With an informal and engaging writing style, A User's Guide to Engineering is an exploration of the world of engineering for future and current engineers.

This title is part of Prentice Hall's ESource series. ESource allows professors to select the content appropriate for their freshman/first-year engineering course. Professors can adopt the published manuals as is or use ESource's website to view and select the chapters they need, in the sequence they want. The option to add their own material or copyrighted material from other publishers also exists.