This text is designed to help the young engineer make the transition from student to practicing professional. It provides experience-based suggestions and helpful warnings to guide new engineers in taking the first steps to successful project leadership and group management. Contents include: Chapter 1: What Engineering Is; Chapter 2: The Engineer; Chapter 3: The Project and the Project Team; Chapter 4: Project Control; Chapter 5: The End Product: Drawings and Reports; Chapter 6: Problem Solving; Chapter 7: Laboratory Work and Experiment; Chapter 8: Design; Chapter 9: Manufacturing and Quality Control; Chapter 10: Research and Development; Chapter 11: Studies; Chapter 12: Systems; Chapter 13: Proposal Work; Chapter 14: The Project Engineer; Chapter 15: Human Relations in an Engineering Organization; Chapter 16: Engineers and the Marketing Function; Chapter 17: Professionalism, Self-Development, Education; Chapter 18: Creativity; Chapter 19: The Engineering Manager.