Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Before you pick a college major, find out what engineers actually do all day.Engineering graduates earn some of the highest starting salaries of any bachelor’s degree - an average of $81,518 for the Class of 2025, about 20% above the average for all majors (NACE). It is also easy to choose wrong: nearly one in three students who declare an engineering major change majors within three years (U.S. Department of Education).'Engineering' isn’t one career. It’s two dozen very different ones, and Should I Be an Engineer? puts them side by side before you commit. Written for high school and college students, it maps the five engineering families - Civil, Mechanical, Electrical, Chemical, and Software & Computer - and the 24 careers inside them, from structural and aerospace engineering to robotics, AI, and cybersecurity. Each career gets its own full-color pages, laid out the same way so you can compare:Then it answers the questions students don’t know to ask: what makes a good engineer (it’s temperament, not just math grades), how to size up a college program, what a PE license means for your career, how internships and mentors really work, and what the first years on the job look like.Written by someone who has done the job. James R. Martin, Jr., PhD, PE, is a licensed professional engineer and the president of an engineering firm, and he has taught engineering at the university level for twenty years. He chose engineering in high school without ever asking what engineers do every day - and earned three engineering degrees before he found out. This is the book he wishes someone had handed him.For parents, teachers, and counselors: a discussion guide in the back gives you the questions to ask so the decision stays the student’s own. No jargon and no lectures - just what a family needs to know before committing four years and a lot of money.A gift that gets used. Built to be flipped through and kept for years. Give it for a birthday, Christmas, or graduation - to the student who has already decided and wants to pick the right kind of engineering, and to the one who isn’t sure yet.
