Engineering Your Future：the professional

Engineering Your Future: The Professional Practice of Engineering, 3rdedition By Stuart G. Walesh
2012 | 504 Pages | ISBN: 047090044X | PDF | 5 MB

Round out yourtechnical engineering abilities with the business know-how you need to succeed
Technical competency, the "hard side" of engineering and othertechnical 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, andlaw 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 thenontechnical aspects of professional practice for engineering students andyoung technical professionals alike. The content is explicitly linked tocurrent efforts in the reform of engineering education including ABET'sEngineering Criteria 2000, ASCE's Body of Knowledge, and those being undertakenby AAEE, AIChE and ASME. The book treats essential nontechnical topics you'llencounter in your career, like self-management, interpersonal relationships,teamwork, project and total quality management, design, construction,manufacturing, engineering economics, organizational structures, businessaccounting, and much more. Features new to this revised editioninclude:

• 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 astudent or young practitioner starting your engineering career, EngineeringYour Future is essential reading.