Systems Engineering and Analysis (Prentice Hall International Series in Industrial & Systems Engineering)

Shipping a paperback book in a larger box without padding is bound to result in this.

Great text, packed with information- very thorough coverage of the topic. I find skimming through it to be difficult because every sentence contains important information; I have to read most chapters twice to get everything out of them. A bit expensive though, you may want to consider getting an international version of the text- it's less than 1/3 the price and contains the very same information.

Great book.

This book is laughably difficult to use in a course setting. The shortcomings in consideration for usability and extensibility to the classroom setting by the authors significantly undermine their credibility on the topic of systems engineering.Strike 1 - The table of contents has no subtopics or any indications of what is in each chapter aside from a headline. For example "8 - Detail Design and Development". Say I want to review for a test, or find something quickly? Tough, read the whole chapter again.Strike 2 - There are no indications of what chapter you're in on any given page. For example, I flip to randomly selected page 242, which has heading 7.4 for Profitability Evaluation. This is actually in chapter 8, which you can only determine by flipping backwards until you find the intro page, which still doesn't even have the chapter number!!!! You have to find it in small print on the bottom of the first page of the chapter. This book is insanely monotonous so its easy to lose your place or accidentally go too far if for instance your instructor notes "check chapter 11, Section 5.3".Strike 3 - The index must have been an afterthought, as it hasn't included a single topic that I've wanted to review later. Want to brush up on how TPM's (Technical performance measures) are defined or used? Tough! Start flipping pages! I've tested numerous topics as I run across them in the text by flipping back to the index and laughing each time they are not there (e.g. SEMP (systems engineering management plan), PMP (program management plan), etc.).Seriously do not but this book until they fix these glaringly obvious flaws. I've been trying to find a contact for the authors or the publisher to no avail. I fault my instructor for selecting this book, obviously he has not tried to use it.

This 820 page SE book covers the topic from A to Z. As a textbook, I see the book as having 2 semesters of use, then used as a reference thereafter. I'm reading it just to gain a deeper level of detail after reading Blanchard's SE Management book written in the early 2000s. It is an excellent companion book to my Intro to Operations Research textbook.

New book binding is falling apart after a month. Don't buy. Unfortunately I have to use a book coming apart for a class for the rest of the semester.

I didn't like the topics in this books, even though they are important, I don't think the book has the right approach

This book is extremely repetitive and wordy without needing to be. I'm confident that the same content could have been delivered more effectively in less than half as many pages.If you open the book up to a random page and read any sentence, you'll see that it's a bit too formal and (likely) absurdly conservative - the author(s) feel the need to say "or" many times, to ensure they're covering each possible base. The difficulty in conveying useful information with this style of writing is compounded by the fact that they'll then say the same thing again, and again, and again in different ways using the same type of language. It's the type of book you'll find in one of Kafka's nightmares.

I put this on my MacBook using a Kindle app which was satisfactory. I have since bought the 10th Gen Kindle reader and although the book is in my library, it is no longer compatible with the Kindle reader which is annoying. I spent enough money on it after all.

no chapter numbers, no accurate graphs or figures numbering ... got lost following up with the professor