Is There an Engineer Inside You?: A Comprehensive Guide to Career Decisions in Engineering (Fifth Edition) - Softcover

Celeste Baine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692726195 ISBN 13: 9780692726198

Publisher: Engineering Education Service Center, 2016

Synopsis

Is There an Engineer Inside You? is the world’s most popular engineering career guide with over 80,000 copies sold. Now, in this new 5th edition, you will learn:

• Why you already have the ability to be an engineer
• Why an engineering education is so valuable
• The differences between each branch of engineering
• The differences between engineering and engineering technology
• How to succeed in engineering school
• How women and minorities are getting ahead in engineering
• How you can change the world as an engineer
• About sports, music, animal and sustainable engineering
• About alternatives to traditional engineering

Turn yourself into a top-notch engineering student and become a successful engineer with the ideas and information in this one-of-a-kind resource. Get yourself on the path to a challenging, rewarding, and prosperous career as an engineer by getting inside each discipline, learning the differences and making educated choices. Updated and now covering 45 different branches of engineering and engineering technology, Is There an Engineer Inside You? is packed with suggestions and has tremendous advice on thriving in an engineering student environment.

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About the Author

Celeste Baine is a biomedical engineer, and the award-winning author of over twenty books on engineering careers and education.

She won the Norm Augustine Award from the National Academy of Engineering (The Norm Augustine award is given to an engineer who has demonstrated the capacity for communicating the excitement and wonder of engineering). She also won the American Society for Engineering Education's Engineering Dean Council's Award for the Promotion of Engineering Education and Careers, and is listed on the National Engineers Week website as one of 50 engineers you should meet. The National Academy of Engineering has included Celeste in their Gallery of Women Engineers and she has been named one of the Nifty-Fifty individuals who have made a major impact on the field of engineering by the USA Science and Engineering Festival. Additionally, she wrote the training materials to help every K-12 teacher in the State of Oregon use the Engineering Design Process to enhance their teaching of science.

She has spent the past 15 years advising students and parents on the challenges and benefits of obtaining an engineering degree by providing fun and engaging presentations and workshops for schools, colleges, universities, and organizations.

Edition details

• Publisher: Engineering Education Service Center
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692726195
• ISBN 13: 9780692726198
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 224