Recommended texts for academic reading

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

  • I'm not sure if it is exactly what you are after, but I would recommend having a look at 'Lessons In Industrial Instrumentation' by Tony R. Kuphaldt - it is freely available online under a Creative Commons licence.

    - Ross

  • 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