Problem Solving for New Engineers : What Every Engineering Manager Wants You to Know

Title: Problem Solving for New Engineers : What Every Engineering Manager Wants You to Know
Author: Melisa Buie
ISBN: 1138197785 / 9781138197787
Format: Hard Cover
Pages: 262
Publisher: Productivity Press
Year: 2017
Availability: 2 to 3 weeks

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This book brings a fresh new approach to practical problem solving in engineering, covering the critical concepts and ideas that engineers must understand to solve engineering problems. Problem Solving for New Engineers: What Every Engineering Manager Wants You to Know provides strategy and tools needed for new engineers and scientists to become apprentice experimenters armed only with a problem to solve and knowledge of their subject matter.

When engineers graduate, they enter the work force with only one part of what’s needed to effectively solve problems -- Problem solving requires not just subject matter expertise but an additional knowledge of strategy. With the combination of both knowledge of subject matter and knowledge of strategy, engineering problems can be attacked efficiently. This book develops strategy for minimizing, eliminating, and finally controlling unwanted variation such that all intentional variation is truly representative of the variables of interest.

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Helps the reader:

  • Reduce avoidable experimental variation.
  • Quantify variation inherent in measurement systems.
  • Build a model of an experimental process space with intentional variation.
  • Design and create effective experimental strategies for managing variation.
  • Learn to effectively communicate technical information.

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Preface

Chapter 1 : The Great Universal Cook-Off
Chapter 2 : Eureka! And the Myths of Discovery
Chapter 3 : Experimenting with Storytelling
Chapter 4 : All Data is Not Equal
Chapter 5 : Oops! Unintentional Variation
Chapter 6 : What, there is no truth?
Chapter 7 : It’s Random, and That’s Normal
Chapter 8 : Experimenting 101
Chapter 9 :  Experimenting 201  
Chapter 10 : Strategic Design : Bringing it All Together
Chapter 11 : Where to Next?
Chapter 12 : One More Thing…

Index