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This text presents a balanced treatment of environmental engineering by combining engineering concepts with the importance of environmental ethics. This third edition highlights sustainable development and emphasizes the need for engineers to become even more environmentally responsible during this time of increasing awareness of environmental concerns. The authors challenge students with problems that require not only a technical solution but a thorough considerati… More >>
Introduction to Environmental Engineering – SI Version
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#1 by Yesenia Montalvo on May 3, 2010 - 1:50 pm
My husband buy this book for his study and he always buy in amazon and he recommended 100%
Rating: 5 / 5
#2 by E. Kern on May 3, 2010 - 2:56 pm
The way the book is laid out is quite nice. The information is useful, interesting, and presented in a down to earth and logical fashion. The homework problems are definitely a departure from the norm, as they leave a lot of blanks for the reader to fill in, which also means that there is no right answer to many of the problems. Because of this, there are no answers in the back of the book to compare your work with. For example, there is a question that simply asks “how much beer is consumed in the US per day?”, no other information or assumptions are provided so you have to come up with a creative and realistic way to answer the question. This is consistent with the nature of environmental engineering, being that there usually aren’t any right or wrong answers, so long as you can defend your work/opinion. At first I did not like the book, but after using it for a semester I really like the freedom to be creative in my analysis. This book is printed in black an white, which is a GREAT. They don’t have to coat the pages in that funky clay treatment that you have to do for color printing, so the book is about a third the weight of a comparable color textbook, and the size is very convenient. My one complaint is that I think that the price is unreasonable, and that’s why it is a 4 star book. Great content, but too big a price tag.
Rating: 4 / 5