Community Outreach Initiatives for Engineering Professionals
As an engineer, you can do a lot of good with your skills. Whether you want to travel across the world or stay in your own community, you can help develop solutions to some of society’s biggest problems.
How to Overcome Conflict with Your Fellow Engineers at Work
Conflict is inevitable in the workplace, but that doesn’t mean it’s always a bad situation. Instead, you can use conflict as an opportunity to prevent issues in the future or mitigate current problems on your team.
Redefining Business Development for Engineering Professionals
How do you make business development easier for you and more accepting for your clients? How do you make those type of meetings valuable to both you and your client so that each party feels their time wasn’t wasted? You do this by redefining business development.
How to Start Your Own Engineering Practice
Starting your own engineering practice is a rewarding experience, giving you control over your career. While it requires adding a few more tools to your toolkit, with a bit of planning, you will be on your way to running a successful business.
How Mechanical Engineers Can Give Back to Their Community
As a mechanical engineer (ME), you can look forward to the inherent rewards of a lucrative career. An in-demand job and even job mobility as mechanical engineers typically make above-average earnings here the United States. However, engineers today are looking for more than the monetary rewards that come with this dynamic role. That’s why many […]
Successful Employee Management for Your Engineering Startup
The number of engineers launching their own startup companies is increasing. More and more engineers are pursuing new entrepreneurial ventures with the dream of becoming their own boss, launching their own product or services, and making a dent in their industries. This has highlighted something that is critical to startup success: employee management, which is […]
Does Work-Life Balance Exist? A Myth or a Reality?
In today’s fast-paced world, maintaining a work-life balance requires creativity, passion for work, and a contemporary way of thinking. As corporate life stretches to late night hours, many successful employees have started to figure out ways to mingle their work life with their personal life, so that they are able to fulfill their commitments to both.
One Trick for Making Better Engineering Decisions
The top person in any organization must be a decision-maker. Ideally, this person would be good at making engineering decisions on a daily basis.
The Engineering Management Institute Launches Women in Civil Engineering Podcast Series
The Engineering Management Institute is thrilled to announce that we’ve launched a new and exciting series on The Civil Engineering Podcast entitled Women in Civil Engineering to feature some of the great women working in the field.
How Can Women Succeed in a Male-Dominated STEM Workforce
Women make up half of the workforce, but when it comes to the positions at the top, we have a long way to go. Women need to pick their battles when it comes to dealing with coworker and employer demands for performing gender-specific labor.