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

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

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…

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