Engineering Your Future
The Professional Practice of Engineering
3. Edition March 2012
512 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
This updated textbook provides a resource on the non-technical aspects of professional practice for both engineering students and young technical professionals. Coverage supports the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)'s Engineering Criteria 2000, as well as ASCE's current BoK and ASME and AIChE's BoKs. The book treats essential non-technical topics like self-management, communication, interpersonal relationships, teamwork, project and total quality management, design, construction, manufacturing, engineering economics, organizational structures, business accounting, law, ethics, consulting, and marketing. Engineering Your Future concludes with the future world of work, paradigms, and leadership.
This updated textbook provides a resource on the non-technical aspects of professional practice for both engineering students and young technical professionals. Coverage supports the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology (ABET)'s Engineering Criteria 2000, as well as ASCE's current BoK and ASME and AIChE's BoKs. The book treats essential non-technical topics like self-management, communication, interpersonal relationships, teamwork, project and total quality management, design, construction, manufacturing, engineering economics, organizational structures, business accounting, law, ethics, consulting, and marketing. Engineering Your Future concludes with the future world of work, paradigms, and leadership.
Acknowledgments xxvii
List of Abbreviations xxix
Chapter 1 Introduction: Engineering and the Engineer 1
Chapter 2 Leading and Managing: Getting Your Personal House in Order 27
Chapter 3 Communicating to Make Things Happen 73
Chapter 4 Developing Relationships 123
Chapter 5 Project Management: Planning, Executing, and Closing 167
Chapter 6 Project Management: Critical Path Method and Scope Creep 195
Chapter 7 Quality: What Is It and How Do We Achieve It? 231
Chapter 8 Design: To Engineer Is to Create 269
Chapter 9 Building: Constructing and Manufacturing 283
Chapter 10 Basic Accounting: Tracking the Past and Planning the Future 299
Chapter 11 Legal Framework 329
Chapter 12 Ethics: Dealing with Dilemmas 353
Chapter 13 Role and Selection of Consultants 381
Chapter 14 Marketing: A Mutually-Beneficial Process 403
Chapter 15 The Future and You 431
Appendix A: Engineering your Future Supports ABET Basic Level Criterion 3 455
Appendix B: Engineering Your Future Supports ABET Program Criteria for Civil and Similarly-Named Engineering Programs 457
Appendix C: Engineering Your Future Supports the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge 459
Index 461
About the Author 469
