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.

How to Build Genuine Inclusion into Your Corporate Culture

As engineers, we like hard lines and definition in our daily lives and things we can easily see and measure. While these characteristics support effective work products, they are often the traits that inhibit us from excelling. Thus, the need to break out of our comfort zones and dig into diversity and genuine inclusion.

The Four Types of Problems Engineers Must Solve

In your work, problems engineers must solve will occur under four basic categories. Every engineer should have one Category 4 problem they have identified, defined and are committed to solving over the course of their careers.

Women in Engineering – We Still Have a Long Way to Go

We have realized through our research that there is a big difference in how women in engineering versus male engineers interact with their managers. And although certain improvements have been made in recent years, the fact remains that the world is still facing a significant deficit of female talent pursuing engineering careers.

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 […]

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.