Career eBooks

  • In The Best of Backscatter from Today's Engineer, Vol. 2, compiled from the Today's Engineer archives, distinguished author, editor and engineer Donald Christiansen tackles topics such as engineering vs. marketing, the MBA degree, Internet search technology, and others with wit, wisdom and a unique perspective. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • The first e-book in IEEE-USA's new Innovation Series, Doing Innovation:  Creating Economic Value -- Perspectives on Innovation, is written by Gerard H. (Gus) Gaynor, Retired 3M Director of Engineering, and President of IEEE's Technology Management Council. Topics in Perspectives on Innovation include:  An Historical Background of Innovation; Ambiguities Associated with Innovation; Basic Concepts Associated with Innovation; Continuum from Idea to Innovation; Types of Innovation; and How Innovation Takes Place. Member: $7.99 Non-Member: $9.99
  • In Perspectives on the Management of Technology, IEEE Technology Management Council President'Gus Gaynor provides an overview of the discipline of Management of Technology (MOT), including general background, current status of MOT, steps needed to develop MOT as a recognized academic discipline and provide a positive impact on industry operations. Managing any professional is an oxymoron. Why? Because it's difficult, if not impossible, to manage knowledge workers (in the classical sense) who are hired to demonstrate their thinking, their creativity, and their dedication in developing new products, new services and new processes. The best any manager can do is manage the activities of technology professionals and the interaction with other professionals in meeting organizational objectives. Technology managers must differentiate between managing technology professionals and managing their activities. What does this technology manager and technology professional relationship have to do with managing technology? Managing technology goes far beyond managing engineering operations: it requires a change in the mindset of the technology professionals and their managers; both need to expand their roles in meeting organizational results. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • Getting acquainted with the real world can be tough. However, if you anticipate the challenges ahead, your transition to working America will be much smoother. By learning and adjusting to the ways that the workplace is different than the classroom, you can get your career off to a fast and satisfying start. This e-book tells you what you need to know to succeed in the working world. Learn how to: Make a great first impression; Learn the company's culture; Understand that you are a new hire; Get to know people; and Master your job. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • Engineering the Art of Negotiation - Part 2: How to Handle Your Colleagues, shows you how to get ahead in your organization and experience more career satisfaction by building a better relationship with your colleagues using the principles and practices of interest-based negotiation. It also shows you how to get your colleagues to do what you want them to do by having a deep understanding of your own interests; a willingness to listen to your colleagues, flexibility in seeking solutions that satisfy their your needs and the needs of your colleagues .You can apply the lessons in these books to make your professional -- and your personal -- life less stressful and more rewarding. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • Launching Your Career: How to Find Your Perfect Job will help you define your personal, long-term career goals, and provide a practical roadmap to find your ideal job. This e-book provides tools and assessments to enable you to evaluate your personality and aspirations; find a great company to work for; choose the best position for you; and build your network.  Your career decisions will play a major role in determining your income, community status, your circle of friends, choice of a spouse -- and even your identity and sense of self-worth. This e-book will help you choose wisely and carefully, and get you started on the path to personal and professional fulfillment. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • Plug-In-Hybrids: Accelerating Progress Part 3: New Technology Challenges and Opportunities & The Need For Federal Action Now is the last of a three-part series of transcripts from the IEEE-USA-sponsored symposium, Plug-in Hybrids: Accelerating Progress 2007, considers new technology challenges and opportunities; and the need for federal action now. Panelists for this session of the symposium were Ric Fulop, Cofounder, A123 Systems; Philippe Gow, Vice President of Research, Development & Engineering, International Battery; Ken Marko, Engineering Research and Development Center, ETAS (Bosch); Donald Sadoway, Professor of Materials Chemistry, MIT; Keith Cole, Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, General Motors; Anne Korin, Director of Policy and Strategic Planning, The Institute for the Analysis of Global Security; Christopher King, Professional Energy & Environment Staff, U.S. House Science and Technology Committee. