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Cavemonster

Hi everyone.

I’m a registered electrician currently exploring avenues of progression on from installation with a focus on engineering over the general management route I see a lot of people going down. At the moment I’m working on an industrial site where there is a lot of DCS controlled automation and instrumentation. As a contractor you don’t really get a chance to gain much more than, what I personally feel is, a rudimentary understanding of how these systems operate. So the only way I feel like I can progress my understanding in this regard is to educate myself in my own time and I would love to get any recommendations from the community of electrical engineers out there, for text books that would help me to learn the ins and outs of what I’m installing here and any other resources that helped you when you were learning. Also anything that’s relevant to the HND in electrical engineering, which I hope to do a little way down the road, would also be greatly appreciated!

Thanks again,

Dan

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    Not a personal recommendation, but one I am aware of through a number of members previously recommending it is Engineering Mathematics (and the follow ons) by K A Stroud.  I believe this has previously been pre-reading for a number of degree programmes and is a good basis for the maths if you haven't done study at this level before, and helps with refresher for those who have.

    If you're an IET member it's also worth looking at the IET library: Library Home - The IET Library - London - Liberty

  • 0 in reply to Kathryn Bain

    It is a very good book, I wish we'd had it when I did my degree, I only came across it later. Probably too "heavy" for the original post - you need to know what maths you need first before trying to use it - but great for degree level work.

    Again unfortunately probably not relevant to the original post, but for those wanting to understand more electronics from the absolute basics upwards I'd still recommend Horowitz and Hill "The Art of Electronics" - best to get the third (gold) edition, but even the very old black and silver editions will still teach you a lot. (The black edition is 45 years old now!!!!!!!!!) I remember that during the 26 year gap between the silver and gold editions coming out I looked very hard to find an alternative to recommend to people, and simply couldn't find anything so clearly written.

  • 0 in reply to Kathryn Bain

    This actually rings a bell so it’s good that I’m encountering it once again as a recommendation from someone else! Pre-reading material is very much what I’m looking for as I’ll more than likely have to self-fund and want to be as prepared as possible. I have been through academia in my semi-distant past, albeit in a very different discipline, so I know how difficult it’ll be to juggle work and study. So, getting a leg up on it so to speak.

    Thanks!

  • 0 in reply to Andy Millar

    Thanks, Andy!

    I’ve taken a chance on a couple of books before relating to what I do and have found them to be a bit of a mixed bag, with one of them written as a series of bullet points and diagrams that look like they were made in ms paint. Kind of what drove me here. I’ll add your recommendation to my list!

    Thanks again!

  • 0 in reply to Andy Millar

    Hello Andy:

    When I was taking my engineering/STEM courses there were generally no affordable text books available.

    The teacher wrote everything on the chalk boards-even the required homework questions.

    It was a wonderful way to learn as the teacher could be stopped at anytime to  clarify (for example math expansions and assumptions)  steps.

    The only text book I purchased from a London bookshop was Kaye and Laby Table of Physical and Chemical constants. The remaining books were things like Teach Yourself "Calculus" .

    Peter Brooks

    Palm Bay FL

  • 0 in reply to Andy Millar

    That brings back memories. I still have it too! some amazing guide books  on antennas, noise etc.  They are here too. do not get me going on the chemistry books..... 

  • 0 in reply to Peter Brooks

    I had a maths lecturer did the same. Victor Graham of Trinity college fame. Went up and down the rows asking questions too. Choosing seats became a forecasting exercise. Everyone got amazing   results and maths degrees. :-) 

  • 0 in reply to Peter Brooks

    Kaye & Laby is available online via the UK National Physical Laboratory (NPL) website, although the contents are no longer updated:

    I still use Kaye & Laby occaisionally, alongside the enormous Perry's Chemical Engineers Handbook!

    - Ross

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  • 0 in reply to Ross Currie

    Hello Ross:-

    I do have a 1950 edition of "Electrons and Holes In Semiconductors" by William Shockley which I got at a Library Book Sale a few years ago for 50 cents.

    If your into Quantum Mechanics there is an excellent (but strange) English translation of the Japanese "What is Quantum Mechanics? A physics  Adventure written by Transnational College of LEX.  

    Peter

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