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Preface to the Third Edition | |
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Technical Competency: Necessary but Not Sufficient | |
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Audiences: Students and Practitioners | |
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Organization and Content | |
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Additions and Improvements | |
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This Book and ABET Engineering Accreditation Criteria | |
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This Book and the Body of Knowledge Movement | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Cited Sources | |
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List of Abbreviations | |
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Introduction: Engineering and the Engineer | |
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The Playing Field | |
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Definitions of Engineering | |
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Leading, Managing, and Producing: Deciding, Directing, and Doing | |
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Leading, Managing, and Producing Defined | |
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The Traditional Pyramidal, Segregated Organizational Model | |
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The Shared Responsibility Organizational Model | |
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The Focus of This Book: Managing and Leading | |
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Leading Misconceptions | |
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The Seven Qualities of Effective Leaders | |
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Honesty and Integrity | |
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Vision: Reach and Teach | |
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Strategies and Tactics to Achieve the Vision | |
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Always a Student | |
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Courageous | |
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Calm in a Crisis and Chaos | |
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Creative, Innovative, Collaborative, and Synergistic | |
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The Engineer as Builder | |
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Concluding Thoughts: Common Sense, Common Practice, and Good Habits | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Leading and Managing: Getting Your Personal House in Order | |
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Start with You | |
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Time Management: But First Roles and Goals | |
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Time is a Resource | |
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Roles, Goals, and Then, and Only Then, Time Management | |
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Time Management: The Great Equalizer | |
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Time Management Tips: The ABCs | |
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A Time Management System | |
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Key Ideas about Time Management | |
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Employment or Graduate School? | |
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Full-Time Graduate Study | |
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Full-Time Employment | |
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Learn From Potential Employers | |
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The New Work Environment: Culture Shock? | |
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No Partial Credit | |
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Little Tolerance for Tardiness | |
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Assignments are Not Graded | |
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Schedules are More Complicated | |
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Higher Grooming and Dress Expectations | |
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Teamwork is Standard Operating Procedure | |
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Expect and Embrace Change | |
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The First Few Months of Practice: Make or Break Time | |
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Recognize and Draw on Generic Qualities | |
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Guard Your Reputation | |
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Learn and Respect Administrative Procedures and Structure | |
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Complete Assignments in Accordance with Expectations | |
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Get Things Done | |
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Trim Your Hedges | |
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Keep Your Supervisor Informed | |
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Speak Up and Speak Positively | |
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Dress Appropriately | |
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Hone Communication Ability | |
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Seize Opportunities for You and Your Organization | |
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Choose To Be a Winner | |
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Summing it Up | |
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Managing Personal Professional Assets: Building Individual Equity | |
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Personal Professional Assets | |
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Annual Accounting | |
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Careful Management of Personal Professional Equity | |
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Continuing Education | |
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Involvement in Professional Organizations: Taking and Giving | |
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Licensing | |
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Concluding Thoughts: Getting Your Personal House in Order | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Communicating to Make Things Happen | |
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Five Forms of Communication | |
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Three Distinctions between Writing and Speaking | |
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Single-Channel versus Multi-Channel | |
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One-Directional versus Two-Directional | |
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Conveying versus Convincing | |
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Listening: Using Ears and Eyes | |
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Be Attentive | |
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The Value of Facts and Feelings | |
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Body Language: The Silent Messenger | |
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Verify Understanding | |
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Use What Is Learned | |
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Writing Tips: How to Write to Make Things Happen | |
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Define the Purpose | |
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Profile the Audience | |
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Structure the Document to Reflect the Audience Profile | |
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Ask About Document-Writing Guidelines | |
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Start Writing on "Day 1" | |
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Get Started: Overcome Writer's Block | |
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Avoid Tin Ear | |
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Retain Some of the Outline in the Document | |
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Write Major Documents in Third Person: Mostly | |
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Employ a Gender-Neutral Style | |
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Write in an Active, Direct Manner Rather Than a Passive, Indirect Manner | |
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Recognize that Less Is More | |
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Apply Rhetorical Techniques | |
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Adopt a Flexible Format for Identifying Tables, Figures, and Sources | |
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Use Lists | |
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Design a Standard Base Map or Diagram | |
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Compose Informative Titles | |
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Establish Milestones | |
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Produce an Attractive and Appealing Document | |
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Cite All Sources | |
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Read One More Time | |
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Speaking Tips: How to Speak to Make Things Happen | |