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • Engineering the Art of Negotiation - Part 1: How to Handle Your Boss is the first in a series of e-books demonstrating a practical approach to satisfying people's interests, including your own, through interest-based negotiation. In Part 1, internationally renowned negotiations consultant and trainer John G. Shulman shows you how you can get ahead in your organization and experience more career satisfaction by building a better relationship with your superior using the principles and practices of interest-based negotiation. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • The Best of Backscatter is a compilation of articles written by Donald Christiansen for the IEEE-USA Today's Engineer Online. These articles include: ABET's EC2000: How're We Doin' Reality and the Virtual Engineer; The Engineer: Professional or Business Practitioner?; About Working Together, or Not, Engineers as Inventors; Engineers Can't Write. Sez Who! Meetings Madness; Who's in Charge Here?; Inside Peer Review; Accidents Waiting to Happen; and Designing Junk and Old Dogs and New Dogs. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • This report on the 2008 IEEE-USA Unemployed Members Survey provides a comprehensive portrait of IEEE's unemployed U.S. membership and offers insights into the causes -- and remedies -- for loss of employment among technical professionals. The first section reports the percentage distribution or means response for each of the questions in the survey. The second reports the results of selected cross tabulations that focus on age and various aspects of employment status. The third reports the results of a multivariate analysis that focuses on the impact of age on the duration of unemployment when other factors are held constant. The final section compares some of the current results to those in 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002, 2004 and 2006.
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  • This e-book, written by George McClure, is a concise, step-by-step guide to compiling and organizing important personal information in advance of your or a family member's death, so that survivors can more easily handle necessary tasks following the loss of a loved one. [10 pages; 2.74 MB PDF download; Published May 2008.] Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • In this first volume of his World Bytes columns, compiled from the early editions of the Today's Engineer magazine archives, author Terrance Malkinson compels readers to reflect not only on their engineering careers, but on the world around them. He challenges his colleagues to look at the big picture, and think about what one's life means in terms of being both an engineer and a person. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • This report on the IEEE-USA 2006 Consultants Fee Survey provides the profile of typical self-employed and independent technical consultants, including their education, experience, business practices, median earnings and hourly fee. Copyright 2007. Member: $4.79 Non-Member: $5.99
  • Innovation means much more than just coming up with creative ideas; those ideas have to be put to work to create a benefit. Innovation can be seen as a journey that starts with setting a purpose or goal, and ends up with innovative achievement and new learning. All along the way, innovative thinking is required. So is knowledge. So are values. Renowned innovation authority William C. Miller provides a way to understand the process of innovation itself, and how people of any technical job can apply it to the challenges and opportunities they find in their day-to-day work. Member: FREE Non-Member: $7.99
  • The Best of Today's Engineer: On Innovation is a compilation of the IEEE-USA magazine's best articles on ' what it means, what it is, how to do it, what to think about it, how to achieve it, and how it might be affecting some aspects of engineering.' Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • Change is a given in an engineering career, and today's job market offers an incredible set of opportunities. This collection of articles from Today's Engineer can help you to handle almost any situation you might face in your career, whether you're changing projects, employers or career paths. Topics include the job search; planning for retirement; updating your resume; and current trends in engineering employment. Read this e-book, and then take advantage of whatever comes your way, be prepared, be aware, and be willing to take a chance to further your career satisfaction! Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • Change is a given in an engineering career, and today's job market offers an incredible set of opportunities. This collection of articles from Today's Engineer can help you to handle almost any situation you might face in your career, whether you're changing projects, employers or career paths. Topics include the job search; planning for retirement; updating your resume; and current trends in engineering employment. Read this e-book, and then take advantage of whatever comes your way, be prepared, be aware, and be willing to take a chance to further your career satisfaction! Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • This report on the sixth IEEE-USA Unemployed Members Survey provides a comprehensive portrait of IEEE’s unemployed U.S. membership and offers insights into the causes, and remedies, for loss of employment among technical professionals. The first section reports the percentage distribution or means response for each of the questions in the survey. The second reports the results of selected cross tabulations that focus on age and various aspects of employment status. The third reports the results of a multivariate analysis that focuses on the impact of age on the duration of unemployment when other factors are held constant. The final section compares some of the current results to those in 1995, 1996, 1998, 2002 and 2004. Member: FREE Non-Member: $4.99
