"Memoirs of an Engineer in America and Beyond", is the painful experience the author Gerald Aksheirian had endured in the service of many engineering firms in US he has been employed within various capacities as an electrical power engineer. He also describes his experience with foreign firms Aramco/SCECO, and Serete French corporation in Saudi Arabia. While serving at many engineering firms in US, he came to observe to his utter shock overwhelming corruption and incompetence were preserving and promoting self-interest to the utter detriment of the firm engineers are employed at, is the only driving force in the struggle for survival. Being utterly gullible and patriotic, It took the author many years of service and suffering to realize that engineers in US, are not to serve the public interests, or the nation, neither the firm they are employed at, not even "humanity" as he always came to believe as many also proclaim, but to their "boss", the only one to whose pleasure they are to serve. It is the law.
All events described in this book are real which the author had to face over many years of his services at engineering consulting firms, electric power utility companies, and manufacturing industries. Case stories the author describes and analyzes have the main purpose of inviting attention to the labor laws and cultural, and institutional setup engineers in the United States are subjected to inflicting dire consequences for the nation, US industry, and the very status of engineering professionals modern civilization depends on. The author describes many attempts he had undertaken to alter things for better understanding by those in power. All were to no avail! So, he decided to write a book on the subject, let us see what happens.
All events described in this book are real which the author had to face over many years of his services at engineering consulting firms, electric power utility companies, and manufacturing industries. Case stories the author describes and analyzes have the main purpose of inviting attention to the labor laws and cultural, and institutional setup engineers in the United States are subjected to inflicting dire consequences for the nation, US industry, and the very status of engineering professionals modern civilization depends on. The author describes many attempts he had undertaken to alter things for better understanding by those in power. All were to no avail! So, he decided to write a book on the subject, let us see what happens.
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