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Summary: Must Have Book For ANY Student!
Review: I wish I had this book when I was in college! It's designed for engineering students but has value for any student who could use tips on networking, studying and teamwork. I think this should be a required textbook for all Introduction to Engineering classes!
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Summary: Must Have Book For ANY Student!
Review: I wish I had this book when I was in college! It's designed for engineering students but has value for any student who could use tips on networking, studying and teamwork. I think this should be a required textbook for all Introduction to Engineering classes!
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Summary: An Honest, Competent Piece of Work
Review: If a recent engineer with his bachelor's degree came to me for a job with this book in tow I would be impressed. I would advise him to continue to mine the book for nuggets as he advanced in his career. Practicing engineers who are shadowed, engineers with interns and engineers doing bring-your-child-to-work presentations would get ideas from this book to pass on to their subjects. I would recommend this book to the parents of high school and middle school children who do well in math and science. I might be ambivalent about this book if I had to study it for a test because it is rather tedious. To browse is another story. It seems so natural for engineering to be studied in a historical and political economic context. If it were, it would be enlightening and much less grueling than it needs to be in relation to the actual practice of engineering in industry. This would prepare the engineer to be proactive in a way that a focus on technology alone cannot do. We say that change is the one thing that is constant but we do not prepare the engineer for change that is driven by politics and economics. Consider globalization. The transfer of production to India and China is one aspect of globalization. It moves design, applications and hotline support to these countries as well where engineers are paid $10K to $15K a year. There is no way U.S. engineers can increase their productivity 5 fold and more to be competitive with this. With laptops, cell phones and Internet we are already chained to work 24/7. We are smart guys and gals but we do not have influences of liberal education to deal with this issue in an enlightened manner. "Studying Engineering" plays it safe for not challenging the context of technical lectures, what could be done in the interstitial space that compliments technology and makes it more interesting and understandable. It deals with what successful engineering students have always done - focus on academics, limit purely social activity and use discretionary time to take advantage of the university community to practice being a professional. I am mindful that the words honest and competent are generous for a book that puts the onus on the student alone and does not consider that maybe the narrow and excruciatingly boring presentation of technology in the classroom is a problem. Compared to other books of its kind, however, "Studying Engineering" is a keeper for what it does well.
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Summary: An Honest, Competent Piece of Work
Review: If a recent engineer with his bachelor's degree came to me for a job with this book in tow I would be impressed. I would advise him to continue to mine the book for nuggets as he advanced in his career. Practicing engineers who are shadowed, engineers with interns and engineers doing bring-your-child-to-work presentations would get ideas from this book to pass on to their subjects. I would recommend this book to the parents of high school and middle school children who do well in math and science. I might be ambivalent about this book if I had to study it for a test because it is rather tedious. To browse is another story. It seems so natural for engineering to be studied in a historical and political economic context. If it were, it would be enlightening and much less grueling than it needs to be in relation to the actual practice of engineering in industry. This would prepare the engineer to be proactive in a way that a focus on technology alone cannot do. We say that change is the one thing that is constant but we do not prepare the engineer for change that is driven by politics and economics. Consider globalization. The transfer of production to India and China is one aspect of globalization. It moves design, applications and hotline support to these countries as well where engineers are paid $10K to $15K a year. There is no way U.S. engineers can increase their productivity 5 fold and more to be competitive with this. With laptops, cell phones and Internet we are already chained to work 24/7. We are smart guys and gals but we do not have influences of liberal education to deal with this issue in an enlightened manner. "Studying Engineering" plays it safe for not challenging the context of technical lectures, what could be done in the interstitial space that compliments technology and makes it more interesting and understandable. It deals with what successful engineering students have always done - focus on academics, limit purely social activity and use discretionary time to take advantage of the university community to practice being a professional. I am mindful that the words honest and competent are generous for a book that puts the onus on the student alone and does not consider that maybe the narrow and excruciatingly boring presentation of technology in the classroom is a problem. Compared to other books of its kind, however, "Studying Engineering" is a keeper for what it does well.
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Summary: foundations
Review: true, this book doesn't give much info on the technical aspect of engineering, and it doesn't claim to. This book is designed to help students get ready to confront the very rigorours road of becoming an engineer. 2 out of every 3 students that are engineering majors in college do not accomplish their goals. This book attempts to explain why and deal with that issue. It succeeds, it offers study skill and time management tools that would benifit any student in whatever dicipline. I highly reccomend this book, unless you have perfect time management skills and flawless study habits. This book might look silly to some, but I'm sure if it would have been implented in more colleges years ago that more students would have graduated from engineering school.
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Summary: foundations
Review: true, this book doesn't give much info on the technical aspect of engineering, and it doesn't claim to. This book is designed to help students get ready to confront the very rigorours road of becoming an engineer. 2 out of every 3 students that are engineering majors in college do not accomplish their goals. This book attempts to explain why and deal with that issue. It succeeds, it offers study skill and time management tools that would benifit any student in whatever dicipline. I highly reccomend this book, unless you have perfect time management skills and flawless study habits. This book might look silly to some, but I'm sure if it would have been implented in more colleges years ago that more students would have graduated from engineering school.
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