Learning Engineering Practice

Learning Engineering Practice

by James Trevelyan
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 29/12/2025

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This is an essential, easy-to-read guide for students, early-career engineers, supervisors, and human resources professionals. It is written by one of the world's leading authorities on global engineering practices with decades of research, 40 years of teaching engineering, and 50 years of working as a professional engineer in several countries. This guide will teach essential engineering soft skills and specialized capabilities to work as an engineer that universities cannot teach. The author also explores how to gain a job as a new engineer and delves into how engineers gain access to informal technical knowledge, the experience of other engineers, how to gain the willing collaboration of others to make things happen, and how to work safely in hazardous environments. This book also lists effective ways to use the latest digital collaboration tools and artificial intelligence apps, as well as how to estimate costs, generate commercial value, and develop cost-effective sustainable solutions. Lastly, it shows how to understand and navigate the complex working systems and social cultures of engineering firms in a globalized market for engineering services.

ISBN:
9781040802823
9781040802823
Category:
Technology: general issues
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
29-12-2025
Language:
English
Publisher:
CRC Press
James Trevelyan

James Trevelyan is Professor of Mechanical Engineering at The University of Western Australia. He is best-known for pioneering sheep-shearing robots, remote access laboratories, and landmine clearance methods. He won the pre-eminent award for robotics-the Engelberger Science and Technology Award-in 1993.

An expert in the theory of engineering practice, Trevelyan has won several national awards for teaching excellence and awards for papers on engineering education. He is author of "The Making of an Expert Engineer" (CRC Press, 2014) which summarises his pioneering research on how engineering work is actually performed.

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