Essential Career Skills for Engineers

Today’s rapidly changing marketplace can seem like a jungle for many professionals. Engineering & Management Press offers the books needed to navigate through the wilderness of business techniques and acronyms. EMP’s titles provide practical information and proven business methods for most corporate and industrial environments. Our titles cover crucial, timely topics of importance to businesses and managers today — management, productivity improvement, quality, and related issues.What does today’s industry expect from engineers? How can the reasoning and problem-solving skills engineers possess be applied in the changing technological world? How can engineers contribute to overall customer satisfaction?

This book answers these basic questions and more. A chapter is devoted to each of six skills identified as essential in the formula for a successful engineering career. Essential Career Skills For Engineers also identifies the skills necessary to become a successful manager.

Written for students, engineers, and new managers, this book is a guide to becoming a well-rounded and more productive engineer. The authors, both registered professional engineers, have a wealth of experience combining management and engineering principles.