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Real-world engineering : a guide to achieving career success / Lawrence J. Kamm.

By: Kamm, Lawrence J [author.].
Contributor(s): Kamm, Lawrence J. Successful engineering | John Wiley & Sons [publisher.] | IEEE Xplore (Online service) [distributor.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: New York : IEEE Press, c1991Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2009]Description: 1 PDF (xiv, 233 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780470546338; 0470546336.Subject(s): Engineering -- Vocational guidance | ANSI standards | Approximation methods | Assembly systems | Biographies | Biological system modeling | Business | Business organization | Communication effectiveness | Companies | Competitive intelligence | Computational modeling | Computer architecture | Contingency management | Contracts | Costs | Debugging | Design automation | Design engineering | Design methodology | Disaster management | Documentation | Educational institutions | Employment | Encyclopedias | Engineering education | Engineering profession | Entropy | Ethics | Fabrication | Finance | Forecasting | Government | Human factors | Indexes | Iterative methods | Legal factors | Libraries | Licenses | Machinery | Maintenance engineering | Management | Manufacturing | Market opportunities | Materials | Modeling | Oral communication | Packaging | Patents | Prediction methods | Proposals | Psychology | Quality management | Registers | Reliability | Reliability engineering | Robots | Standards | Surgery | Technological innovation | Testing | Time factors | TransportationGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 620/.0023 Online resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
Preface. Introduction.INNOVATION AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN. Quantitative Design and Qualitative Design. Inventing. PEOPLE PROBLEMS. The Politics of Design. Persuasion: The Golden Art. Your Ethics. Your Career. Efficient Use of Your Time. Coexisting with Accountants. YOUR KNOWLEDGE BASE. Technical Knowledge. Consultants. Libraries and Museums. Your Company. Your Market. Your Competition. TOPICS IN DESIGN ENGINEERING. Simplicity. Iteration and Convergence to Final Design. Some Short Essays in Engineering Philosophy. Prediction as a Design Process. Specifications, Codes, Standards, Contracts, Laws, and the Law. The Pervasive Parameter: Money. Quantity Effects on Design. Reliability and Maintenance. Models and Experiments. Improving Existing Designs. Design Objectives. Entrepreneuring. Designing for Automation. The Theory of Design. The Human Interface. Approximations. Minimum Constraint Design (MCD). Design for Packaging and Shipping. Nonengineering Design. Index. About the Author.
Summary: This book helps readers cultivate natural abilities, adapt to on-the-job pressure, cope with people problems, broaden their knowledge base, and, above all, plan a genuinely rewarding and successful engineering career. Throughout the book, real-world examples, taken from the author's own career, depict both the best and the worst on-the-job decision-making.
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Rev. ed. of: Successful engineering. c1989.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface. Introduction.INNOVATION AND CONCEPTUAL DESIGN. Quantitative Design and Qualitative Design. Inventing. PEOPLE PROBLEMS. The Politics of Design. Persuasion: The Golden Art. Your Ethics. Your Career. Efficient Use of Your Time. Coexisting with Accountants. YOUR KNOWLEDGE BASE. Technical Knowledge. Consultants. Libraries and Museums. Your Company. Your Market. Your Competition. TOPICS IN DESIGN ENGINEERING. Simplicity. Iteration and Convergence to Final Design. Some Short Essays in Engineering Philosophy. Prediction as a Design Process. Specifications, Codes, Standards, Contracts, Laws, and the Law. The Pervasive Parameter: Money. Quantity Effects on Design. Reliability and Maintenance. Models and Experiments. Improving Existing Designs. Design Objectives. Entrepreneuring. Designing for Automation. The Theory of Design. The Human Interface. Approximations. Minimum Constraint Design (MCD). Design for Packaging and Shipping. Nonengineering Design. Index. About the Author.

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This book helps readers cultivate natural abilities, adapt to on-the-job pressure, cope with people problems, broaden their knowledge base, and, above all, plan a genuinely rewarding and successful engineering career. Throughout the book, real-world examples, taken from the author's own career, depict both the best and the worst on-the-job decision-making.

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