title: Engineering Your Future: The Professional Practice of Engineering, 3rd Edition
author: Stuart G. Walesh
description: <b>Stuart G. Walesh, PhD, PE</b>, is an independent consultant who provides management, engineering, and education/training services to private, public, academic, and volunteer sector organizations. With over forty years of engineering, education, and management experience in the government, academic, and private sectors, Walesh has worked as a project manager, department head, discipline manager, author, marketer, sole proprietor, professor, and dean of an engineering college.
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  Copyright © 2018 by Tony Munson
  
  
  All rights reserved.Written permission must be secured from the author to use
  or reproduce any part of this book, except for brief quotations in critical
  reviews or articles.
  
  
  The author may be contacted through his website at  
  [www.peopleskillsforengineers.com](http://www.peopleskillsforengineers.com).
  
  
  ISBN: 9781723996788
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
    
  
    
  
  
  To all the engineers who want to be more skillful with people, but don’t know
  where to start, this book is for you.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # **Contents**
  
  
  [**_Preface_**](part0004.html#pre)
  
  
  [**_Acknowledgments_**](part0005.html#ack)
  
  
  [**_Introduction_**](part0006.html#int)
  
  
  [Chapter 1: Why People Skills Are So Important to Engineers
  ](part0007.html#ch1)
  
  
  [Team Effectiveness ](part0007.html#ch1.1)
  
  
  [Money and Promotions](part0007.html#ch1.2)
  
  
  [Future Opportunities ](part0007.html#ch1.3)
  
  
  [Technical Ability Is Only Part of Your Suc