Converting Graduates into Engineers
Guidance and real answers for students contemplating a career in engineering and for recent graduates wanting some help in their quest to become Professional Engineers. Based on the author's personal experiences, starting in high school, through university and 30 years thereafter, while working as a civil and structural engineer first in South Africa and then in the United States of America. Once working, there were many �Aha!� moments that shape the work philosophy of an engineer. Those are the basic principles which guide you through complex tasks in the most efficient manner. They are hard-earned and sometimes expensive lessons that teach you what no course will. One of the more important lessons, that it is cheaper to learn from other people�s experience than from your own, is what this book is all about. These writings allow you to acquire one engineer�s insights without incurring the underlying costs and pain, to add to your own and to those you are able to glean from other sources.
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Converting Graduates into Engineers
Guidance and real answers for students contemplating a career in engineering and for recent graduates wanting some help in their quest to become Professional Engineers. Based on the author's personal experiences, starting in high school, through university and 30 years thereafter, while working as a civil and structural engineer first in South Africa and then in the United States of America. Once working, there were many �Aha!� moments that shape the work philosophy of an engineer. Those are the basic principles which guide you through complex tasks in the most efficient manner. They are hard-earned and sometimes expensive lessons that teach you what no course will. One of the more important lessons, that it is cheaper to learn from other people�s experience than from your own, is what this book is all about. These writings allow you to acquire one engineer�s insights without incurring the underlying costs and pain, to add to your own and to those you are able to glean from other sources.
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Converting Graduates into Engineers

Converting Graduates into Engineers

by Michael Veegh
Converting Graduates into Engineers

Converting Graduates into Engineers

by Michael Veegh

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Guidance and real answers for students contemplating a career in engineering and for recent graduates wanting some help in their quest to become Professional Engineers. Based on the author's personal experiences, starting in high school, through university and 30 years thereafter, while working as a civil and structural engineer first in South Africa and then in the United States of America. Once working, there were many �Aha!� moments that shape the work philosophy of an engineer. Those are the basic principles which guide you through complex tasks in the most efficient manner. They are hard-earned and sometimes expensive lessons that teach you what no course will. One of the more important lessons, that it is cheaper to learn from other people�s experience than from your own, is what this book is all about. These writings allow you to acquire one engineer�s insights without incurring the underlying costs and pain, to add to your own and to those you are able to glean from other sources.

Product Details

BN ID: 2940016125367
Publisher: CTE Press
Publication date: 12/12/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Michael Veegh is a licensed Professional Engineer, born 1961 in Austria. He grew up in Switzerland and later South Africa, where he attended the Deutsche Schule Johannesburg. In 1983 he graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg with a BSc (Eng) Civil degree and went to work as a structural design engineer. In 1985 he relocated to San Jose, California and started to work on long span bridges. In 1993, he finished an MBA at the University of Rhode Island.

He is the founder and president of Construction Technologies & Engineering, Inc., a firm specializing in structural and construction engineering, with an emphasis on long span bridges.

At heart, he is an engineer, designer, builder, inventor, problem solver, history buff and writer. He is married to Jean, has two boys and lives in Rhode Island, in a house he designed and contracted himself. When he can find the time, he likes to run, swim, play soccer and ski.
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