Liengme's Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers

Liengme's Guide to Excel 2016 for Scientists and Engineers is a completely updated guide for students, scientists and engineers who want to use Microsoft Excel 2016 to its full potential, whether on a PC or a Mac. Excel, as the industry standard spreadsheet, has a range of scientific functions that can be utilized for the modeling, analysis and presentation of quantitative data. This text provides a straightforward guide to using the functions of Excel, guiding the reader from basic principles to more complicated areas, such as formulae, charts, curve-fitting, equation solving, integration, macros, statistical functions, and how to present quantitative data.

  • Written specifically for the requirements of science and engineering students and professionals working with Microsoft Excel, brought fully up-to-date with Microsoft Office release of Excel 2016
  • Presents the features of Excel 2016 that are illustrated through a wide variety of examples based in technical contexts
  • Demonstrates the differences between the PC and Mac versions of Excel
  • Includes many new end-of-chapter problems at varying levels of difficulty


Bernard Liengme attended Imperial College in London and received a BSc & PhD in Chemistry. He also received post-docs at Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburg and the University of British Columbia. He has conducted extensive reseach in surface chemistry and Mossbauer Effect. He has been at St Francis Xavier University in Canada since 1968 as professor, Associate Dean and Registrar as well as teaching chemistry and computer science.