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What Every Engineer Should Know:

Series Statement

What every engineer should know amounts to a bewildering array of

knowledge.

Regardless of the areas of expertise, engineering intersects with all the

elds that constitute modern enterprises. The engineer discovers soon after

graduation that the range of subjects covered in the engineering curriculum

omits many of the most important problems encountered in the line of daily

practice—problems concerning new technology, business, law, and related

technical elds.

With this series of concise, easy-to-understand volumes, every engineer

now has within reach a compact set of primers on important subjects such as

patents, contracts, software, business communication, management science,

and risk analysis, as well as more specic topics such as embedded systems

design. These are books that require only a lay knowledge to understand

properly, and no engineer can afford to remain uninformed about the elds

involved.