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, 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.

Note continued: The Words "Engineer" and "Create" -- Closing Thoughts About Design -- Cited Sources -- Annotated Bibliography -- Exercises -- ch. 9 Building: Constructing and Manufacturing -- The Engineer as Builder -- Constructing -- Importance of Constructing -- What Gets Constructed and How? -- Roles of Engineers in Constructing -- Trends in Constructing -- Manufacturing -- Importance of Manufacturing -- What Gets Manufactured and How? -- Roles of Engineers in Manufacturing -- Trends in Manufacturing -- Differences between Constructing and Manufacturing -- Closing Thoughts about Constructing and Manufacturing -- Cited Sources -- Annotated Bibliography -- Exercises -- ch. 10 Basic Accounting: Tracking the Past and Planning the Future -- Relevance of Accounting to the Engineer -- The Balance Sheet: How Much Is It Worth? -- Personal Balance Sheet -- Business Balance Sheet -- 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 -- Estimating the Necessary Net Worth at the End of Your Earning Phase -- Accumulating the Necessary Net Worth by t…