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E-grāmata: Learning Engineering Practice [Taylor & Francis e-book]

(The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia)
  • Formāts: 176 pages, 60 Illustrations, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 18-Dec-2020
  • Izdevniecība: CRC Press
  • ISBN-13: 9781003128212
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  • Formāts: 176 pages, 60 Illustrations, black and white
  • Izdošanas datums: 18-Dec-2020
  • Izdevniecība: CRC Press
  • ISBN-13: 9781003128212
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This book explains engineering practice, what engineers actually do in their work. The first part explains how to find paid engineering work and prepare for an engineering career. The second part explains the fundamentals of engineering practice, including how to gain access to technical knowledge, how to gain the willing collaboration of other people to make things happen, and how to work safely in hazardous environments. Other chapters explain engineering aspects of project management missed in most courses, how to create commercial value from engineering work and estimate costs, and how to navigate cultural complexities successfully. Later chapters provide guidance on sustainability, time management and avoiding the most common frustrations encountered by engineers at work. This book has been written for engineering students, graduates and novice engineers. Supervisors, mentors and human resources professionals will also find the book helpful to guide early-career engineers and assess their progress. Engineering schools will find the book helpful to help students prepare for professional internships and also for creating authentic practice and assessment exercises.

Preface xi
Author biography xv
Acknowledgements xvii
PART 1 Preparation for an engineering career
1(54)
1 Engineering: doing more with less
3(11)
Transforming the planet
6(2)
Engineering disciplines
8(6)
2 Engineering practice
14(5)
How to use this book
17(2)
3 Seeking paid engineering work
19(11)
Fear of failure
19(1)
Stage 1 Preparation
20(2)
Step 1 Create your job-seeking diary, build your job-seeking contact list
20(1)
Step 2 Start building your network of contacts
20(1)
Step 3 Prepare your resume and online profiles
20(1)
Common mistakes
21(1)
Review your online presence
21(1)
Key attributes
21(1)
Leadership
21(1)
Teamwork
22(1)
Initiative
22(1)
Persistence
22(1)
Reliability and responsibility
22(1)
Local work experience
22(1)
Ability to learn from experience
22(1)
Step 4 Expand your engineering knowledge: research suppliers
22(1)
Step 5 Expanding your knowledge and skills
23(2)
Standards
24(1)
Programming
24(1)
Contractors
24(1)
Material, labour, and component costs
24(1)
Logistics
25(1)
Economics
25(1)
Predictions
25(1)
Stage 2 Visit engineering suppliers and potential employers
25(4)
Step 6 Planning
26(1)
Step 7 Visiting engineering suppliers
26(1)
Step 8 Continue researching new job opportunities
27(1)
Step 9 Visiting a prospective employer
28(1)
Step 10 Follow-up opportunities and consider starting your own business
28(1)
Relocating for opportunities?
29(1)
4 Neglected perception skills
30(5)
Perceiving reality
31(3)
Prior knowledge influences perception
34(1)
5 Listening
35(7)
Practice exercise: observing listening lapses
36(1)
Active listening and paraphrasing
37(1)
Writing accurate notes
37(1)
Contextual listening
38(1)
Helping others to listen
39(1)
An imperfect, interactive, interpretation performance
40(1)
More listening and note-taking exercises
40(2)
6 Reading documents
42(5)
Practice exercise: reading documents to learn from them
43(1)
Practice exercise: written requirements
44(3)
7 Reading people
47(4)
Avoid email and text messages for sensitive conversations
49(2)
8 Seeing and creativity
51(4)
Why is sketching so difficult?
