Professional Engineer

Engineers and technical professionals often find themselves overworked, undervalued, or unsure about next steps. The Intentional Engineer helps you break out of autopilot and design a purpose-driven career aligned with your strengths, values, and long-term goals. In this actionable and inspiring guide, leadership coach Jeff Perry shares practical frameworks and mindset tools that have helped thousands of professionals transform their careers.

Described as the "ultimate engineer" during his career at NASA, George M. Low was a visionary architect and leader from the agency's inception in 1958 to his retirement in 1976. As chief of manned spaceflight at NASA, Low was instrumental in the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs. Low's pioneering work paved the way for President Kennedy's decision to make a lunar landing NASA's primary goal in the 1960s.

In the gripping Never Panic Early, Fred Haise, Lunar Module Pilot for Apollo 13, offers a detailed firsthand account of when disaster struck three days into his mission to the moon. An oxygen tank exploded, a crewmate uttered the now iconic words, “Houston, we’ve had a problem here,” and the world anxiously watched as one of history’s most incredible rescue missions unfolded. Haise brings listeners into the heart of his experience on the challenging mission—considered NASA’s finest hour—and reflects on his life and career as an Apollo astronaut.

Unlock Your Creative and Professional Potential with Claude AI Are you ready to revolutionize your writing process and boost your productivity in the age of AI? The way we write and work is changing rapidly, and generative AI is at the forefront of this transformation. But how can you effectively harness this powerful technology without losing your unique voice or getting overwhelmed? "Claude AI for Writers & Professionals: Enhance Your Creativity and Productivity" is your essential guide to mastering Anthropic's groundbreaking AI, Claude 3.7 Sonnet. This practical book, written in ...

No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio, or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce. The Way Home is a modern-day Walden - an honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life lived in nature without modern technology. Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Man, explores the hard-won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging, and fishing.

What happens when something is sucked into a black hole? Does it disappear? Three decades ago, a young physicist named Stephen Hawking claimed that it did - and in doing so, put at risk everything we know about the fundamental laws of the universe. Leonard Susskind and Gerard 't Hooft realized the threat and responded with a counterattack that changed the course of physics.

With 30 years of backcountry patrol experience in Florida, Bob Lee has lived through incidents of legend, including one of the biggest environmental busts in Florida history. His fascinating memoir reveals the danger and the humor in the unsung exploits of game wardens.

After years of prosecuting hard-core criminals, rising legal star Alan Bell took a private sector job in South Florida's newest skyscraper. Suddenly, he suffered such bizarre medical symptoms, doctors suspected he'd been poisoned by the Mafia. Bell's rapidly declining health forced him to flee his glamorous Miami life to a sterile "bubble" in the remote Arizona desert.

Without John C. Houbolt, a mid-level engineer at NASA, Apollo 11 would never have made it to the moon. Top NASA engineers on the project, including Werner Von Braun, strongly advocated for a single, huge spacecraft to travel to the moon, land, and return to Earth. It's the scenario used in 1950s cartoons and horror movies about traveling to outer space. Houbolt had another idea: Lunar Orbit Rendezvous. LOR would link two spacecraft in orbit while the crafts were travelling at 3,600 miles an hour around the moon. His plan was ridiculed and considered unthinkable.

Few subjects are more fundamental to modern life than electrical power. The systems that generate, transport, and distribute electricity are among the most essential contributors to modern industry, development, and everyday living. As energy demand grows and, with it, the electric power industry, more and more non-electrical professionals must make important policy and administrative decisions regarding the systems that power our world.

For six years Jim and Jamie Dutcher lived intimately with a pack of wolves, gaining their trust as no one has before. In this book the Dutchers reflect on the virtues they observed in wolf society and behavior. Each chapter exemplifies a principle, such as kindness, teamwork, playfulness, respect, curiosity, and compassion. Their heartfelt stories combine into a thought-provoking meditation on the values shared between the human and the animal world.

