November 2017
Columns
Machinery: Soft skills and habits that all machinery professionals must develop—Part 2
In Part 1 of this column (Hydrocarbon Processing, September), I began discussing useful techniques that fall into the general category referred to as “soft skills.”
The Author
Robert Perez is a mechanical engineer with more than 40 yr of rotating equipment experience in the petrochemical industry. He has worked in petroleum refineries, chemical facilities and gas processing plants. He earned a BS degree in mechanical engineering from Texas A&M University at College Station, Texas, an MS degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin and holds a Texas PE license. Perez has authored numerous technical articles for magazines and conferences proceedings and has authored five books and coauthored four books covering machinery reliability. He is also the Technical Editor of Kane’s Rotating Machinery Dictionary.
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