So You Want To Be An Engineer?

摘要

If you want to be an engineer- but want to know what you are letting yourself in for - what better way to learn than sitting down with one? Particularly one who has lived a long fruitful life in the profession, and is passionate about it. All the more, one who has lived through the development of a new, demanding and important field? If you can't do that, then the next best thing is to read Dr. Gareth Padfield's book: So You Want To Be An Engineer? A Guide to a Wonderful, Mysterious Profession, With Sketches from an Aeronautical Engineer's Album. This is an extraordinary book that is really several books in one. Although the focus is to address the engineering student, the book is also an autobiography of an industry-leading technologist and educator.