Real-World Engineering: A Guide to Achieving Career Success

By Lawrence J. Kamm

This book helps readers cultivate natural abilities, adapt to on-the-job pressure, cope with people problems, broaden their knowledge base, and, above all, plan a genuinely rewarding and successful engineering career. Throughout the book, real-world examples, taken from the author's own career, depict both the best and the worst on-the-job decision-making.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0879422793
• ISBN13: 9780879422790
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Wiley-IEEE Press
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.5" x 6.1"

Customer Reviews

Great book

I first read this book in 1996. It served me with a good survey of the road ahead. Now, 12 years later, the advice is as fresh as it was then. If you are just starting out in engineering, this book can give you a view of different paths to take and also help you avoid pitfalls.

Stories from the Front Lines

Mr. Kamm's book is a collection of wisdom, ideas, and strategies for the engineer and entrepreneur. He shares stories of success, setbacks, and innovation. I read the book some years ago, but the reason I most enjoy it now is when considering difficuties I am going through in my own career. Like most professions engineering will bring you frustrations as well as triumphs, and I enjoy seeing how a fellow designer delt with close-minded managers, tight deadlines, small budgets, and took blows as well as wins. In issues both social and technical, the author has fun telling stories of his career, and may prepare you for challenges you haven't thought of yet!

comments of an amatuer engineer

As a physician - inventor of surgical instruments and devices, I found this book an excellent basic reference as to engineering concepts and applications. I enjoy the author's wry sense of humor and efforts to make some complicated prosesses readily digestible. I think this would be an excellent text for a college -level course and believe it would influence students to enter the engineering world in a more formal manner.