Ten Essential Skills for Electrical Engineers

Engineers know that, as in any other discipline, getting a good job requires practical, up-to-date skills. An engineering degree provides a broad set of fundamentals. Ten Essential Skills applies those fundamentals to practical tasks required by employers. Written in a user-friendly, no-nonsense format, the book reviews practical skills using the latest tools and techniques, and features a companion website with interview practice problems and advanced material for readers wishing to pursue additional skills. With this book, aspiring and current engineers may approach job interviews confident in their grasp of the engineering skills that their employers seek.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: How to Design Resistive Circuits
Chapter 2: How to Prevent a Power Transistor From Overheating
Chapter 3: How to Analyze a Circuit
Chapter 4: How to Use Statistics to Ensure a Manufacturable Design
Chapter 5: How to Design a Feedback Control System
Chapter 6: How to Work with OP-AMP Circuits
Chapter 7: How to Design Analog Filters
Chapter 8: How to Design Digital Filters
Chapter 9: How to Work with RF Signals
Chapter 10: Getting a Job—Keeping a Job—Enjoying Your Work