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Identifying actionable goals can be difficult if you don’t know what you want to achieve and if you don’t have a process in place.  As engineers, we know that every successful project has a clearly

Featured Guest Blogger: JC Ryan from MyCollegesandCareers.com Knowledge and skill will help you extend and expand your engineering career, but sometimes the squeaky wheel needs some amplifying in positive ways. Fortunately, engineers looking for ways

A great strategic planning tool used in business for analyzing an environment for a new project is the SWOT analysis:  Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats.  Business planners know that in order for a project to

Due diligence is as important to engineers as water is to a fish.  By definition, due diligence is any number of concepts or processes involving an investigation of a design, engineering calculation, contract, or some

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 2 of my soon-to-be-launched book Engineer Your Own Success: 7 Key Elements to Creating an Extraordinary Engineering Career: Your credentials represent measurable accomplishments in your career, which include

In military terminology, “being on-point” means to assume the first and most exposed position in a combat formation.  You’re out front, leading your team into hostile territory and therefore, fully switched-on and in tune with

This isn’t an article about time management.  If you want that, go to Amazon.com and buy one of the 20,985 books on the subject.  This is an article about investing your time.  Management implies control,

From my experience in the engineering industry, and really the corporate environment in general, I realized that there are two types of managers, I refer to them as managers and LEADERS.  There are leaders who

Did you ever take the time to stop and think, “What is my ultimate career goal?” It’s an open-ended question with tons of possible answers, but it will certainly force you to think about your

Featured Guest Blogger: Robert Mote Every major project carries out an exercise to determine the Lessons Learned for future projects based on the design and execution of the present project. When a project approaches maturation,

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