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Conquer Reluctance to Speak: Commit to Competence | |
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Prepare the Presentation | |
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Deliver the Presentation | |
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Follow-Up the Presentation | |
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Concluding Thoughts about Writing and Speaking | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Developing Relationships | |
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Taking the Next Career Step | |
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Personality Profiles | |
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Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs | |
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The Hierarchy | |
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Application | |
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Theories X and Y | |
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Definitions | |
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Applications of Theory X and Theory Y Knowledge | |
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Dominance of Theory Ys | |
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Delegation: Why Put Off Until Tomorrow What Someone Else Can Do Today? | |
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Reasons to Delegate | |
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Reluctance to Delegate | |
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Delegation Isn't Always Down | |
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Delegation Tips | |
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Three Possible Outcomes | |
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Orchestrating Meetings | |
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Reasons to Meet | |
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When Not To Call a Meeting | |
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Tips for Successful Meetings | |
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Additional Meeting Thoughts | |
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Working with Technologists, Technicians, and Other Team Members | |
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Essential Members of the Organization | |
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Challenges Unique to Working with Varied Team Members | |
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A Dozen Tips for the Entry-Level Technical Person | |
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Selecting Co-Workers and "Managing Your Boss" | |
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Carefully Select Your "Boss" and Co-workers | |
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Seek a Mutually-Beneficial Relationship | |
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Avoid Being a "Yes" Man/Woman | |
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Caring Isn't Coddling | |
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Coaching | |
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Coaching Tips | |
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Concluding Thought | |
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Teamwork | |
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Three Teamwork Essentials | |
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Creating a Team | |
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The Forming-Storming-Norming-Performing Process | |
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Closing Thoughts about Teams | |
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Effective Professional Meeting and Conference Attendance | |
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Learning about the Conference | |
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Before the Conference | |
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At the Conference | |
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After the Conference | |
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Looking Ahead | |
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Concluding Thoughts about Developing Relationships | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Project Management: Planning, Executing, and Closing | |
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Project Broadly Defined | |
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Project Management Defined | |
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The Centrality of Project Management | |
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Relevance of Project Management to the Student and Entry-Level Technical Person | |
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Planning the Project | |
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All Projects Are Done Twice | |
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The Project Plan: | |
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Introduction | |
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Consequences of Poor or No Planning | |
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The Project Plan Avoidance Syndrome | |
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Preparing the Project Plan | |
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Principal Project Plan Elements | |
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Objectives - What Do We Want to Accomplish? | |
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Scope - How Are We Going to Do It? | |
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Risks - What Could Go Wrong? | |
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Deliverables - What Will We Provide to the Client/Owner/Customer? | |
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Milestones/Schedule - When Will We Provide the Deliverables? | |
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Tasks - What Tasks Need to be Done and in What Order to Provide the Deliverables? | |
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Resources/Budget - How Much Will the Project Cost? | |
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Directory - Who Will Participate? | |
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Communication Protocol - How Will We Collaborate? | |
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Monitoring and Control Procedure - How Will We Know How We Are Doing Relative to the Project Plan? | |
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Ten Possible Additional Project Plan Elements | |
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Project Planning Versus Project Doing | |
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Executing the Project | |
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Keep the Project Team on Track | |
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Interact With Client, Owner, or Customer | |
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Communicate With Stakeholders | |
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Monitor Project Progress and Take Appropriate Actions | |
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Closing the Project | |
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Seek External Input | |
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Conduct Project Team Meeting | |
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Leverage the Just-Completed Project | |
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Closure: Common Sense and Self Discipline | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Project Management: Critical Path Method and Scope Creep | |
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This Chapter Relative to the Preceding Chapter | |
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The Critical Path Method | |
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Introduction: The Four Schedule Questions | |
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Alternative Scheduling Methods | |
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Network Fundamentals | |
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Critical Path Method Steps | |
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Example Application of the Critical Path Method | |
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Tips for Determining Tasks | |
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Some Observations about the Critical Path Method | |
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Review of Earlier Schedule Questions | |
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Closing Thoughts about the Critical Path Method | |
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Scope Creep | |
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Two Types of Scope Creep | |
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Consequences of Uncompensated Scope Creep | |
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Drivers of Uncompensated Scope Creep | |
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Doing Something Extra: The Platinum Rule | |
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Relevance to You as a Student | |
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Preventing Uncompensated Scope Creep | |
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Resolving Uncompensated Scope Creep | |
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Ideas for Clients, Owners, and Customers about Avoiding Uncompensated Scope Creep | |