52(1)
Practice exercise: evaluate your seeing skills
52(3)
PART 2 Workplace learning
55(110)
9 Learning the ropes
57(6)
10 Engineering knowledge
63(7)
Knowledge and information
63(1)
Types of knowledge
64(4)
Explicit, codified, propositional knowledge
64(1)
Procedural knowledge
64(1)
Implicit knowledge
65(1)
Tacit knowledge
65(2)
Embodied knowledge
67(1)
Contextual knowledge
68(1)
Knowledge transfer
68(1)
Acquiring new knowledge--learning
69(1)
11 Knowledge is a social network
70(10)
Mapping knowledge
71(4)
Distributed knowledge
75(3)
Distributed cognition
78(2)
12 Making things happen
80(9)
Step 1 Finding a peer
81(2)
Step 2 discovery, organisation
83(1)
Step 3 monitoring--another discovery performance
84(3)
Contriving casual encounters
86(1)
Step 4 Completion and handover
87(1)
Informal leadership, face to face
87(1)
Social culture
88(1)
Practice exercise--knowledge network mapping
88(1)
13 Working safely
89(7)
Identify hazards
89(2)
Identify hazardous events
91(1)
Identify likelihood, consequences, and risks
91(1)
Risk control measures
91(2)
First steps
93(1)
Cultural influences
93(1)
Human behaviour
94(2)
14 Making big things happen
96(16)
Information, knowledge, and diversity
97(1)
Project life cycle
98(3)
Project planning
101(1)
Negotiate and define the scope of work, calculate the time schedule
101(3)
Specifications
104(3)
Test specification
104(1)
Method specification
105(1)
Inspection and testing plans
106(1)
Responsibility for inspections and testing
107(1)
Risk analysis and management
107(1)
Approvals
107(1)
Final Investment Decision (FID) approval
108(1)
Monitoring progress--continuous learning
108(2)
Completing the project
110(2)
15 Generating value
112(10)
Innovation, research and development (1)
114(1)
Product differentiation (2)
115(1)
Efficiency improvements (3)
115(1)
Reducing technical uncertainties (4)
115(1)
Performance forecasts (5)
116(1)
Inspection, testing, and design checking (6)
116(1)
Project and design reviews (7)
116(1)
Compliance with standards (8)
116(1)
Reliable technical coordination (9)
116(1)
Teaching, building skills (10)
117(1)
Social licence to operate: co-creating value with communities (11)
117(1)
Sustainment: operations, asset management, and maintenance (12)
117(1)
Environmental protection (13)
118(1)
Defence and security (14)
118(1)
Small and medium enterprises
118(2)
Product and process improvement, research and development, and anticipating future developments
118(1)
Collaboration
119(1)
Business development research and understanding customer needs
119(1)
Cost monitoring, control, and reduction
119(1)
Risk management and reducing uncertainties
120(1)
Balancing value generation with cost
120(1)
Quantifying value generation
120(1)
Learning more
121(1)
16 Estimating costs
122(6)
Estimating
122(2)
Labour cost
124(2)
What does it cost to employ you?
126(1)
Low-income countries
127(1)
17 Navigating social culture
128(10)
What's different?
129(6)
1 Respect for authority
129(2)
2 Navigating the labyrinth of social power
131(1)
3 Misunderstandings on labour cost
131(2)
4 Documentation and organisational procedures
133(1)
5 Language barriers
133(1)
6 Centralised decision-making
134(1)
7 Access to financial information
134(1)
8 Learning from specialised engineering suppliers
135(1)
Some products can succeed
135(1)
Think in terms of value generation
136(1)
Outsourcing
137(1)
Opportunities
137(1)
18 Sustainability
138(1)
Climate change
139(2)
UN sustainable development goals
141(1)
Overcoming resistance to change
142(2)
Renewable energy
144(1)
Efficiency gains, new ideas, or behaviour change?
144(1)
Opportunities
145(2)
19 Time management
147(6)
Understand daily physiological patterns
148(1)
Classify tasks
148(1)
Adapt your schedule
149(1)
Keep records
149(1)
Schedule major tasks
150(1)
Allocate time to help others
150(1)
Say "no" by saying "yes"
150(1)
Defer or delegate: documentation and filing is the key
151(1)
Unforeseen disruptions, avoiding overwork
152(1)
20 Frustrations
153(12)
Frustration 1 Working hard is not getting me anywhere
153(1)
Frustration 2 I can't get a job without experience and advertised jobs require experience
154(1)
Frustration 3 Admin, meetings, accounts, and procedures: this is not what I was educated for
155(1)
Frustration 4 This job does not have enough intellectual challenges for me
156(1)
Frustration 5 Has this been done before?
157(1)
Frustration 6 Constrained by standards?
158(1)
Frustration 7 Yearning for hands-on work
159(1)
Frustration 8 I can't get other people to understand my ideas
159(1)
Frustration 9 This company is run by accountants
160(1)
Frustration 10 They always cut the maintenance budget first
161(1)
Frustration 11 They are only interested in the lowest price
161(1)
Frustration 12 Net Present Value (NPV) shows the project is fine--why don't they approve it?
162(1)
Frustration 13 My skills and knowledge are only valued in rich countries
162(1)
Frustration 14 I would much prefer a job where I could do something to help people
163(1)
Frustration 15 My emails go unanswered
163(2)
Epilogue -next steps 165(2)
Online Appendices 167(2)
Index 169
Emeritus Professor James Trevelyan is an engineer, educator, researcher and recently became a start-up entrepreneur. He is CEO of Close Comfort, a tech start-up introducing new energy saving, low emissions air conditioning technology to Australia, Indonesia, Pakistan, and other countries with a large potential global market. His research on engineering practice helped define Engineers Australia professional competencies for chartered engineers. His book "The Making of an Expert Engineer" and advances in understanding how engineers contribute commercial value are influencing the future of engineering education in universities and workplaces. Another book, "30 Second Engineering", is helping to build greater awareness of the key importance of engineering and will reach a global audience. He is best known internationally for pioneering research that resulted in sheep shearing robots from 1975 till 1993 and for the first industrial robot that could be remotely operated via the internet in 1994. He received the leading international award for robotics research, equivalent to the Fields medal in mathematics. In 2018 he was awarded West Australian of the Year in the professions category in recognition of his achievements.
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