James Trevelyan

Learning Engineering Practice (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book explains engineering practice, what engineers actually do in their work. This book has been written for engineering students, graduates and novice engineers. Engineering schools will find the book helpful to help students prepare for professional internships and also for creating authentic practice and assessment exercises.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 194
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000289336
• Artikelnr.: 60689434

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 - Preparations for an engineer: 1 Engineering: doing more with less
2 Engineering practice
3 Seeking paid engineering work
4 Neglected perception skills
5 Listening
6 Reading documents
7 Reading people
8 Seeing and creativity. Part 2 - Workplace learning: 9 Learning the ropes
10 Engineering knowledge
11 Knowledge is a social network
12 Making things happen
13 Working safely
14 Making big things happen
15 Generating value in the enterprise
16 Estimating costs
17 Navigating social culture
18 Sustainability
19 Time management
20 Frustrations
Epilogue - next steps.