Electronics: Project Management and Design (With CD-ROM)

This book fills the fundamental void in professional settings where apprentices lack experience for their first electronic projects on the job. The strategies established in the book will supply readers with practical tools that will enhance their ability to perform. The book accomplishes this by reviewing the operations of a company, discussing teamwork and the role of the Electronics Professional, presenting methods of Project Management, defining an Engineering Problem Solving process, and discussing the practical aspects of an electronics project. Electronics: Project Design and Management covers material as a project completed in a professional environment with specific applications of concurrent engineering principles. It also includes discussions of each stage of an electronics project from it's inception to conclusion. A Six-Step Problem Solving is applied to solving the electronic project design problem with an emphasis on the complete definition of the problem and the development of a conclusion. Useful to engineering professionals seeking a primer on practical issues which may be encountered on their first jobs.

Key Features and Benefits:

• The information is discussed as an actual design project is completed.
  This project is used as an ongoing example throughout the text.
• Each chapter begins with an introduction highlighting the topics to be covered, including in-chapter examples, and containing end-of-chapter summaries and problems to check for understanding.
• The text covers a six-step process for solving engineering problems that provides a logical sequence for students to follow when they develop a project in the electronics field.
• A free 120-day evaluation version of Microsoft Project 2000 is packaged with each text. Readers have an opportunity to practice using Microsoft Project with chapter exercises, enabling them to become conversant with this powerful project management software tool.