The purpose of this article is to highlight such basic engineering considerations and skills to be included in the engineering curriculum for all engineering and technical curriculum for developing “holistic engineering and entrepreneurship thinking”.

These considerations can then be applied to tackle any kind of engineering challenges with ease, for setting up of any industry, service organization. Once any engineer applies these basic engineering skills given in this paper to any project/venture/ system then it can be ensured that no major technical glitch has been overlooked/omitted

The following basic engineering considerations have been given in brief here and are taken from my forthcoming book on the same subject.  Full description of each consideration is beyond scope of this article due to its length.

 Following are the Sixteen Basic Engineering/Entrepreneurship skills

1.      Marketing

2.      Site Location & Layout

3.      Technological

4.      Design

5.      Operation

6.      Maintenance

7.      Standardization/Interchangeability

8.      Safety  

9.      Statutory Requirements

10.  Erection

11.  Implementation / Project Management

12.  Ergonomics

13.  Transportation Logistics

14.  Normal, Commissioning & Insurance Spares

15.  Financial Management.

16.  Contracts Management

 

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