Engineering Your Future: Comprehensive

Engineering Your Future: Comprehensive

<em>Engineering Your Future: A Comprehensive Introduction to Engineering</em>, Eighth 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. <em>Engineering Your Future </em>clarifies those options and directs students down the path to a rewarding career in the engineering field. With exceptionally broad coverage, the book provides instructors unparalleled flexibility in any introductory course.<br><br>A companion website for the book, containing PowerPoint-based lecture notes and images from the book for professors, is available online at www.oup.com/us/oakes.<br><br><em>Engineering Your Future</em> is also available in a brief edition containing the most popular chapters from this comprehensive edition. For more information on that title, please visit its website at http://global.oup.com/ushe/product/engineering-your-future-9780199348053?q=oakes%20engineering&lang=en&cc=us. <br><br><strong>Key Features</strong><br>· Introduces students to the <strong>broad spectrum of engineering disciplines</strong>, with up-to-date data on degrees granted, employment opportunities, and salaries<br>· Highlights the <strong>ethical responsibilities</strong> of engineers<br>· Focuses on developing <strong>problem-solving and communication skills</strong> that are critical to success both in the classroom and in the working world <br>· Introduces a <strong>design methodology</strong> that can be used immediately and in subsequent design courses <br>· Provides a<strong> handy review of units and conversions, mathematics, and engineering fundamentals</strong><br><br><strong>New to this Edition</strong><br>· A new Appendix A features <strong>"Nine Excel Skills Every Engineering Student Should Know"</strong><br>· Chapter 13 on <strong>technical communication skills</strong> has been completely revised and updated<br>· Updated <strong>statistics for the job market</strong> provide critical data to help inform students' career decisions