Engineering Your Future :The Professional Practice of Engineering

Publication subTitle :The Professional Practice of Engineering

Author: Stuart G. Walesh  

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc‎

Publication year: 2012

E-ISBN: 9781118163009

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780470900444

P-ISBN(Hardback):  9780470900444

Subject: F406.1 industrial organizational leadership and administrative management

Language: ENG

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Round out your technical engineering abilities with the business know-how you need to succeed

Technical competency, the "hard side" of engineering and other technical professions, is necessary but not sufficient for success in business. Young engineers must also develop nontechnical or "soft-side" competencies like communication, marketing, ethics, business accounting, and law and management in order to fully realize their potential in the workplace.

This updated edition of Engineering Your Future is the go-to resource on the nontechnical aspects of professional practice for engineering students and young technical professionals alike. The content is explicitly linked to current efforts in the reform of engineering education including ABET's Engineering Criteria 2000, ASCE's Body of Knowledge, and those being undertaken by AAEE, AIChE and ASME. The book treats essential nontechnical topics you'll encounter in your career, like self-management, interpersonal relationships, teamwork, project and total quality management, design, construction, manufacturing, engineering economics, organizational structures, business accounting, and much more. Features new to this revised edition include:

  • A stronger emphasis on management and leadership

  • A focus on personal growth and developing relationships

  • Expanded treatment of project management

  • Coverage of how to develop a quality culture and ways to encourage creative and innovative thinking

  • A discussion of how the results of design, the root of engineering, come to fruition in constructing and manufacturing, the fruit of engineering

  • New information on accounting principles that can be used in your career-long financial planning

  • An in-depth treatment of how engineering students and young practitioners can and should anticipate, participate in, and ultimately effect change

If you're a student or young practitioner starting your engineering career, Engineering Your Future is essential reading.

Chapter

Contents

pp.:  9 – 21

Preface to the Third Edition

pp.:  21 – 29

Acknowledgments

pp.:  29 – 31

List of Abbreviations

pp.:  31 – 37

Chapter 1 : Introduction: Engineering and the Engineer

pp.:  37 – 63

Chapter 2 : Leading and Managing: Getting Your Personal House in Order

pp.:  63 – 109

Chapter 3 : Communicating to Make Things Happen

pp.:  109 – 159

Chapter 4 : Developing Relationships

pp.:  159 – 203

Chapter 5 : Project Management: Planning, Executing, and Closing

pp.:  203 – 231

Chapter 6 : Project Management: Critical Path Method and Scope Creep

pp.:  231 – 267

Chapter 7 : Quality: What Is It and How Do We Achieve It?

pp.:  267 – 305

Chapter 8 : Design: To Engineer Is to Create

pp.:  305 – 319

Chapter 9 : Building: Constructing and Manufacturing

pp.:  319 – 335

Chapter 10 : Basic Accounting: Tracking the Past and Planning the Future

pp.:  335 – 365

Chapter 11: Legal Framework

pp.:  365 – 389

Chapter 12 : Ethics: Dealing with Dilemmas

pp.:  389 – 417

Chapter 13 : Role and Selection of Consultants

pp.:  417 – 439

Chapter 14 : Marketing: A Mutually-Beneficial Process

pp.:  439 – 467

Chapter 15: The Future and You

pp.:  467 – 491

Appendix A: Engineering your Future Supports ABET Basic Level Criterion 3

pp.:  491 – 493

Appendix B: Engineering Your Future Supports ABET Program Criteria for Civil and Similarly-Named Engineering Programs

pp.:  493 – 495

Appendix C: Engineering Your Future Supports the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge

pp.:  495 – 497

Index

pp.:  497 – 505

About the Author

pp.:  505 – 507

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