Real-world Engineering: A Guide To Career Success

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Real-World Engineering A Guide to Achieving Career Success Lawrence J. Kamm In whatever field of engineering you practice, Real-World Engineering will help you cultivate your natural abilities, adapt to on-the-job pressure, cope with people problems, broaden your knowledge base, and, above all, plan a genuinely rewarding—and successful—engineering career. The development of qualitative skills necessary for surviving, and excelling, in the world of engineering is the focus of this book. Throughout the book, real-world examples, taken from the author’s own career, depict both the best and the worst in on-the-job decision-making. Drawing on more than 45 years’ experience as a professional engineer and entrepreneur, Lawrence J. Kamm shows aspiring and practicing engineers how to be successful by

• producing the best designs possible
• causing proposed designs to be accepted and used
• becoming well rewarded in money, position, and job security
• achieving career fulfillment

IEEE Order Number: PP0273-3 Also of Interest Units and Conversion Charts A Handbook for Engineers and Scientists by Theodore Wildi, Professor Emeritus of Laval University IEEE Order Number: PP0267-5 ISBN 0-87942-273-4 1991 Softcover 96 pp Conversions can be a pleasure and not a chore when you put this handy reference to work. It contains 62 charts—covering virtually every field of scientific endeavor—which are based on values published by the foremost authoritative sources, such as ANSI, ISO, and the IEEE. Conversion factors are presented in a particularly lucid way, with effective use of color and graphics.