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Year: 2012
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ISBN 10:  047090044X

ISBN 13: 978-0470900444

Author: Stuart G. Walesh

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.

Table of contents: 

Chapter 1 Introduction: Engineering and the Engineer

The Playing Field

Definitions of Engineering

The Seven Qualities of Effective Leaders

The Engineer as Builder

Concluding Thoughts: Common Sense, Common Practice, and Good Habits

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

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

Start with You

Employment or Graduate School?

The New Work Environment: Culture Shock?

The First Few Months of Practice: Make or Break Time

Managing Personal Professional Assets: Building Individual Equity

Concluding Thoughts: Getting Your Personal House in Order

Chapter 3 Communicating to Make Things Happen

Five Forms of Communication

Three Distinctions between Writing and Speaking

Listening: Using Ears and Eyes

Writing Tips: How to Write to Make Things Happen

Speaking Tips: How to Speak to Make Things Happen

Concluding Thoughts about Writing and Speaking

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

Chapter 4 Developing Relationships

Taking the Next Career Step

Personality Profiles

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

Theories X and Y

Delegation: Why Put Off Until Tomorrow What Someone Else Can Do Today?

Orchestrating Meetings

Working with Technologists, Technicians, and Other Team Members

Selecting Co-Workers and “Managing Your Boss”

Caring Isn’t Coddling

Coaching

Teamwork

Effective Professional Meeting and Conference Attendance

Concluding Thoughts about Developing Relationships

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

Chapter 5 Project Management: Planning, Executing, and Closing

Project Broadly Defined

Project Management Defined

The Centrality of Project Management

Relevance of Project Management to the Student and Entry-Level Technical Person

Planning the Project

Executing the Project

Closing the Project

Closure: Common Sense and Self Discipline

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

Chapter 6 Project Management: Critical Path Method and Scope Creep

This Chapter Relative to the Preceding Chapter

The Critical Path Method

Scope Creep

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

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

Everyone Is for It!

Quality Defined

A Caution for Engineers and Other Technical Personnel

Quality Control and Quality Assurance

Suggestions for Developing a Quality Seeking Culture

Tools and Techniques for Stimulating Creative and Innovative Thinking

Closure: Commit to Quality

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

Chapter 8 Design: To Engineer Is to Create

The Root of Engineering

This Chapter’s Approach

Design in the Context of Major Engineering Functions

The Disproportionate Impact of the Design Function

Design in Terms of Deliverables

Design as Risky Business

Design as a Personally-Satisfying and People-Serving Process

The Words “Engineer” and “Create”

Closing Thoughts About Design

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

Chapter 9 Building: Constructing and Manufacturing

The Engineer as Builder

Constructing

Manufacturing

Differences between Constructing and Manufacturing

Closing Thoughts about Constructing and Manufacturing

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

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

Relevance of Accounting to the Engineer

The Balance Sheet: How Much Is It Worth?

The Income Statement: Inflow and Outflow

Personal Income Statement

Business Income Statement

Relationship between the Balance Sheet and the Income Statement

Accounting for Your Future

The Impact of Time Utilization Rate and Expense Ratio on Profitability in the Consulting Business

The Multiplier

The Income Statement as Part of the Business Plan for a Consulting Firm

Project Overruns: Implications for Profitability and Personnel

Concluding Thoughts about You and Accounting

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

Chapter 11 Legal Framework

Why Law for Engineers?

Legal Terminology

Changing Attitudes: Forewarned is Forearmed

Liability: Incurring It

Liability: Failures and Learning from Them

Liability: Minimizing It

Maintaining Perspective on Liability Minimization

Legal Forms of Business Ownership

Concluding Comments about the Legal Framework

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

Chapter 12 Ethics: Dealing with Dilemmas

Inevitable Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions

Defining Ethics

Teaching and Learning Ethics

Legal and Ethical Domain

Codes of Ethics

Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas: Using Codes and Other Resources

Ethics Codes

Case Study: Discovering a Major Design Error after Construction Is Complete

Concluding Thoughts: Seeing Sermons

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

Chapter 13 Role and Selection of Consultants

Consultant Defined and Why You Should Care

Why Retain a Consultant? Let’s Do It Ourselves!

Characteristics of Successful Consultants

Consultant Selection Process

Price-Based Selection: Three Costs to the Consultant

Conclusions about the Role and Selection of Consultants

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

Chapter 14 Marketing: A Mutually-Beneficial Process

Consider Your View of Marketing: Are You Carrying Some Baggage?

Chapter’s Scope

The Economic Motivation for Marketing Professional Services

Marketing and Selling: Different but Related

Marketing Techniques and Tools

What Works and What Doesn’t Work

Marketing Concluding Comments

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

Exercises

Chapter 15 The Future and You

What Does the Future Hold?

The World You Will Work In: Same Role but New Stage

How to Lead Change

Concluding Thoughts about You and the Future

Cited Sources

Annotated Bibliography

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