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Closing Thoughts about Scope Creep | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Quality: What Is It and How Do We Achieve It? | |
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Everyone Is for It! | |
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Quality Defined | |
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Quality as Opulence | |
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Quality as Excellence or Superiority | |
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Quality as Meeting All Requirements | |
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A Caution for Engineers and Other Technical Personnel | |
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Quality Control and Quality Assurance | |
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Suggestions for Developing a Quality Seeking Culture | |
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Strive to Understand Client, Owner, and Customer Wants and Needs | |
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Define the Other Project Requirements | |
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Assess and Manage Risk | |
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Think Upstream, Not Downstream | |
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Create, Use, and Continuously Improve Written Guidance for Repetitive Tasks and Processes | |
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Expect Each Person to Check His or Her Work | |
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Arrange for External Reviews | |
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Reduce Cycle Time | |
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Tools and Techniques for Stimulating Creative and Innovative Thinking | |
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The Need for and Value of Tools and Techniques | |
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Create and Innovate Defined | |
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Brainstorming | |
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Mulitvoting | |
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Strengths-Weaknesses-Opportunities-Threats | |
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Stakeholder Input | |
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Process Diagramming | |
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Fishbone Diagramming | |
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Pareto Analysis | |
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Problems-First Meetings | |
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Mind Mapping | |
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Ohno Circle | |
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Metrics | |
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Freehand Drawing | |
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Take a Break | |
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Closure: Commit to Quality | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Design: To Engineer Is to Create | |
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The Root of Engineering | |
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This Chapter's Approach | |
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Design in the Context of Major Engineering Functions | |
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Four Engineering Functions | |
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Interaction | |
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"Back-of-the-Envelope" Sketches and Calculations | |
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Design Phases | |
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Hard and Soft Results | |
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The Disproportionate Impact of the Design Function | |
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Design in Terms of Deliverables | |
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Drawings | |
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Technical Specifications | |
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Non-Technical Provisions | |
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Design as Risky Business | |
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Design as a Personally-Satisfying and People-Serving Process | |
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More Than Applied Science | |
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Aspiring to Creativity and Innovation | |
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The Words "Engineer" and "Create" | |
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Closing Thoughts About Design | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Building: Constructing and Manufacturing | |
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The Engineer as Builder | |
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Constructing | |
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Importance of Constructing | |
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What Gets Constructed and How? | |
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Roles of Engineers in Constructing | |
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Trends in Constructing | |
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Manufacturing | |
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Importance of Manufacturing | |
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What Gets Manufactured and How? | |
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Roles of Engineers in Manufacturing | |
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Trends in Manufacturing | |
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Differences between Constructing and Manufacturing | |
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Closing Thoughts about Constructing and Manufacturing | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Basic Accounting: Tracking the Past and Planning the Future | |
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Relevance of Accounting to the Engineer | |
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The Balance Sheet: How Much Is It Worth? | |
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Personal Balance Sheet | |
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Business Balance Sheet | |
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The Income Statement: Inflow and Outflow | |
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Personal Income Statement | |
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Business Income Statement | |
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Relationship between the Balance Sheet and the Income Statement | |
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Accounting for Your Future | |
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Estimating the Necessary Net Worth at the End of Your Earning Phase | |
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Accumulating the Necessary Net Worth by the End of Your Earning Phase | |
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Is This Overkill? | |
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The Impact of Time Utilization Rate and Expense Ratio on Profitability in the Consulting Business | |
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Utilization Rate and Expense Ratio | |
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Analysis of a Consulting Firm's Income Statement | |
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Sensitivity of Profit to Time Utilization and Expense Ratio | |
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The Multiplier | |
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The Multiplier as an Indicator of Cost Competitiveness? | |
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Reducing the Multiplier | |
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Caveat about Cost and Consultant Selection | |
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The Income Statement as Part of the Business Plan for a Consulting Firm | |
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Project Overruns: Implications for Profitability and Personnel | |
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Concluding Thoughts about You and Accounting | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Legal Framework | |
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Why Law for Engineers? | |
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Legal Terminology | |
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Changing Attitudes: Forewarned is Forearmed | |
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Liability: Incurring It | |
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Liability: Failures and Learning from Them | |
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Collapse of Hotel Walkway | |
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Other Failures | |
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Liability: Minimizing It | |
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Insurance: Financial Protection | |
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Organizational Preventive Practices | |
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Personal Preventive Practices | |
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Maintaining Perspective on Liability Minimization | |
