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 32 different branches of engineering,
Is There an Engineer Inside You? is packed with suggestions and has tremendous advice on thriving in an engineering student environment.
You will learn:
* Why you already have the ability to be an engineer.
* Why an engineering education is so valuable.
* What the differences are between each branch of engineering.
* How you can succeed in engineering school.
* How much money you can make.
* How women and minorities are getting ahead in engineering.
* How you can change the world as an engineer.
* What non-mainstream engineers can do for a living.
Blast-off with:
* Real-life success stories to motivate and inspire you.
* Web sites galore to put you on technology's cutting edge.
* Lists of resources and contact information about careers in engineering to save you time and hassle.
This manual is an indispensable guide to the engineering marketplace
You can be the engineer of your dreams!
Celeste Baine is a biomedical engineer, Director of the Engineering Education Service Center and the award-winning author of over twenty books and booklets 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 2004 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. She has spent the past decade advising students and parents on the challenges and benefits of obtaining an engineering degree.