Canadian Professional Engineering and Geoscience: Practice and Ethics

Gordon C. Andrews, Patricia Shaw, John McPhee

Nelson Education Limited, Jan 18, 2018 - Biography & Autobiography - 504 pages

Canadian Professional Engineering and Geoscience: Practice and Ethics, 6e, is a unique and comprehensive text for today's Canadian students and practising professionals. Structured in five parts, the text is written in an approachable and engaging style that effectively covers practice and ethics topics while offering advice for readers to become effective professionals. The authors guide readers through professional licensing, practice, ethics, and environmental practice and ethics using history, case studies, examples, and images to bring the issues to life. The text devotes an entire chapter to preparing readers for the Professional Practice Examination (PPE), including practice questions to bolster success. Canadian Professional Engineering and Geoscience is up to date with Engineers Canada's practice and ethics syllabus and is the recommended study guide for this section of the PPE. The coverage in this sixth edition includes all provinces and territories of Canada and contains updated, new, and revised content and cases including the fascinating new case history: "Accidental Overdose: The Therac-25 Radiation Therapy Accidents." This edition has expanded its Employment, Management, and Consulting sections with new and relevant Canadian cases to keep readers engaged and connected to the content. Canadian Professional Engineering and Geoscience: Practice and Ethics is a vital professional resource for study and reference.

About the author

Patricia Shaw is a mechanical engineer and a graduate of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario (B.A.Sc.). She is a licensed Professional Engineer in Ontario, where she has worked as a project engineer for Monenco and as a sales engineer for Quadro Engineering Corporation of Waterloo. At Monenco, she developed engineering designs and analyses of co-generation facilities; she also worked on the construction planning for the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory, pictured on the cover. Ms. Shaw is currently the president of a software engineering company, MotionPro Inc. John McPhee is a Canada Research Chair and professor in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo. He is a graduate of Acadia University (Cert.A.Sc.), the Technical University of Nova Scotia (B.A.Sc.), and the University of Waterloo (M.A.Sc., Ph.D.). He is a licensed Professional Engineer (Ontario) and a Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada, the Canadian Society of Mechanical Engineers, and the Canadian Academy of Engineering. He has collaborated with many industry partners on dynamics and control, including Toyota, Maplesoft, Magna, Multimatic, Cleveland Golf, aboutGolf, the Canadian Space Agency, Bombardier, and the Canadian Sport Institute Ontario. Dr. McPhee has published more than 250 peer-reviewed papers, supervised 80 graduate students and researchers, and served as an expert witness to the Federal Court of Canada. In 2014, he received the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Synergy Award for Innovation from the Governor General of Canada.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Canadian Professional Engineering and Geoscience: Practice and Ethics
• Authors: Gordon C. Andrews, Patricia Shaw, John McPhee
• Edition: 6, illustrated
• Publisher: Nelson Education Limited, 2018
• ISBN: 0176764674, 9780176764678
• Length: 504 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Science & Technology; Science / Chemistry / Industrial & Technical; Science / Earth Sciences / Geology; Technology & Engineering / Engineering (General); Technology & Engineering / General