The Wiley Project Engineer's Desk Reference

SANFORD I. HEISLER is President of Heisler Associates, an engineering and project management consulting firm. He has almost forty years of design, field engineering, and project management experience in the power, mining, industrial, and aerospace fields and is a registered engineer in both Pennsylvania and California. He is an arbitrator for Large Complex Cases for the American Arbitration Association and is a guest lecturer at universities in the United States and abroad. He is the author of several other books, including The Wiley Project Engineer's Desk Reference.

THE PROJECT.

The Project.

THE ENGINEERING PROCESS.

The Engineering Process.

Design Control.

Engineering Organization.

PROJECT OPERATIONS.

Scheduling and Forecasting.

Estimating and Cost Control.

Material Acquisition.

Project Management.

International Projects.

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE.

Proposals.

Contracts and Legal Considerations.

Human Resources.

Business Operations.

Appendices.

Selected References.

Index.