This book is required for our Chemistry of Materials class at school. I found this book to have a lot of information in it... but it was hard to follow. Many times the book did not explain what we were supposed to learn for the class. I thought it was a hard book to read

This book is an excellent text for undergraduate general materials science or a review book for PhD qualifying examinations. It is better balanced with respect to material classes than most general materials science texts, which tend to focus almost entirely on metallurgy. This book is slightly slanted towards semiconductor applications. The chapters are organized in an industrial product driven manner beginning with fundamentals and proceeding to properties, structure, processing, and failure analysis. The chapters contain excellently drawn, three-dimensional figures in blue and grey. Each chapter ends with a large number of study questions that test an in depth understanding of the material and really require students to put A and B together. If you don't use it as a text, then buy it and use the study questions for your exams.