Passing the Civil PE – Water Resources & Environmental Depth Exam requires more than memorizing formulas. It demands the ability to solve real engineering problems quickly, accurately, and under exam-day pressure. This comprehensive study guide gives you everything you need to succeed—practice-heavy chapters, reference drawings, real-world design workflows, and multiple full-length exams with detailed, step-by-step solutions. Built around the official NCEES exam specifications, this book covers the full WR&E domain: hydrology, open channel flow, hydraulic structures, stormwater, ...

Pass the PE Civil: Construction Depth exam with confidence. This comprehensive, practice-driven study guide provides the exact knowledge, skills, and problem-solving strategies needed to succeed on the NCEES CBT exam. Built with a real-world construction engineering perspective and packed with exam-style practice questions, detailed solutions, and full technical drawings, this book gives you everything you need to prepare efficiently and effectively. Designed for both early-career engineers and experienced professionals returning to the licensure path, this guide removes the guesswork from ...

Launch Your Career: Prepare for the Google Cloud Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer Certification Go beyond memorization and truly master the practical skills tested on the Google Cloud DevOps Engineer exam. Our extensive practice test collection is engineered to challenge your understanding and prepare you for the complex scenarios you'll face. Why Our Practice Tests Are Different: Exam-Replicate Questions: 150 questions updated to reflect the latest exam format and content, ensuring there are no surprises on test day. Deep-Dive Explanations: Each question includes a comprehensive ...

This comprehensive study guide is your key to unlocking success in the FE Civil Exam. Designed with both aspiring and current engineers in mind, it walks you through every essential topic, from mathematics and structural analysis to fluid mechanics and transportation engineering. It offers more than just theoretical knowledge—it’s packed with practical advice, study strategies, and detailed explanations that will make the complex exam content approachable and manageable.

Prepare to pass the NCEES FE Civil Engineering Exam with confidence. This comprehensive exam-prep book delivers everything you need to succeed on your first attempt—full-length practice exams, detailed worked solutions, and a realistic CBT-style testing experience modeled after the official NCEES exam format. Engineered specifically for the FE Civil discipline, this book provides: • 2 Full-Length FE-Style Practice Exams (110 questions each) – Experience true exam pacing, question style, scope, and difficulty, just as you will at the testing center. • Detailed Step-By-Step Solutions ...

Reporter Sam Kean reveals the periodic table as it’s never been seen before. Not only is it one of man's crowning scientific achievements, it's also a treasure trove of stories of passion, adventure, betrayal, and obsession. The infectious tales and astounding details in The Disappearing Spoon follow carbon, neon, silicon, and gold as they play out their parts in human history, finance, mythology, war, the arts, poison, and the lives of the (frequently) mad scientists who discovered them.

Get Work Done with Claude Cowork: A Complete Beginner's Guide to Anthropic's AI Desktop Agent Stop asking AI for advice. Start having AI do the work. Most people use AI the same way they use a search engine — they ask a question, read the answer, and then go do the task themselves. Claude Cowork changes that entirely. It doesn't just tell you how to organize your files, write your report, or research your competitors. It opens your folders, reads your documents, makes decisions, and delivers finished results — while you focus on something else. This book is your complete guide to ...

In the 1970s, amid severe cutbacks in physics funding, a small group of underemployed physicists in Berkeley decided to throw off the constraints of academia and explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the “Fundamental Fysiks Group,” they pursued a freewheeling, speculative approach to physics. Some dabbled with LSD while conducting experiments. They studied quantum theory alongside Eastern mysticism and psychic mind reading, discussing the latest developments while lounging in hot tubs.

Embark on a transformative journey with "Master AWS DevOps Engineer Professional Certification: Ultimate Exam Prep Guide." This comprehensive ebook is your ultimate resource for mastering the art of AWS DevOps, transforming the way you approach cloud automation, configuration management, monitoring, and security. Whether you're an experienced IT professional or just beginning your DevOps journey, this guide is designed to propel you toward certification success and real-world expertise. More than a study guide, this ebook is a practical toolkit filled with 500 real-world exam-style ...