He holds a degree in mechanical engineering from Cooper Union School of Engineering in New York.
Hicks is the author of many books on small-business and real estate investing, including, to name a few: 209 Fast Spare-Time Ways to Build Zero Cash into 7 Figures a Year in Real Estate How to Raise All the Money You Need for Any Business. He is also the director of a large lending organization in New York City. He is the president of International Wealth Success Inc. He has worked on plant design and operation in a variety of industries, taught at several engineering schools, and lectured both in the United States and abroad.
Hicks, PE, is an experienced consulting engineer and is the author of more than twenty books on engineering and related fields. Indepth coverage of important topics such as Soil Earth Formulas, surveying formulas, building and structure formulas, Bridge and suspension and cable formulas are explained. Handle every day-to-day calculation instantly and accurately.Īspirants can see exactly how to compute the desired values for a particular design, and go quickly from data to finished design. There are near about 500 formulas along with the Engineering Mathematics and all the Civil Engineering Subjects.Įach chapter, offering collections of problems and calculations, gives a quick reference to a well-defined topic such as: Conversion Factors for Civil Engineering Practice Beam Formulas Column Formulas Piles and Piling Formulas Concrete Formulas Timber Engineering Formulas Surveying Formulas Soil and Earthwork Formulas Building and Structures Formulas Bridge and Suspension-Cable Formulas and, Hydraulics and Waterworks Formulas. The calculation procedures have practical applications in thousands of engineering computations for actual design and operating conditions. This book consists of hundreds of worked-out calculation procedures for a variety of engineering disciplines with step-by-step solutions. Emphasises the conceptual understanding of the subject is given in a comprehensive way. The book provides solid foundation in civil engineering concepts and its applications. It will also be useful to self-studying students and those aspiring for competitive exams.
Engineering Aspirants can go through these formulas and learn the concepts in a different way. This book provides important formula notes for civil engineering aspirants. Now one can get a single compilation of all essential civil engineering formulas and equations in one easy-to-use handbook.
For the PE, I photocopied the ToC and blew it up so I would have room to write.This book is an indispensable portable reference for all practicing civil engineers and students. I am going to spend some time and make my own hand notes on the Table of Contents. I ended up finding it by using the Table of Contents and going to Chapter 8 titles "Soil and Earthwork Formulas" and just flipping through it. Haha, I would have never found Phase Diagrams based on that title. Turns out it is in the section titles "Relationship of Weights and Volumes in Soils". For example, I was looking for Phase Diagrams originally but could not find it. My only issue is that the book seems to be written too formal. UPDATE: I have been using the book a little more and it does have good value.
I'm definitely satisfied with my purchase. It's written like I used to prepare my test notes which is with just enough description of the equation and a definition for each component of the equation. I was disappointed not to see the phase diagram but maybe I have missed it. This book has a lot of common use formulas. It takes a collection of good books and this should be one of them. Not every book can have everything you need to know in it.