title: Doing Engineering Calculations
abstract: Engineering calculations have evolved from only having a limited number of tools.(pencil/pen and paper, slide rule) to have many tools available - from the historicalto the spreadsheet, to computer codes and complex special purpose software. Often,especially at the undergraduate level, though even in practice, engineeringstudents and engineers rush to use seductive simple software such asspreadsheets for calculations. This book emphasizes that the properexecution of an engineering calculation re