A RAPID READING BOOK for FRESH ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATES

About the Book

This book is intended for graduate engineers fresh out of colleges—particularly from the not-so-well-known engineering colleges across the world in developing and underdeveloped countries—on the lookout for jobs. It is important for them to cross the first hurdle, that is, go through the selection process. Interviewers often assess the “width” of the knowledge apart from the “depth” since a combination of the two is what is relevant in real life. This book does not target those who intend to migrate to non-core areas, such as software development, etc. This is essentially for those who love electrical engineering and would try and stick to that profession. This is not intended to be a textbook. It is meant for relaxed and easy reading. It merely skims the top to lead you into the depth. This has been deliberately so designed to be reasonably simple and brief so as not to overwhelm you with “yet another book” but at the same time be comprehensive enough to cover the vast field in which you are likely to work for the next forty years. Enjoy reading this, and do not stop after you finished reading. Explore further.

About the Author

About the author N.V.Chandrasekharan graduated in Electrical Engineering from The University of Calcutta, India, in the year 1971 in the top rank, winning the Calcutta University Gold Medal. Later while pursuing a career in a Consulting Engineering Company in their New Delhi branch in India he acquired an MBA degree from the University of Delhi in 1987. Spanning a career span of over four decades, the author, prior to his retirement from active service in 2012 had opportunities to pursue Engineering in India & abroad in various roles in large Companies including a few MNCs in the Power, Oil & Gas and a few other sectors.  Consulting Engineering Companies – Development Consultants, India, The Kuljian Corporation, Philadelphia, USA and Parsons, Oman  Owner organization as Owner’s Engineer – Petroleum Development, Oman  Engineering division of large International Contracting Companies – Petrofac and Foster Wheeler The author’s experience has been in  Setting-up, growing and developing the functioning of Engineering Disciplines, in particular the Electrical Department.  Overviewing FEED (Front End Engineering Design) and Detail Electrical Engineering effort by a large team of Engineers & Designers in a multi discipline environment for Large projects in the Oil & Gas and Power Sectors to ensure delivery to Quality, Budget and Schedule with value addition in the technical areas  Conducting training programmes on various APPLICATION ENGINEERING ASPECTS The author – in the context of engineering organisations - can claim to be reasonably  Well versed in managing a large multidisciplinary team (had opportunity upto 1000 nos) typical in the Engineering offices that provide support to overseas offices.  Leading, developing and enhancing the capability of an Engineering organisation to deliver  Developing Vision statements, conducting workshops, setting-up Mission goals, tracking action plans and helping achieve them by setting up KPIs etc. typically required by an Engineering Organisation for sustaining long term growth. The author is currently a Senior Member of IEEE, an organisation where he has been a member since 1981. The author’s passion, arising out of his experience in assessing students fresh out of campus, is to help ‘ordinary’ fresh engineering graduates who are otherwise keen, to be “battle ready” to perform well in the selection process of various engineering organizations and improve their chances of bagging a job at the entry level in the ‘core’ engineering sector in ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING. The author resides with his wife Lata in Chennai, while his elder son lives with his wife and two children in Sydney, Australia, the younger son resides with his wife at Chennai.