3 Actions Engineering Professionals Can Take to Build Their Personal Brands
Engineers should constantly be evolving in order to move forward in their careers by taking personal development efforts to enhance personal branding. Personal brands’ tools enable you to communicate and promote who you are and what you’re destined to do.
The Engineering Management Institute to Launch The Structural Engineering Podcast
Structural engineering, like most engineering industries, is constantly evolving with technical guidelines, new techniques, and updated standards. There are also new and exciting structural engineering projects being completed every day worldwide. This niche industry deserves its own podcast to cover these issues, and therefore the Engineering Management Institute (EMI) is excited to be launching The […]
Where Will You Be Five Years from Now in Your Engineering Career? – Ep 203
Five Years, 260 Weeks, 1820 days, 2,620,800 Minutes. What will you do with it? What could you do with it? Where Will You Be Five Years from Now?
Why Technical Skills Alone Won’t Get You That Engineering Job
Technical skills are the tools of the trade for engineers. If you want to find your perfect job, you can’t let your technical background do all the talking. In today’s hyper-competitive work environment, the winning formula for an engineer’s job application involves showcasing technical/hard skills, accomplishments, and soft skills.
Information Civil Engineers Should Seek Up-Front for Proposal Writing Success – Ep 118
In this Civil Engineering Podcast, I visit with Karen Morgan, P.E. who is the owner and founder of the AEC Proposal Institute. We talk about what information Civil Engineers need to seek up-front for proposal writing success. Karen discusses 5 specific points that you can use as a checklist to ensure you create winning proposals.
Maximizing Productivity Hacks for Engineering Professionals
Effective and successful engineers have a single trait in common. They are capable of effectively managing their time. Time is a precious commodity, therefore, maximizing productivity and your time can do wonders for your career and personal life.
How to Use Deadlines as Productivity Tools in Your Engineering Career and Life – Ep 202
Look at the things that are important to you and determine what the 80/20 drivers are in your career and life. Do you have deadlines around them? If it is important to you, you should have a clear and defined deadline.
How to Use a Grading System to Improve Your Engineering Performance
Do you demand a high level of performance from yourself? Establishing a habit of journaling will help you reflect on and better understand your performance, and ultimately help you make adjustments if needed.
The Importance of Staying Calm, Cool, and Collected as a Civil Engineering Professional – Ep 117
As a Civil Engineering, you are going to get in front of an audience at some point in your career. Staying calm, cool, and collected in these situations, will often time keep the audience calm as well.
Effective Delegation Techniques for Engineering Professionals
There was one skill that I heard frequently was lacking for both project managers and organization managers – effective delegation. It is the assignment of responsibility to another person to carry out a specific activity.