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Legal Forms of Business Ownership | |
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Sole Proprietorship | |
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Partnership | |
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Corporation | |
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Closure | |
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Concluding Comments about the Legal Framework | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Ethics: Dealing with Dilemmas | |
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Inevitable Ethical Dilemmas and Decisions | |
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Defining Ethics | |
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Definitions | |
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Distilling the Definitions | |
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Teaching and Learning Ethics | |
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Legal and Ethical Domain | |
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Codes of Ethics | |
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Introduction to Codes: What They Are | |
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Engineering Society Codes of Ethics | |
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Ethics Codes for Other Professions | |
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Business Codes of Ethics | |
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Government Codes of Ethics | |
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University Codes of Ethics | |
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Codes Cannot Anticipate All Circumstances | |
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Dealing with Ethical Dilemmas: Using Codes and Other Resources | |
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Ethics Codes | |
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Advice of Experienced Personnel | |
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A Nine-Step Individual or Group Process | |
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A Systematic Group Process | |
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Application of Moral Imagination | |
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Case Study: Discovering a Major Design Error after Construction Is Complete | |
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Design and Construction | |
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Post-Construction Discovery | |
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The Engineer's Actions | |
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What Happened to LeMessurier? | |
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Concluding Thoughts: Seeing Sermons | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Role and Selection of Consultants | |
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Consultant Defined and Why You Should Care | |
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The Meanings of Consultant | |
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Why You Should Care | |
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Why Retain a Consultant? Let's Do It Ourselves! | |
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Characteristics of Successful Consultants | |
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Consultant Selection Process | |
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Cost Versus Quality | |
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Price-Based Selection | |
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The Ideal Selection Process | |
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Qualifications-Based Selection | |
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Steps in the Selection Process | |
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Welcome Exceptions | |
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Summing Up the Consultant Selection Process | |
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Price-Based Selection: Three Costs to the Consultant | |
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Offering Less Than We Could | |
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Further Reduction in Profit | |
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Damaged Reputation | |
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Closing Thoughts | |
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Conclusions about the Role and Selection of Consultants | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Marketing: A Mutually-Beneficial Process | |
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Consider Your View of Marketing: Are You Carrying Some Baggage? | |
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Chapter's Scope | |
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The Economic Motivation for Marketing Professional Services | |
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Marketing and Selling: Different but Related | |
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A Simple, Powerful Marketing Model | |
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The Model | |
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Applying the Model | |
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Caution: Respect the Order and Invest Time Wisely | |
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Marketing Techniques and Tools | |
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Create a Personal Marketing Plan | |
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Learn the Marketing Language | |
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Schedule Marketing Tasks | |
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Find Common Ground | |
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Earn Trust | |
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Ask-Ask-Ask: The Power of Questions | |
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Talk to Strangers | |
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Stress Benefits, Not Features | |
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Focus on Existing Clients, Owners, and Customers | |
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Help to Establish Multiple-Level Links | |
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Proactively Establish the Next Step | |
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Selectively Share Data, Information, and Knowledge | |
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What Works and What Doesn't Work | |
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Marketing Concluding Comments | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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The Future and You | |
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What Does the Future Hold? | |
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The World You Will Work In: Same Role but New Stage | |
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After the Knowledge Age, the Conceptual Age? | |
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After The Knowledge Age, the Opportunity Age? | |
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After The Knowledge Age, the Solving Wicked Problems Age? | |
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Additional Views of the World Stage | |
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Implications for You | |
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How to Lead Change | |
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Encounter a Leadership Gap | |
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Move Beyond Being the Thermometer: Also be the Thermostat | |
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Define the Situation: What, Why, Who, How, and When? | |
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Recognize Widespread Resistance to Change | |
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Practice Paradigm Pliancy: Prevent Paradigm Paralysis | |
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Appreciate the Movers-Movables-Immovables Structure | |
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Work Effectively With theMovers,Movables, and Immovables | |
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Expect the Awareness-Understanding-Commitment-Action Cascade | |
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Test Drive Terminology | |
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Learn Why Change Efforts Fail | |
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Adopt Change Principles and a Change Process | |
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Concluding Thoughts about You and the Future | |
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Cited Sources | |
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Annotated Bibliography | |
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Exercises | |
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Engineering your Future Supports ABET Basic Level Criterion 3 | |
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Engineering Your Future Supports ABET Program Criteria for Civil and Similarly-Named Engineering Programs | |
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Engineering Your Future Supports the Civil Engineering Body of Knowledge | |
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Index | |
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About the Author | |