Burke Technical Career Survival Handbook

100 Things You Need To Know
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-0-12-809611-6
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 284 Seiten

Technical Career Survival Handbook: 100 Things You Need To Know provides the information needed to survive a technical career, enabling prospective technical career candidates and those currently in technical careers to explore all technical education possibilities, industries, disciplines, and specialties. This handbook better equips the reader to deal with the tough situations and decisions they have to make throughout their career. Topics include preparing for the workforce, employment challenges, and dealing with on the job situations. This book is a practical guidebook for scientists, engineers, and technicians who apply the principles of science and mathematics to develop practical solutions to technical problems. - Offers insights on how to pursue and navigate a technical career - Discusses job searches, interviews, offers, and counteroffers - Includes day-to-day, in the trenches, job situations that may arise and best practices on how to address them

His background includes many years in engineering design, development and management for major manufacturers of rotating equipment: Hamilton Sundstrand, Div. United Technology Corp., General Electric Gas Turbine, Sundstrand Corporation, KAESER Compressors and Worthington (Ingersoll Dresser) Pumps. During the last 25 years, Mr. Burke focused on consulting engineering and contributed to successful installations of dust collection systems, pumps and compressors, turbines, separators, scrubbers, field fabricated tanks, filtration systems and more. Projects ranged from minor retrofits to $60 million dollar 'Greenfield” facilities and to $800 million dollar gas turbine power plant installations. Authored a number of technical articles. A partial list includes: 'Intercoolers/Aftercoolers”, Chemical Engineering Magazine, 'Ten Steps to Cost Savings” Plant Services Magazine, 'Haz/Rad Wastewater pumping Solutions”, Pumps and Systems Magazine, 'Piping Tie-in, the Basics”, Plant Services Magazine, 'Avoiding Mistakes in Compressor Selection”, The 1990 Plant Engineering Yearbook.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Burke, Peter Y.