Engineering your future : the professional practice of engineering
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, an...
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Hoboken, New Jersey :
John Wiley & Sons ,
c2012
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| Edition: | 3rd ed |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction : engineering and the engineer
- 2. Leading and manager : getting your personal house in order
- 3. Communicating to make things happen
- 4. Developing relationships
- 5. Project management : planning, executing, and closing
- 6. Project management : critical path method and scope creep
- 7. Quality : what is it and how do we achieve it?
- 8. Design : to engineer is to create
- 9. Building : constructing and manufacturing
- 10. Basic accounting : tracking the past and planning the future
- 11. Legal framework
- 12. Ethics : dealing with dilemmas
- 13. Role and selection of consultants
- 14. Marketing : a mutually-beneficial process
- 15. The future and you