Book Reviews : Information Technology for the 21st Century: Managing the Change, Authored by M. V. R. Rodriguez, Petrobrás S.A., Brazil and A. J. Ferrante, UFRJ, Brazil, ISC/TSO, Italy; Published by Computational Mechanics Publications, Southampton, Boston

The edited book explores a number of important and pragmatic advances and applications involving the use of RP&M-generated patterns in shell investment casting, sand casting, soft tooling, and hard tooling. The book presents an update on the state-of-the-art technology, and what these systems can do for the user in terms of reducing cost, speeding time to market, and improving product quality. There are 14 chapters in the book. Some chapters describe foundry perspectives on recent RP&M developments, the use of RP&M at Texas Instruments, Inc., Sandia National Laboratories, Ford Motor Company, and some novel applications involving flow visualization, photoelastic stress testing, dynamic vibration analysis, and surgical preplanning in the medical field.