you wouldn't need to be jumping to those books. Same for the more special topics in structures...it would be nice if the book contained more AASHTO bridge type stuff and it doesn't help much with seismic.
The geotechnical section is very decent...and the water resources section is also good for the morning session (I took structures so do not know how it handles for other topics in the afternoon session). The environmental section was not very good to me (although I don't know much about that topic which is why I probably found it to be confusing) but there are some definitions that come in handy.
The only other slight nag is that the sample problems that accompany the book are in general too involved. You want to understand the topic but you don't want to overstudy a topic.
All in all, this is a must have...could use slight improvement but without much real competition from the other PE book writers, you gotta get it.
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Title: Civil Engineering Sample Examination by Michael R. Lindeburg ISBN: 1888577606 Publisher: Professional Pubns Pub. Date: June, 2000 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Quick Reference for the Civil Engineering PE Exam by Michael R. Lindeburg ISBN: 1888577762 Publisher: Professional Pubns Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $56.00 |
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Title: 101 Solved Civil Engineering Problems by Michael R. Lindeburg ISBN: 1888577622 Publisher: Professional Pubns Pub. Date: September, 2001 List Price(USD): $72.00 |
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Title: Seismic Design of Building Structures : A Professional's Introduction to Earthquake Forces and Design Details by Michael R. Lindeburg, Majid Baradar ISBN: 1888577525 Publisher: Professional Pubns Pub. Date: January, 2001 List Price(USD): $62.00 |
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Title: Civil Engineering Hydraulics and Engineering Hydrology: Review for the Breadth/Depth Exam in Civil Engineering by Bruce E. Larock ISBN: 1576450449 Publisher: Engineering Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $20.95 |
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