Engineering Project Management

Acknowledgments

I started working on actual engineering projects in 1976, and did so full time until the end of 2015, building systems for customers in aerospace and defense, but also civil government (at the federal, state, and city level), health‐care, the steel industry, the energy industry, higher education, entertainment, and others. My inventions are widely used in the consumer electronics industry (I sometimes say “used in a billion devices worldwide,” but a rigorous count is beyond my means). I also had the opportunity to build such systems for customers in several countries outside of the United States, to travel extensively in those countries, and even to live overseas for a couple of years on such an assignment. I draw upon those experiences in writing this book.

Over that period of time when I worked on these engineering projects, I benefited from many people, a few of whom I will name herein.

First, I want to recognize the many people who taught me how to be the manager of an engineering project. I will let Peter Karacsony, Dr. Joe Mason, and Jack Distaso represent the large number of people who helped me along this wonderful (but demanding) life path.

Next, my many customers, most of whom truly believed in being effective partners in the difficult enterprise of building complex engineered systems. LTG (ret) William Campbell will represent this group of great people.

My childhood friend Dr. Mitch Allen is an archeologist who spent much of his professional career ...