Century Engineers Moving at Internet Time

1 21ST-CENTURY ENGINEERS MOVING AT INTERNET TIME 

This change in work life has been as rapid as it has been dramatic, and the job here is to survey those nontechnical skills essential to being a successful engineer in tlie 21st century. As opposed to the Cold War engineer, we call the ideal engineer of our times an entrepreneurial engineer, and here we interpret the word entrepreneur quite broadly. 

In file traditional sense of the word, today s engineer is more likely to find him or herself as part of a startup, replete with 13-hour workdays, a Blackberry, and stock options. But even when today s engineer works in more traditional settings, he or she is likely to find that both the job itself and effective career management require a more venturesome attitude and approach. Increased competition places enormous pressure on companies to continue to improve and 

The Entrepreneurial Engineer, by David E. Goldberg Copyright 2006 John Wiley Sons, Inc. 

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