101 tips for successful engineering Skills, knowledge and insight from real engineering experience

Do you want to understand more about why technology projects fail, and what you might be able to do about it?

Do you want to become a better engineer and be more effective at changing your world?

If you answer yes to these questions, this book may help you!

Through this book, I want to make you a better engineer.
The world is changing. Perhaps you've noticed? Technology trends are evolving towards newer, higher levels of complexity. Our engineering practice may not be keeping up. Don't take my word for it - look at the numerous budget overruns, delays, and functionality failures of big projects like space shuttles Challenger and Columbia, Berlin-Brandenburg Airport or London's Elizabeth Line underground railway.

Does it worry you too? Do you want to understand more about why technology projects fail, and what you might be able to do about it?

Over two decades of working to try to avoid project disasters on large engineering projects, I have picked up insights, skills, and knowledge that might provide some answers. This book is an introduction to a wide range of holistic engineering themes that complement an engineer's physics-based university education. It is a collection of short chapters that aim purely to achieve awareness of a topic, and provide pointers to sources of more detailed information.