Unwritten Laws of Engineering

The Unwritten LAWS OF ENGINEERING

by W. J. KING

This Article was scanned from an old, old document given to me by a project manager at one of my clients. I asuume it's copyright has lapsed. If not, I'm sure the ASME will have their lawyers in touch. [Yes, on April 25th 2006, so I am taking the pages down. I offered to send them the pages to publish on their site but they declined, sorry]. I hope they appreciate all the work it took to scan and OCR this document. I have put two pages from the booklet onto one HTML page. I am not offering a .PDF of this file until I get an OK from the fine and upstanding folks at the ASME. The modern address of the ASTM is:

ASME International

345 East 47th Street
New York, NY 10017-2392
U.S.A.

The remainder of the pages are from the original booklet. Note that the address at the bottom of this panel is obsolete.

W. J. King
Professor of Engineering
University of California
Los Angeles, California

THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS

29 WEST THIRTY-NINTH STREET NEW YORK 18, N. Y.

Contents:

PART 1

What the Beginner Needs to Learn at Once, 1

PART 2

Relating Chiefly to Engineering Executives, 15

PART 3

Purely Personal Considerations for Engineers, 34

Sorry, pages removes since ASME wants to sell it.

http://catalog.asme.org/books/PrintBook/Unwritten_Laws_Revised.cfm

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