Book description
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:
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A stronger emphasis on management and leadership
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A focus on personal growth and developing relationships
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Expanded treatment of project management
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Coverage of how to develop a quality culture and ways to
encourage creative and innovative thinking
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A discussion of how the results of design, the root of
engineering, come to fruition in constructing and manufacturing,
the fruit of engineering
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New information on accounting principles that can be used in
your career-long financial planning
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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.
Stuart G. Walesh, PhD, PE, is an independent
consultant who provides management, engineering, and
education/training services to private, public, academic, and
volunteer sector organizations. With over forty years of engineering,
education, and management experience in the government, academic, and
private sectors, Walesh has worked as a project manager, department
head, discipline manager, author, marketer, sole proprietor,
professor, and dean of an engineering college.
