YABRT - book recommendation for intro to EE

[Sho'Nuff]

As many of you know, I am a patent attorney. Although my technical expertise is in materials chemistry (specifically alloys and composites), I have lately been asked to handle a number of matters related to electrical engineering.

To facilitate this growing aspect of my practice, I would like to read a few books on the fundamentals of EE. Since many of you folks are smarter than I am, I thought I would ask for a recommendation for EE books that are suitable for someone of my skill level. I.e., someone with a graduate level degree in a hard science and who has taken math through differential equations, but who has little to know knowledge of circuits, mosfets, capacitors, etc.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Matthiasa]

Hmm for the first few intro EE classes I'm pretty sure I used Engineering Circuit Analysis by W. H. Hayt, Jr., J. E. Kemmerly, and S. M. Durbin.
That might not be the same version I used though and I'm not sure of the material it went into or its math level.

Another Book that was used was Microelectronic Circuits by Adel S. Sedra and Kenneth C. Smith.
I do know this one did cover the material you specified but I am not sure if it covers the standard techniques for analysis or just assumes one would know it by the time they got to that book.

 

[Modelworks]

The bible for EE is pretty much the Art of Electronics. It starts out with the basics and build on that. It has been in classrooms for over 20 years.
http://www.amazon.com/Art-Electronic.../dp/0521370957


For something a bit less intense look for books by Forest Mims III. He has written some really great stuff over the years and writes in a way that almost anyone can understand.
http://www.amazon.com/Getting-Started-Electronics-Forrest-Mims/dp/0945053282/ref=pd_sim_b_3

 

[z1ggy]

There are so many different areas of expertise for EE. I am an EE myself. There are areas such as power distribution/transmission, electronics/hardware, optics, microelectronics, magnetics/electric fields, and digital signal processing are to name a few. I am not sure if their is one book that covers every single topic that an EE needs to learn about. Perhaps the book above covers a vast majority of it, but you may need to specify what area of EE you need to learn about.

 

[A5]

It'd probably be cheaper for your firm to bring in a specialist when needed than to spend your billable hours (assuming you're not self-employed) learning EE from the ground up. 😛

The books listed so far are good for the basics, but (hopefully) any EE-related patents you deal with would quickly descend into the minutiae of a very specific sub-field.

 

[Sho'Nuff]

It'd probably be cheaper for your firm to bring in a specialist when needed than to spend your billable hours (assuming you're not self-employed) learning EE from the ground up. 😛

The books listed so far are good for the basics, but (hopefully) any EE-related patents you deal with would quickly descend into the minutiae of a very specific sub-field.

I would not be reading this book at work. I would be doing so on the side. Basically self teaching myself EE. I've done it before, so I don;t see why I can't do it again.