The author has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Michigan. He worked as Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Iowa State University, Ames for about 40 years. He Author photo, Name and credentials was involved in both teaching and research in various capacities. While working he had an active interest in investing and had built a good portfolio of stocks and bonds. After retirement he got involved in investing starting with fixed income investments, real estate, bonds, stocks and mutual funds etc.
Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
Fellow ASME and ASTM
There is a full chapter
on the investment in
bonds and other
fixed income
securities as well.
About The
Book
The book assumes no prior knowledge of investments so that a beginning investor can understand the principles involved. It starts by emphasizing the need for investing and then introducing the different type of investments such as bonds, common stocks,