Engineering Career

No journalist has ever been allowed into the ultrasecretive, highly pressured process of originating a perfume. But Chandler Burr, the New York Times perfume critic, spent a year behind the scenes observing the creation of two major fragrances.

Product development is a team sport, but most companies don't practice it that way. Designers and engineers should be connecting with marketing, sales, customer support, suppliers, and, most importantly, customers. The Art of Product Design explains the rise of "Open Engineering", a way of breaking down barriers and taking advantage of web-based communities, knowledge, and tools to accelerate the design and manufacturing processes. It explains how to establish open flows of information inside and outside an organization.

This book will shift your mindset from entrepreneur to EXITpreneur. After all, the majority of all the money you’ll ever make from your business comes on the day you sell—so it’s important to get the exit right. In The EXITpreneur’s Playbook, Joe Valley shares his experience in all facets of exiting an online business through direct experiences and real-life examples, with clear math and logic.

In Overcomplicated, complexity scientist Samuel Arbesman offers a fresh, insightful field guide to living with complex technologies that defy human comprehension. As technology grows more complex, Arbesman argues, its behavior mimics the vagaries of the natural world more than it conforms to a mathematical model. If we are to survive and thrive in this new age, we must abandon our need for governing principles and rules and accept the chaos.

The NFT marketplace has become so popular that the average NFT now sells for $3,257, according to NonFungible.com. In fact, the most expensive NFT picked up $91.8 million in 2021. But it’s not only the ease of selling attracting artists to NFTs. Or even the total control they have over their earnings.

Construction Scrum: How to Deliver Projects Easier, Better, and Faster is the first practical guide for construction professionals to implement the Scrum framework in the construction industry.

"How to Become a Cloud Engineer in less than 6 Months" has been specifically prepared to help foster a career in cloud computing for anyone wanting to move to a rewarding career in Cloud Computing. In this book "How to Become a Cloud Engineer in less than 6 Months" you’ll find cloud career insight from technical experts that is covered in detail for anyone new to cloud computing. This guide has been designed to help you prepare for a rewarding career as a cloud engineer. This book provides readers the following to get started preparing for a cloud career. What a cloud engineer role could ...

Katrina. Haiti. BP. Fukushima. The Great Recession. Those are just a few of the catastrophic disruptions the world has endured in recent years. As we try to respond to such crises, key questions arise: What causes one system to break under great stress and another to rebound? How much change can a complex system absorb while still retaining its purpose and function? What characteristics make it adaptive to change? Provocative and eye-opening, Resilience sheds light on the nature of change.

In Full-Contact Leadership, chiefs Flood and Avillo examine what makes a leader and, more importantly, what makes a leader effective in today’s fire service. This audiobook discusses the various types of leaders, how they communicate, discipline, delegate, motivate, and set expectations for the people they lead. Flood and Avillo also take a hard look at what hinders or blocks effective leadership and what steps to take to foster and instill leadership in your department.

Steered by Tom Szaky, recycling pioneer, eco-capitalist, and founder and CEO of TerraCycle, this audiobook explores current issues of production and consumption, practical steps for improving packaging and reducing waste today, and big ideas and concepts that can be carried forward. Intended to help every business from a small start-up to a large established consumer product company, this audiobook serves as a source of knowledge and inspiration. The message from these pioneers is not to scale back, but to innovate upward.

This text focuses on career management, and the importance of human interactions in the office. Although framed in the engineering environment, it provides observations on “people skills” relevant to all occupations. Employing an informal style, the author takes a mentorship approach by offering suggestions and anecdotes.

Tony Fadell led the teams that created the iPod, iPhone and Nest Learning Thermostat and learned enough in over 30 years in Silicon Valley about leadership, design, startups, Apple, Google, decision-making, mentorship, devastating failure and unbelievable success to fill an encyclopaedia. So that's what this book is. An advice encyclopaedia. A mentor in a box. Build is full of personal stories, practical advice and fascinating insights into some of the most impactful products and people of the 20th century.

Few organizations solve as many impossible problems as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and nobody knows more about leading rocket scientists to unlikely breakthroughs than Adam Steltzner. As the phase lead and development manager for EDL (entry, descent, and landing) of the Curiosity rover to Mars, Steltzner spearheaded the creation of one of engineering's wackiest kluges - the sky crane, which allowed the heaviest rover in the history of space exploration to land on Mars unscathed.

Laine Griffey brings over 20 years of expertise in quality management, with a strong background in both operations and quality. With a career spanning diverse industries from plastics to automotive, Laine has consulted with numerous companies in developing and enhancing their quality management systems. Having worked at every level from the production line to management, and performing tasks ranging from internal audits to supplier quality assessments, Laine is a recognized authority in the field.

Over the past several years, Hardwick, Vermont, a typical hardscrabble farming community of three thousand residents, has jump-started its economy and redefined its self-image through a local, self-sustaining food system unlike anything else in America.

For the larger-than-life personalities now staking their fortunes on the development of rocket ships, the new race to explore space could be a dead end, a lucrative opportunity - or the key to humanity's salvation. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos take center stage in this fast-paced narrative as they attempt to disrupt the space economy, feed their own egos, and maybe even save the world.

There’s no place for empathy in business was a belief Dr. Price, a logical, results-focused engineer held onto tightly, until a cascade of life-altering events provided her a new perspective. A perspective that recognized empathy as a critical skill that every leader must develop and employ to achieve success. Dr. Price’s empathetic leadership journey has been a multi-year process, one that continues today, and one that she willingly shares with you—the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Do you love cars? Do you love interesting stories about start-ups? Do you love crazy stories about founders and their ups and downs? This book, and the books in this series, are for you.

As a manager or executive working in the architecture, engineering, and construction industry, you’re under pressure to do more with less, reduce waste, produce faster, and still turn a profit.

The ultimate guide on how to use ChatGPT and prompt engineering to make money in ways you never thought possible. Learn how to stand out from the competition by using out-of-the-box strategies that no one else is doing yet. Don't wait until it's too late—get ahead of the game and using ChatGPT and prompt engineering techniques now.