  • As a consultant is preparing a proposal or negotiating a contract, one of the primary concerns is deciding how much to charge. To establish a fixed price or a fee that is both competitive and fair, the consultant needs to know what other consultants working in similar fields charge. In response to this need, the Alliance of IEEE Consultants Networks (AICN) conducts national fee surveys of its members. This report on the IEEE-USA 2006 Consultants Fee Survey provides the profile of typical self-employed and independent technical consultants, including their education, experience, business practices, median earnings and hourly fee. Member: $4.79 Non-Member: $5.99
  • In today's policy arena, some policy-makers take the advice of those with the most valid arguments and evidence, while others take the advice of those with the loudest and sometimes most controversial voices. This e-book attempts to fuse the two viewpoints, so that those with the most valid and well-supported arguments may be heard more clearly, allowing engineers to have their arguments heard, and most importantly, properly understood by present and future policy-makers. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • This e-book explains how to determine, and obtain your full value as a technical professional employee. Topics covered include how to benchmark your pay, negotiation strategies, the importance on non-salary compensation, how to evaluate a salary offer, and more. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • his e-book provides everything you need to know about creating and using resumes and cover letters, traditional to digital-age, in a convenient, easy-to-read format. Before you sit down to update your resume, learn the basics about format, content and delivery. Plus, how to avoid common blunders, and how to follow-up. This short primer will shorten the distance between you and your next great job! Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • This e-book provides a road map for the student preparing to enter the job market, what employers are looking for, how they will find you, how you can best find them, and what career paths are open to you as a new grad. Member: FREE Non-Member: $5.99
  • The strength of our nation will always be dependent on having highly competent and dedicated engineering and science professionals. We can enhance future economic strength by nurturing employer-employee relationships that will help retain and motivate experienced engineers, and will also continue to attract new talent. These IEEE-USA-developed Guidelines can help employers and employees to understand clearly and fully the conditions in the workplace of the current and coming years, and they can provide guidance toward behavior that will be beneficial to the country and the engineering profession. Regular discussion of these Guidelines among employers, managers, human resources personnel and engineers will provide a basis for enhancing their working relationships and will lead to good communication and cooperation in the workplace. Members: FREE Non-Members: $5.99
  • This how-to guide provides the language and process of strategy with the basic tools needed to understand and implement it. It intends to provide an accessible guide to strategy for non-strategists in high-technology companies. It may also provide enough guidance to set non-strategists on the road to becoming effective strategists. The guidebook's goal is not to provide you with answers to what good strategy looks like, but rather to show the processes and frameworks that enable strategists to create and implement good strategy. The book is structured into three sections that reflect the steps of the strategy process: analysis, synthesis and action. Members: FREE Non-Members: $5.99
  • What do you want from your work and your career? Whatever your career goals and interests, this planning tool will help you achieve greater satisfaction and make more of an impact at work. Because your career values and goals are unique, you are the only person qualified to determine the course of action that will best suit your interests. This guide will help you identify and tailor solutions to your unique needs, goals and work situation. Members: FREE Non-Members: $5.99
  • IEEE-USA's first eBook puts 65 pages of content for consultants right at your fingertips. Access information on how to start a local consultants network; how to make sure you get paid for your work; how to make the transition from marketing to paid consulting; IEEE-USA's 2004 Profile of Consultants; and a sample consulting contract. Read it online, or print it to keep with your reference books. Members: FREE Non-Members: $5.99

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