Four Reasons You Must Seek Peer Support in Your Engineering Career and Where to Find It
I read a lot of blogs and books, and one of my favorite authors is Seth Godin. I particularly love his book Linchpin (affiliate link), where he discusses how to become indispensable in your career and why it is important. One of Godin’s recent posts, on July 21st, really hit home for me and is […]
PE Exam Prep Guide: How You Can Pass the PE Exam without Having to Study “Everything”
The following PE exam post is a guest post by TEM member Andy Lin, PE, SE. I was so blown away by its depth and detail that I have also added it to our Guides section on the website. Here at Engineering Management Institute, we highly recommend our friend and sponsor, PPI, for your PE exam […]
Are You Too Focused on the Wrong Thing in Your Engineering Career?
The following post is based on a true story of a walk my son and I took one evening a few weeks ago. It is meant to inspire you to focus more on the things that matter most to you in your career and your life. Not Your Average Walk My five-year-old son has a […]
The Best Way to Learn as an Engineer Is to Give Yourself No Other Option
When I left my engineering design career behind five years ago, I was forced to learn a lot of new things in a short period of time. I had to learn how to write and speak effectively, how to build and optimize websites, how to run a business, how to manage virtual employees, and more. […]
Five Strategies for Creating SPACE and Separating Yourself from the Field as an Engineer
It has only been in the last few years that I have become more interested in soccer or, as I guess it is better known around the world, Fùtbol. The sport, which features the very simple objective of putting a ball into a net, is actually much more complex than it seems on the surface, […]
Three Steps to Ensure that Your Engineering Salary is Higher than Most in Your Field
I have had a few questions from engineers lately concerning salaries in the engineering industry. The questions have been along the lines of, “Most engineering companies offer low salaries—what can I do to get a better salary in this industry?” First of all, I would say that not ALL engineering companies offer low salaries. Secondly, […]
How to Start an Engineering Company on Your Own and Grow It by Word of Mouth: An Interview with an Engineering Entrepreneur
The following is an interview with Glen Cooper, performed by one of our guest writers, Menno Gazendam. Glen Cooper is currently an engineer turned entrepreneur. He recently released a happiness-and-positivity app via the App Store called HappiJar. The app is designed to help us store our happy moments all in a single place, share them […]
Lessons Learned from Two Days with Engineering Leaders, and Laws on Life’s Outcomes
A few days ago, we put on our annual Institute for Engineering Career Development (IECD) meetup in Austin, Texas. The event consisted of three days of intensive learning sessions from over 15 accomplished speakers, engineering leaders, several social outings, and interesting tours. Of course, I can’t forget to mention the more than 50 motivated engineers […]
Questions and Answers from Engineering Students on Resumes and Interviews
For the past month, I have had the pleasure of speaking about resume writing and interview preparation for engineering students at the College of New Jersey ASME Student Chapter and the University of Memphis STEM club (MemphiSTEM). There was such a great turnout at both events and such great questions that I thought it would […]
How to Avoid Getting Caught Up in Career-Development Details as an Engineer
Here’s a HUGE challenge engineers face in their career development: they get caught up in the details of day-to-day tasks and forget to look at the big picture and how all of their actions affect it. This is totally understandable. Our job as engineers, from a technical standpoint, is to make sure that all of […]