Gerald Aksherian

Gebundenes Buch

Memoirs of an Engineer in America and Beyond

Beschreibung

"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.

Autor

The author has studied electrical (power) engineering in Armenia, a small country in the Caucasus with 3,000 years of history. Upon graduation from academic courses in 1952, he served in various responsible positions in designing, engineering, construction, and managing maintenance and operation of a power network system. He also served in the neighboring Republic of Georgia. He moved to the United States in 1971 and was employed by many states on the East coast of the US - New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio, and Massachusetts. In 1980s he was invited to join as a lead project engineer for Saudi Consolidated Electric Company in Saudi Arabie followed by French Corporation SERET as supervising engineering manager for electrification of Al Jawf region of S.Arabia. Although the author retired in 2008, he never actually "retired", for he kept working to complete the engineering dictionary he had on his desk for the preceding years. He completed in the year of 2006 - a multivolume engineering dictionary dedicated to electric power generation, transmission, and distribution. In his Memoires, the author recounts with pleasure and pride many engineering and design problems "unsolvable" to others for years which he would solve within a few weeks. >The author alarmingly notes that among thousands of engineering students in US colleges Americans are a tiny minority. This obviusly is explained the author says by low, or rather by no status engineering is meant to enjoy in the United States.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Neil Investments Inc
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 284mm x 222mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 857g
• ISBN-13: 9780578295671
• ISBN-10: 0578295679
• Artikelnr.: 64362525