Professional Engineering Practice (2nd Ed.)

This collection of essays provides key insights into the role of the professional engineer and in particular the nature of professional engineering judgement: what it is, how to get it, how and when to use it.The author also draws upon his experience in the process industries to answer some crucial questions, including: What obligations are placed upon you as a professional? What is the value of a bar stool to a professional engineer? Why Galileo’s trial in 1633 is still relevant to engineers today.

Harvey T. Dearden BSc CEng FIET FInstMC FIMechE FIChemE has worked in the process industry sector for over 35 years and has been employed by a variety of vendors, contractors, consultants and end users. He now manages his own consulting practice, Time Domain Solutions Ltd. (www.tdsl.org.uk), providing support in matters of process control and protection, and associated risk assessment and management concerns. He is known to many through his involvement with professional engineering institutions and his numerous papers and articles. Previous works include Functional Safety In Practice (2016) and Crowns & Coronets, Mitres & Manes (2016). He is married to a Welsh (Anglesey) girl who prefers not to be carried over the border and so he continues to live in North Wales, where there is hardly any process industry (!), but mountains, sea, broad horizons...