1st Edition
What Every Engineer, Scientist, and Technologist Should Know About Finance
0. Front Matter. 1. Why Engineers, Scientists, and Technologists Need Financial Literacy. 2. Basic Accounting and Financial Concepts. 3. Understanding Business Structures and Finance. 4. Business Models and Approaches. 5. Risk and Opportunity Management. 6. Project Cost Estimation and Budgeting. 7. Corporate Finance and Decision-Making. 8. Financial Modeling and Data Analysis. 9. Next Generation Financial Concepts and Strategies. Appendix A: Glossary.
Biography
Phil Laplante is a Professor Emeritus of Software and Systems Engineering at Penn State with more than 40 years of experience as a professor, practitioner, academic administrator, and consultant. He has worked in avionics, CAD, and software testing systems and he has published 40+ books and more than 300 scholarly papers. He is a licensed professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and a Fellow of IEEE, SPIE, and the Washington Academy of Sciences. From 2010 to 2017 he led the effort to develop a national licensing exam for software engineers. He received his B.S., M.Eng., and Ph.D. from Stevens Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Colorado.
