Insider's Guide to Engineering

If you are an engineer, engineering student, or a regular person with engineering curiosity, The Insider's Guide to Engineering: An Exploration of Professional Secrets is for you! Written for all audiences interested in engineering, this book will inform or refresh you on the basics of the profession and clue you into interesting facts - things you don't know or perhaps forgot. Enjoy getting a better idea of why engineering is the way it is. You will:

• Discover why engineers are different than non-technical people

• Understand the different branches of engineering

• Find out how to become a professional engineer and why it is valuable

• Learn the steps in obtaining a patent

• Expose the secret: why engineers can never make as much as sales and businesspeople

• Identify what motivates engineers

• Observe a simple method to solve any technical problem

• Pick up some useful engineering acronyms to throw out at your next big meeting

• Consider and laugh at quotes about engineering

Author Luke Zollinger is a licensed professional engineer in mechanical and civil engineering (OR #87563PE). His engineering experience includes tandem rotor helicopters, bridges, heavy construction, structural engineering, and airport design. He currently is the chief engineer for a materials research and development company, which involves ballistic tests, blast testing, and other unconventional things. Sublimity, OR.