Guide for Creating a Winning Engineering Project

Engineering Project Management is a practical, step-by-step guide to project management for engineers. The author describes the techniques and strategies for creating a successful engineering project.

The book introduces engineering projects and their management, and then proceeds stage-by-stage through the engineering life-cycle project, from requirements, implementation, to phase-out. The book offers information for understanding the needs of the end-user of a product and other stakeholders associated with a project and is full of techniques based on real, hands-on management of engineering projects. 

The book starts by explaining how we perform the actual engineering on projects; the techniques for project management contained in the rest of the book use those engineering methods to create superior management techniques. Every topic – from developing a work-breakdown structure and an effective project plan, to creating credible predictions for schedules and costs, through monitoring the progress of your engineering project – is infused with actual engineering techniques, thereby vastly increasing the effectivity and credibility of those management techniques.

Back to Square One

Engineering Entrepreneurship from Idea to Business Plan is for engineers and scientists interested in both creating new products and starting a business plan to sell them. Technology-based business plan contests with large monetary awards have been cropping up worldwide, which is a clear indication that many wealthy investors are on the lookout for innovative, technology-based businesses. This text shows how to sharpen a new idea and turn it into a useful commercial product, conduct patent research and complete a provisional patent application, and collect the requisite data, prepare a business model and create a business plan with projected cash flow.

On the Cusp of Graduation

This book has been developed with an intellectual framework to focus on the challenges and specific qualities applicable to graduates on the threshold of their careers. Young professionals have to establish their competence in complying with multifaceted sets of ethical, environmental, social, and technological parameters. This competence has a vital impact on the curricula of higher education programs because professional bodies today rely on accredited degrees as the main route for membership. 

Consequently, this four-part book makes a suitable resource for a two-semester undergraduate course in professional practice and career development in universities and colleges. With its comprehensive coverage of a large variety of topics, each part of the book can be used as a reference for other related courses where sustainability, systems thinking, professional practice and career development are evidence and increasingly visible. 

The Craft of the Stage Manager

Stage Manager: The Professional Experience–Refreshed takes the reader on a journey through all aspects of the craft of stage management in theatre, including the technological advancements that have come to the theatre and the stage manager’s job. Chapters are laid out to reflect the order in which stage managers experience and perform their work: what makes a good stage manager, seeking the job, building a resume, interviewing for the job, and getting the job (or not getting the job).

Included are chapters on the chain of command, working relationships, tools and supplies, creating charts, plots, plans and lists, the rehearsal period, creating the prompt book, calling cues, and the run of the show. These are just some of the many topics covered in this book. In addition, the author uses interviews with professionals in various stages of production, providing another view of how the stage manager is perceived and what is expected from the work of the stage managers.

Learn to Fit for any Body

The ultimate reference for fitting test garments and transferring accurate adjustments to patterns. No matter what size or shape you are, wearing garments that fit perfectly makes you look and feel better. Rather than making commonly accepted changes to a commercial pattern, the method presented in this guide focuses on the way a test garment fits the body. The fabric is manipulated to improve the fit, and then those specific changes are made to the pattern. This method is not a quick one, but the result—patterns that fit perfectly—is well worth the time and effort. 

You’ll learn:

      • the importance of a fitting axis and how to use it during a fitting
      • how to recognize fitting issues, such as draglines and folds
      • how to manipulate fabric to solve common and unusual fitting problems
      • how to transfer the fitting changes to your pattern easily
      • basic patternmaking skills to ensure accurate alterations

Ethical Dilemmas in the Modern Era

In the modern era, each new innovation poses its own special ethical dilemma. How can human society adapt to these new forms of expression, commerce, government, citizenship, and learning while holding onto its ethical and moral principles?

The Changing Scope of Technoethics in Contemporary Society is a critical scholarly resource that examines the existing intellectual platform within the field of technoethics. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as ethical perspectives on internet safety, technoscience, and ethical hacking communication, this book is geared towards academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on domains of technoethics.

A Theatre Guide from First Meeting to Final Performance

The Stage Manager’s Toolkit provides a comprehensive account of the role of the stage manager for live theatre with a focus on both written and verbal communication best practices. The book outlines the duties of the stage manager and assistant stage manager throughout a production, discussing not only what to do but why. The book identifies communication objectives for each phase of production, paperwork to be created, and the necessary questions to be answered in order to ensure success. 

New features to this edition include:

      • updated paperwork samples;
      • expanded discussion of verbal and nonverbal communication practices;
      • additional information on digital communication tools
      • further detail on the role of the ASM;
      • a new chapter on stage management training.

Developing Mathematical Practices Grades 3-10

Making Number Talks Matter is about the myriad decisions facing teachers as they make this fifteen-minute daily routine a vibrant and vital part of their mathematics instruction. Throughout the book, Cathy Humphreys and Ruth Parker offer practical ideas for using Number Talks to help students learn to reason numerically and build a solid foundation for the study of mathematics. This book will be an invaluable resource if you are already using Number Talks or not; whether you are an elementary, middle school, high school, or college teacher; or even if you are a parent wanting to support your child with mathematics. 

Using insight gained from many years of doing Number Talks with students of all ages, Cathy and Ruth address questions to ask during Number Talks, teacher moves that turn the thinking over to students, the mathematics behind the various strategies, and ways to overcome bumps in the road. If you’ve been looking for ways to transform your mathematics classroom—to bring sense-making and divergent thinking to the foreground, to bring the Standards for Mathematical Practice to life, and to bring joy back into your instruction—this book if for you.

A Comprehensive Introduction to Engineering

A balanced and accessible overview of engineering for beginning students. This ninth edition is an authoritative guide to the academic expectations and professional opportunities in engineering, a field that is both academically rigorous and creatively demanding. Today’s engineering students are faced with endless career opportunities. Engineering Your Future clarifies those options and directs students down the path to a rewarding career in the engineering field. Featuring exceptionally broad coverage, it offers instructors unparalleled flexibility for any introductory course.

New to this edition:

      • A rewritten Chapter 1, “The Heritage of Engineering,” encourages students to appreciate the rich and inclusive heritage of engineering and to think about how much our daily lives are impacted by engineering
      • Chapter 2, “Engineering Majors,” reflects current technological advances, including mobile computing and nanotechnology
      • Chapter 3, “A Statistical Profile of the Engineering Profession,” provides the latest available data on the job market, college enrollment trends, and diversity within the profession
      • A completely updated Chapter 10, “Teamwork,” includes new examples from today’s leading companies including Netflix, Tesla Motors, and Google
      • A significantly expanded section on programming in “Appendix C: An Introduction to MATLAB” serves as a starting point for students learning code

Engineering Success

Engineers are recognized for their uncanny ability to create magnificent blueprints, technical machinery, elegant plans, or complex circuits in their efforts to bring brilliant and dynamic designs to the world. At the same time, those amazing process-oriented and specific-outcomes skills don’t always transfer to their own career-planning abilities. Engineer Your Own Success is a comprehensive, easy-to-read book that provides the missing links that engineers and other technical specialists need to implement daily, allowing them to be successful in their careers, their professional development, and their personal lives. In this valuable career-building “how to” guide, discover ways to: 

      • find the right mentor and get the most of the relationship
      • obtain the credentials needed to easily reach your goals
      • become an effective communicator
      • network your way to impactful relationships
      • get and stay organized in a way that will increase productivity

In addition, find out why goal-setting is important; discover simple strategies to pass critical examinations the first time around; learn how to become a terrific public speaker and team leader.