The Fantastical Engineer : A Thrillseeker's Guide to Careers in Theme Park Engineering

Author: Celeste Baine
List Price: $17.95
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ISBN: 0966476328
Publisher: Bonamy Publishing (07 August, 2000)
Sales Rank: 86,822
Average Customer Rating: 3.6 out of 5

Customer Reviews

Rating: 2 out of 5
Good Handbook for Counselors and Pre-Engineers
This book is the cheering section for hish school physics teachers to encourage students to go into engineering. It uses the amusement park as a model to showcase the different disciplines within engineering. There is a good list of good reading, manufacturers, trade magazines, and the like.

Rating: 4 out of 5
For All Those Amusement Park Enthusiasts
This is the perfect book for anyone interested in working for or starting an amusement park buisness. Great details and descriptions.

Rating: 3 out of 5
Okay book--too little for the money though--great appendix
I am a high school student looking forward to some sort of structural/civil engineering career, and a career in the amusement industry sounded really great, so when I found this book I was really excited. A week later, I got it in the mail, and was dissappointed. The book seems weakly set-up and organized, and too generalized when it shouldn't be, and way to specific in some spots. One chapter, to my surprise, had several pages just on how to build a model of a rollercoaster! Interesting, nevertheless, but in a childrens' book about wolves or something, would you have a chapter about collecting feces samples? I am not going to put this book down too far, though. The appendix is the most helpful part, with reccomended reading and all sorts of info (web sites and e-mail even) about most entertainment industry manufacturers, designers, etc., etc... It was good, but gave a too generalized view of the industry, I think, and not enough about how to get into it. Took me about a couple of hours of easy reading to finish it--if that says anything.

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