Becoming a Technical Professional
Edition: 3
Copyright: 2006
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Becoming A Technical Professional is written to help your first-year engineering students become technical professionals to meet the needs of people.
Both personal growth and technical skills are stressed throughout supporting a set of five learning objectives:
- How to use the design process to meet an expressed need.
- How to become an effective team member.
- How to become an effective communicator.
- How to create a career plan and develop the personal management skills necessary to become a self-reliant professional.
- How to understand the fundamental principles that support learning and become a life-long learner.
The included companion book, Becoming an Engineer & Teaming on Design Projects, gives students the opportunity to apply their design, teamwork, and communication skills. If you would like to order the text, Becoming a Technical Professional, without the companion book, please go to www.kendallhunt.com/bailey_johnson_text
Becoming a Technical Professional
Chapter 1: Engineering Design Overview
Chapter 2: Problem Formulation
Chapter 3: Problem Solving
Chapter 4: Solution Implementation
Chapter 5: The Art and Science of Creativity
Chapter 6: Project Management
Chapter 7: Understanding Teams
Chapter 8: Working on Teams
Chapter 9: Principles of Communication
Chapter 10: Technical Reports and Presentations
Chapter 11: Navigating the Career Path
Chapter 12: Launching a Career
Chapter 13: An Engineer’s Responsibility to Society
Chapter 14: Learning How to Learn
Chapter 15: Towards Becoming a Learning Professional
Index
Becoming an Engineer & Teaming on Design Projects
Chapter 1: Design Using Experimentation
Chapter 2: Designing to Control Variability
Chapter 3: Waterwheel Design
Chapter 4: Tractor Design
Chapter 5: Solar Oven Design
Chapter 6: Wind Turbine Design
Chapter 7: Introduction to Statistics
Chapter 8: Principles of Mechanics
Appendix: Word Processing and Spreadsheets
Reid Bailey, Ph.D. is a Professor of Systems Engineering at the University of Virginia, where he also serves as Founding Director of the UVA in Argentina and UVA in Sweden study abroad programs and Director of the Rodman Scholars Program. He earned a B.S.E. from Duke University and both an M.S. and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Bailey's teaching and research focus on engineering design education, systems thinking, sustainability, and industrial ecology. He is widely recognized for integrating real-world, client-based design projects into engineering curricula, leading interdisciplinary educational initiatives, and mentoring student design teams.