AoA,
I agree with earlier posts. I would go one step further and say that most of these books are copy paste jobs.
Regards & AH
Nadeem
From: Kashif <kashif.siddiq@nu.edu.pk>
To: pakgrid@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 7:34 PM
Subject: [pakgrid] Re: Academic Alert
I am in total agreement and have had similar observations in the areas of Microwave Engineering, Electronics, and some other areas. Quite often 'Simple' does not imply 'accurate'. Nice point raised by Dr. Nasrullah. This does not mean a total rejection of Indian texts but to watch out for texts doing the job of ruining the correct concepts in a search for simplicity.
Kashif Siddiq,
Assistant Professor,
National University, FAST,
Islamabad
--- In pakgrid@yahoogroups.com, Nasrullah Khan Kalair wrote:
>
> Dear ReadersPlease note and spread information to concerned electrical engineering teachers and students to refrain choosing Indian Published Books. I chose WIND POWER book for MS students last semester but found so many mistakes in equations, concepts and problems. We decided eventually to change book. Saeed Book Bank and Mirza Book Agency are home of
> 1. Indian substandard books avoid reading as text book2. Foreign Policy Books spreading disinformation such as vortex of conflict, Pakistan cauldron,and so many other geopolitical books.....
> Unfortunately 99.99% electrical engineering PhD are telecom and computer experts. In many private and public sector universities material science background teachers teach electrical engineering courses. They do not know the difference therefore recommend students easy/simple Indian written books.
> Book shops are full of Indian writer books that is academic attack on our institutions. Western authors may be very very bad people in politics but they are fair in technical writings. They got this chance for acute shortage of power electrical engineers in Pakistan. My job done now over to you......
> Dr Nasrullah Khan
>
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