Real-World Engineering: A Guide to Achieving Career Success

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 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; and achieving career fulfillment.